Emma Kate Tsai

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ABOUT EMMA KATE TSAI

Emma Kate Tsai is a communications professional, writer, editor, and English teacher. She has edited and written for individual clients and businesses, as well as coached authors until they found their best prose and intended story by analyzing story arc, flow, language, syntax, grammar, chronology, characterization, tone, voice, and conciseness. Edited books include Andrea Kates\'\"Find Your Next,\" Steve Santagati\'s \"The Code of Honor,\" and Chris Cander\'s upcoming \"Whisper Hollow.\" Emma has edited memoir, business, non-fiction, fiction, and young adult. For businesses, she has written marketing collateral, blog posts, web content, and ad copy, and managed social media. Past clients include Business Genome, The Lancaster Hotel, and Myron Steves.Her career began at Plunkett Research, a business industry guide publisher where she researched and edited several publications that profiled particular industries, eventually marketing all publications on bookselling sites and via direct mail marketing campaigns. She then supported several businesses in a marketing communications role. For her clients and employers, Emma has created and implemented online marketing strategies, laid out business plans, built brand, edited blog posts and maintained corporate image through social networking, and annotated publications to maximize marketing impact. She has also worked in the academic realm in editing and administration of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.A native Houstonian, Emma holds a bachelor’s of business administration in marketing from the University of Houston, and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Rice University. Her artistic interests lie in memoir and personal essay, and her creative writing has been published in anthologies and several online publications. Her full-length memoir,\"Say My Name,\" is in draft form.