About Me
Welcome to my portfolio site!
My name is Liz Massey. I am a freelance writer, editor and writing coach based in northern Maine.
My primary superpower is creating, discovering, editing, ordering and structuring great nonfiction content. My secondary superpower is managing and deploying the content of others, as a managing editor or another content operations role.
I love content that helps a reader reach a goal important to them. I hate content that is unclear, poorly organized or hard to understand.
💼 WHAT I DO
I research, write, edit and deliver content for websites, magazines, blogs, videos, and podcasts.
Some of the accomplishments I’m most proud of include:
➡️ Operated an active freelance writing and editing practice for more than 30 years.
➡️ Authored more than 400 published magazine articles, plus hundreds of unbylined blog posts and web pages
➡️ Provided comprehensive editing services as a freelancer and a managing editor, including:
- End-to-end editorial supervision of two magazines for a total of 16 years
- Line and developmental editing for nonfiction books
- Proofreading for nonfiction and fiction books
- Copy edited and proofread training content ranging from business writing courses to chiropractic medical education materials
- Editorial planning and editorial calendar development for podcasts, blogs, magazines, video scripts, and event promotional materials
➡️ Drafted blog posts for intermediate and long-term B2C clients, including residential solar energy system consultants, a cosmetic dentistry practice and a luxury rental home development
➡️ Creating comprehensive web content during site refresh projects for a medspa and an endodontic practice
➡️ Produced long-form content guides on AI-powered social media content creation apps and tips for creating interactive presentations
➡️ Wrote career-focused articles for workers aged 50+ on AI upskilling and post-retirement resumes
➡️ Supervised content creation for 700+ small law firm website builds and upgrades.
➡️ Slashed content strategy prep time by 50 percent by streamlining the workflow design of a research task in Wrike.
➡️ Created story edit memos to guide revision work by freelance magazine writers, reducing the average number of drafts per story from three to two.
➡️ Wrote scores of articles on career, health and political trends for LGBTQ+ individuals living in the American Southwest
You can learn even more about my work by visiting my LinkedIn profile.
In my spare time, I enjoy exploring the wild spaces of northern New England, sketchnoting and nature photography.