Emma Tsai – Editor

Facilitate the effective functioning of peer review in the Journals Back Office (JBO) through production in the Production Back Office (PBO) for the American Psychological Association, the editor's office, the offices of the associate editors, and APA Journals Department for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Manage the manuscript submission process, assist with the peer review process, communicate with editorial staff, reviewers, and authors as conditions warrant, including overseeing the transition of new associate editors and providing training on the JBO software. Process manuscripts into production, including securing all publications/permissions forms, all final manuscript and figure files, and transmitting all materials through the JBO to PBO for production. Edit action letters and manuscripts prior to submission to PBO for production. Confirm APA formatting for all manuscripts.

Write and compile consultation reports based on store location assessments performed by the director of operations for statewide optical chain. Edit corporate communication materials. Plan corporate annual meeting: logistics with facility, promotion to exhibitors/sponsors and attendees, and production of collateral.

Plan and execute regional and individual marketing and advertising activities for Houston, Beaumont, and Austin markets. Present quarterly marketing campaigns at committee-level and market-level. Edit corporate marketing brochures. Edit corporate marketing brochures. Manage production of newsletters for store location staff and patients.

Layout selected marketing brochures and newsletters. Manage production of publications. Coordinate direct mail marketing. Update and monitor customer database regularly. Train new editorial research assistants.

Research and write company profiles, and edit book content for business industry guides: Plunkett's Retail, Health Care, InfoTech, Financial Services, Engineering & Research, Energy, Entertainment & Media, Biotech & Genetics, and Telecommunications Industry Almanacs; E-Commerce & Internet Business Almanac; On-Line Trading, Finance & Investment Web Sites Almanac; and The Almanac of American Employers and Companion to the Almanac of American Employers.

Copyedit, content edit, developmental edit, and offer author guidance in a number of genres. Edited books include Andrea Kates’ Find Your Next (published by McGraw-Hill, number two on Inc. Magazine’s best business book list), Steve Santagati’s Code of Honor: The Ten Commandments That Define All Bad Boys and Bad Girls (Santagati’s previous book The Manual: A True Bad Boy Explains How Men Think, Date, and Mate—and What Women Can Do to Come Out on Top is a New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller), Chris Cander’s Whisper Hollow (publication by Other Press forthcoming in 2015), and David Weekley’s How to Buy a Home without Getting Hammered; a number of self-published memoirs (Jay Rusovich’s Urban Dystrophy: The Perverse Truths about Mid-Life in the Big City, Carone Cobden’s Road to Iboga, Tom Peery’s So, Dad, What Makes a Man?, a priesthood memoir by an anonymous author entitled Mending Broken Dreams, and Anna Jorgensen’s Me: A Rewrite); three legal textbooks by sports attorney Patrick K. Thornton: Sports Law and Sports Ethics, published by Jones and Bartlett, and Legal Decisions That Shaped Modern Baseball, published by McFarland Publishing; a blog-inspired music industry publication written by Gary Powell, Grammy-nominated producer: Good Boys Do Fine, Always; a number of self-published business management publications by Joe M. Powell, former founder of world renowned architectural firm PDR; and Charles Thomsen’s Program Management, a strategy book about the construction industry written by former CEO of 3D/International.

TECHNICAL
Edit technology-focused blog posts, white papers, and documentation for Air Liquide and Pinnacle Management.

ACADEMIC
Copyedit engineering, science, psychology, education, and humanities dissertations and graduate program admissions materials.

COPYWRITING
Write copy in the form of web content, marketing newsletters, prospect and client marketing communications, weekly blogs, and related collateral. Clients include Clark, Burnett, Love & Lee, LP (plaintiff law firm); Writespace (a writing workshop space), Doug Gehrman (Life Under Construction blog about spiritual awareness), Myron Steves (family-owned insurance agency), The Lancaster Hotel (historical boutique hotel), Green Apple Salon (Aveda hair salon), Utility Research Garden (cooperative farming business), Business Genome (innovation engine/management consulting), Rice Building Institute (construction research non-profit), and Worthing Brighton Publishers (business book publisher).