Karen currently writes, edits, and consults on a contract basis for companies and organizations including Ant’s Eye View, Medical Marcom, Cardiac Science,Anthro-Tech, ChrisRugh.com, Web 1 Marketing, Muse Indigo, Orange County Housing Trust, and Plymouth Housing. She also writes a humor column for theHome Owners Club.

She’s the author of the ebook Take Control of iPhone Basics and writes theiPhone 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).

She in a contributor to the Social Business Maven blog. She is currently on the governing board of the Clarion West Writers Workshop

She served as a reviewer for the Webby Awards (2008 and 2009) and for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest (2008–2011).  She conducted a workshop on websites for writers at the 2012 Nebula Awards.