Editorial Services

I offer a range of services including short critiques, global reads, developmental editing for manuscripts, and individualized coaching. My rates are accessible and my turnaround timely, with a strategy tailored to your needs. I specialize in literary and commercial fiction — but I’ve also edited memoirs and other non-fiction as well as educational texts.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

“Working with Chin-Sun on my manuscript was a dream editorial experience! Not only were the global edits incisive, but the attentiveness at the line level made it easy for me to standardize and carry style conventions forward through subsequent revisions. The aspects of the process I appreciated most were the probing questions that were posed in the editorial letter and in-line comments. They were nonprescriptive and yet so astute that they cracked my story wide open for my exploration. I was able to deeply reflect on and investigate my prose. I would highly recommend Chin-Sun as a partner in manuscript development and editing for any writer!” —Jonathan Jackson, literary fiction writer

“Putting your creative work in front of someone new can feel overwhelming, but with Chin-Sun on the other side, it’s exciting. Her reading is sharp and inquisitive, her comments straightforward and incisive. She pushes each piece to go deeper, and the writer to execute at a higher level. There’s a rare level of integrity to her editorial eye – she's able to see the work clearly and honestly, while also looking toward what it can become.”
—Allyson Noman, fiction and essay writer

“Before I began working with Chin-Sun, my writing project felt overwhelming, and I felt directionless. But working with her has given me a sense of confidence in myself, and it has made my writing manageable. Now my project seems both clear and obtainable. She has helped me to organize my thoughts, plans, and processes into realistic and actionable goals. She has an incredible ability to find the inconsistencies and ambiguities inside pieces that need attention, and her encouragement and guidance have pushed my work through a revision process that has ultimately made me a better writer. Chin-Sun has reliably provided me with accountability and support, and her dedication to the craft of writing and helping other writers is inspiring! I would recommend working with Chin-Sun to anyone, especially those looking for a firm yet gentle hand to guide them through the writing process.” —Heather Butcher, flash nonfiction writer

“Chin-Sun cares deeply about writing, and that care extends to those of us she teaches in her award-worthy classes and those of us she assists as an editor. She moves between the perspective of a reader and that of the writer (you!) to facilitate an elegant result. She attends to the misplaced comma and to the obscured heart of the matter with skill, honesty and the willingness to raise sensitive issues when necessary. And those commas! And sentences, and paragraphs: she seems to hold the entire draft manuscript in her creative mind’s eye and observe where the stories flow and where they need expansion, clarification, or rethinking. I deeply value Chin-Sun’s contribution to my work.”
—Naomi Bock, memoirist and non-fiction writer