Editing Services
I provide professional proofreading and editing services for writers who desire to submit clean, concise, and compelling manuscripts that will attract publishers and intrigue readers.
Quality work, quick results.
Don’t settle for mediocrity.
Introductory Critique
E-mail 3-5 pages of your WIP (work in progress) to [email protected].
Cost is $50, which will be credited to your account if you sign a contract for one of the packages listed below:
Manuscript Proofreading
Fiction/Nonfiction
This option includes correction of typos and errors in Punctuation, Usage, Grammar and Spelling (PUGS), using Word’s Track Changes.
Cost: $35/hour or flat rate of $90 per 5,000 words
May include an additional reading of client’s revisions.
Substantive Editing
Fiction/Nonfiction
This option includes editing of content flow and organization as well as line-by-line editing of PUGS, using Word’s Track Changes.
Cost: $40/hour or flat rate of $110 per 5,000 words
Includes one or two additional readings of client’s revisions.
Developmental Editing
Nonfiction
This option includes big-picture content editing with analysis of flow and logic as well as gaps and redundancies in content. It may include content creation if client requests it.
Cost: $40/hour
Includes one or two additional readings of client’s revisions.
Proofreading Interior Print-Ready Files
Fiction/Nonfiction
This option includes correction of typos, PUGS and some formatting in manuscripts that have been typeset for publication by software such as Adobe InDesign and Affinity Publisher.
Cost: $35/hour
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Get in TouchMeet Denise
She loves books, biscuits, and barbecue.
Denise Loock
After 29 years of teaching English grammar and composition on the high school and college level, Denise became a book editor for Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in February 2012.
She is the author of two collections of devotions, Open Your Hymnal and Open Your Hymnal Again. Her work has also appeared in a variety of publications including The Upper Room, EFCA Today, Vista, and two Chicken Soup for the Soul compilations.
She is the founder of DigDeeperDevotions.com, a website dedicated to encouraging and enabling Christians to dig deeper into God’s Word.
Editing Experience
Denise has served as a general editor for LPCBooks (a division of Iron Stream Media) since February 2012. She has worked on several dozen books, including these award winners: Bury Me with My Pearls by Jane Jenkins Herlong, Running from a Crazy Man by Lori Roeleveld, and I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel by Craig von Buseck.
As a freelance editor, she helps both fiction and nonfiction writers produce professional-quality books—everything from lighthearted romance (The Invisible Woman in a Red Dress by Zoe McCarthy) to theology and apologetics (Equipped: Basic Training in Apologetics for Evangelism by Steven Garofalo).
She served as the editor of The Journey Christian Newspaper from December 2013–October 2016.
Professional Organizations
Denise is a member of the Christian Proofreaders and Editors Network (Christian PEN) and an instructor for the PEN Institute.
She is also a columnist for Christian Communicator, a publication of the American Christian Writers Association. Her column, “Mind Your MUGS” addresses grammar, usage, and sentence structure conundrums that all writers encounter.
Writing Credits
The Secret Place devotional magazine
The Upper Room devotional magazine
Penned from the Heart annual devotional compilation
Christian Communicator
Cross and QuillA
Cup of Comfort for New Mothers
Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat
The Lighthouse Christian Magazine
EFCA Today
Vista
Chicken Soup for the Soul:New Moms
www.christiandevotions.us
A collection of Denise’s devotions, Open Your Hymnal: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture With Song, was released by Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas in May 2010. A second volume of hymn devotions, Open Your Hymnal Again, was released in June 2012.
Open Your Hymnal: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture and Song (Lighthouse, 2010)
Open Your Hymnal Again: Devotions That Harmonize Scripture and Song (Lighthouse 2012)
Restore the Joy: Daily Devotions for December, co-authored with Nancy J. Baker (2018)
Restore the Hope: Devotions for Lent and Easter, co-authored with Nancy J. Baker (2019)
Contact
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