About: Karen G. Anderson

For the past decade Karen Anderson has designed, written, and produced innovative online communications for business and consumer audiences. Karen’s adventures in writing and communications have taken her from investigative journalism and magazine management to web content design, book reviewing, fundraising, blogging, and social media consulting.

Karen currently writes, edits, and consults on a contract basis for companies and organizations including Medical Marcom, Cardiac Science, Anthro-Tech, ChrisRugh.com, Web 1 Marketing, Muse Indigo, Plymouth Housing, and Take Control Books. She also writes a humor column for the Home Owners Club.

She’s the author of the ebook Take Control of iPhone Basics and writes the iPhone 4 Tips blog.

From 2000-2006 she worked at Apple as a writer for iReview and the iTunes Music Store and as the managing editor for the one-million-member .Mac Internet services website (the forerunner of MobileMe and iCloud).

Karen is a member of Women in Digital Journalism, Biznik, and the National Book Critics Circle. Karen has served on boards and committees for nonprofit organizations including the Pat Graney Dance Company and Foolscap. She is currently on the boards of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and Northwest Folklife.

Writing & Social Media Projects

Karen specializes in social media consulting and in SEO-savvy writing and blogging for business websites. In addition, she edits ebooks (including Take Control of iWeb ’09) and writes client and investor profiles.

She served as a reviewer for the Webby Awards (2008 and 2009) and for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (2008–2011). Karen spoke at the BigFoot Blogging Conference, at Ignite Seattle, and at the 2011 Seattle Social Media Summit hosted by the Center for Nonprofit Success. She appeared as a guest blogger on Deborah Ng’s Freelancing Writing Jobs site, asking “Is Copy Editing Extinct?” and was interviewed by Seattle 24×7 about the iPhone 4.

Blogging & Articles

Karen blogs about all the write stuff here at WriterWay.com. Her articles “Are You Smart About Using Your Smart Phone?” and  “9 Ways to ‘Power Up’ Your Business Blog” appear on Biznik.

“For women in their early 50s, a no-sweat 20-minute workout is about as useful for fending off fat and unfitness as sprinkling salt substitute on your large order of greasy french fries.”

— from Karen’s essay on fitness in
In Our Prime: Empowering Essays by Women (2010)

Reviewing & Commentary

Karen taught a workshop at the 2011 Foolscap Convention on how writers can use a book critic’s tools to critique their own fiction.

“I live in a city whose name is synonymous with “coffee.” What’s a poor tea drinker to do? Listen to Karen’s radio commentary on KUOW-FM.

“Fuzzy. Persistent. Persnickety. Annoying. Allergy-inducing. I’m referring here not to felines, but to the literary subgenre of cat mysteries…” Read Karen’s review of cat mysteries at January Magazine.