Emma Edits

Emma Edits Emma Edits is Emma Kate Tsai, a professional writer and editor for individuals and businesses. I have been writing and editing professionally for fifteen years.

My services include: business writing, business publication conceptualization, content and copyediting for any genre, publishing platform, book proposal, blog-to-book production, book and publication formatting, and academic editing. Because I am a creative writer, I can write creatively for businesses of almost any industry. I've done marketing writing for a research institute, an optometric netw

ork, a psychology journal, several publishing companies, a boutique hotel, a psychotherapist, and a landscaping firm, to name a few. I also edit memoirs, fiction, and business books, one of which was named a top business book by Inc. magazine. I am also a published author, which matters to some of my clients, and I graduated from the University of Houston with a business degree in marketing, and Rice University with a master's degree in liberal studies. For my thesis (what they called a capstone project), I wrote a full-length memoir about my experiences as an identical twin. I am currently rewriting that book in the hopes of getting it published.

04/27/2023

Every Poem Was a Secret
by Edward Hirsch
Every poem was a secret
struggle with himself,
every secret was a struggle,
a handwritten scrawl,
something joyous
or terrible,
a fragmentary
blood-soaked message
wrenched out of his body,
a longing for
some impossible harmony
tucked into a bottle
and tossed off the side of a cliff.
Reckless love poems, shocked elegies
drafted against death
looking for God—
some of them shattered
in desperation
on the rocks below,
but others, like this one,
bobbed away
on surging blue waves
for someone to find them.

02/23/2020

“Extraneous baggage”—that was how Albert Erskine, line editor of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, described slow sections of the submitted manuscript. McCarthy listened. He spent months revising and cond…

04/30/2018

Permanently by Kenneth Koch

One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.

Each Sentence says one thing—for example, "Although it was a dark rainy
day when the Adjective walked by, I shall remember the pure and sweet
expression on her face until the day I perish from the green, effective
earth."
Or, "Will you please close the window, Andrew?"
Or, for example, "Thank you, the pink pot of flowers on the window sill
has changed color recently to a light yellow, due to the heat from the
boiler factory which exists nearby."

In the springtime the Sentences and the Nouns lay silently on the grass.
A lonely Conjunction here and there would call, "And! But!"
But the Adjective did not emerge.

As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat—
You have enchanted me with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destruction of language.

03/15/2018
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