Maeve

Book Editor, Publishing & Course Development Specialist

Kaywee • Freelance

Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 • 6 mos

Provided writing, editing, publishing, and online learning services for authors, entrepreneurs, coaches, educators, and small businesses. Helped clients develop unfinished ideas, rough drafts, and existing materials into organized books, ebooks, training resources, and online courses. Worked on fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, providing developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, manuscript critique, beta reading, and content improvement. Reviewed stories and manuscripts for plot structure, pacing, character development, chapter organization, consistency, grammar, sentence flow, and readability while keeping the author's original voice and ideas intact. Supported authors with ebook and book preparation, including manuscript formatting, Kindle formatting, paperback formatting, KDP formatting, chapter styling, headings, page layout, tables of contents, and general document organization. Created and organized online course materials for different subjects and audiences. Developed course outlines, curriculum structures, modules, lessons, quizzes, assignments, workbooks, presentations, assessments, and interactive learning activities. Assisted with organizing and preparing content for TalentLMS, LearnWorlds, Graphy, Moodle, WordPress LMS, Tutor LMS, H5P, and Articulate Storyline. Managed multiple projects from initial planning through completion, communicating with clients to understand their requirements, target audience, preferred style, project scope, and deadlines. Focused on producing clear, well-structured content that clients could use for publishing, teaching, training, or online learning.

Writer, Editor & Course Content Specialist

Upwork • Freelance

May 2022 - Aug 2022 • 3 mos

Worked as a freelance writer, editor, ghostwriter, and online course content specialist, helping authors, coaches, educators, consultants, and businesses develop their ideas into clear, useful, and engaging content. Handled fiction and nonfiction ghostwriting, ebook writing, novel writing, short stories, memoirs, biographies, self-help books, business content, and other long-form projects. Worked from simple ideas, notes, outlines, existing chapters, or incomplete manuscripts and developed them into structured, readable content while maintaining the client's intended message and writing style. Provided book editing, developmental editing, copy editing, line editing, proofreading, manuscript critique, and beta reading. Reviewed manuscripts for structure, plot, pacing, character development, chapter flow, consistency, grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, and readability. Provided practical feedback to help authors identify weak areas and make informed revisions before publishing. Also handled book formatting, manuscript formatting, ebook formatting, Kindle formatting, paperback formatting, book layout, and Amazon KDP preparation. Organized chapters, headings, page elements, tables of contents, paragraphs, and other book components for a clean and consistent reading experience. Developed online course content for coaches, educators, trainers, consultants, and businesses. Created course curriculums, modules, lessons, lesson plans, quizzes, assessments, assignments, workbooks, presentations, learning activities, and downloadable resources. Organized course materials for platforms including TalentLMS, LearnWorlds, Graphy, Moodle, WordPress LMS, Tutor LMS, H5P, and Articulate Storyline.