Eldes Tran – Editor

I provide professional, common-sense editing services to help you reach today’s global readers. Versatile in American- and British-English editing, I’m interested in non-fiction projects, literary fiction, women’s contemporary fiction, thrillers, middle-grade fiction, young adult fiction, and memoirs.

My current clients include start-up and traditional publishers, including HarperCollins UK, Wildtype Media and Epigram Books, and independent authors who span the globe, including in Australia, Germany, United States, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Britain.

-Oversaw a team of five editors and the list of 50 books a year for Singapore’s largest independent publisher known for its annual Epigram Books Fiction Prize
-Attended and spoke at the first conference of the Jieli-ASEAN Children’s Books Alliance in Nanning, China, attended by major Chinese and ASEAN publishers
-Spoke about editing, writing and publishing at Yale-National University of Singapore and LASALLE College of the Arts, and presented authors at book launches and Epigram titles at the biannual sales conferences
-Ran biweekly editorial meetings and Books In Progress meetings
-Managed house style guides, and manuscript submissions and evaluations
-Managed the summer and winter internship programs, including recruitment
-Worked on the editing and production of non-fiction, fiction and middle grade titles, and commissioned projects, coordinating with marketing, sales and design

Notable authors and titles included Pico Iyer, Jason Erik Lundberg, Boey Kim Cheng, Akshita Nanda, Paige Parker, Suffian Hakim, Ken Kwek, The Naysayer’s Book Club, The Parsis of Singapore, How to Cook Everything Singaporean and Homeless

-Developed and edited non-fiction, fiction, young adult, middle grade, early readers, children’s picture books, and commissioned projects
-Duties included structural editing, line editing, proofreading, indexing, evaluating manuscripts, selling books and moderating talks

-Front-line copy editor on articles and breaking news from Asia for
-Designed and layed out pages for news and business for all Asia print editions
-Edited and managed the mobile apps for The New York Times and NYT Now

-Edited original China and Hong Kong content, and world and business stories; extensive rewriting for Hong Kong news and youth sections
-Managed the home page and news sections based on real-time traffic analytics
-Monitored and coordinated with news desks on breaking news
-Developed style guide for, particularly rules dealing with social media

-Edited online and print content for business, metro, features and national sections