Upcoming Guest Appearances:
Celebrity Cruise - Eclipse (6/22/13 - 7/6/13)
-Southampton, Bruges, Berlin, Stockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg,
Tallinn, Copenhagen
Celebrity Cruise - Equinox (12/9/13 - 12/20/13)
- Fort Lauderdale, George Town, Cartahena, Colon, Belize, Cozumel
2012 Pikes Peak Writers Conference - Adjunct Faculty - 4/19/12--4/22/12
YouTube samples 6-minute or 9-minute
- Nonfiction Book Proposals
- Writing Your Life
- MIle High Concept: The Big Idea (3-hour Master Class with Esri Allbritten)
Telling Tales in the Tipi Summer Workshop Series - Guest Speaker
- Self Editing From the Base Up - 4/14/12
2011 Colorado Gold Conference - Presenter (Sept 9-11)
- I've Been Here Before - Writing Effective Flashbacks
- Perfecting the Pitch--Life Isn't Just An Elevator Ride
2011 Pikes Peak Writers Conference - Adjunct Faculty
- Writing Your LIfe--What's Your Angle? (3-hour Master Class)
- Self Editing
- High Concept
- Building a Non-Fiction Platform (panel)
- Non-Fiction Proposals
Workshop: 11/6/10 Pikes Peak Writers Volunteer Retreat
- Tricks for Staying Motivated
2010 Colorado Gold Conference - Presenter
- High Concept - Titilate Me, But Do It Fast
- Want To Turn Your Novel Into A Screenplay?
- Critique
2010 Pikes Peak Writers Conference - Adjunct Faculty
(with collaborator Janet Fogg)
- Collaboration 101
- Screenwriting 101
Boulder Writers Meetup Group 7/17/10
- Landing a Top Agent
Workshops: 8/1/09 PPW Volunteer Retreat
- I’ve Been Here Before: Writing Effective Flashbacks
- Editing from the Base Up – A Builder’s Approach
Workshops: 8/9/08 PPW Volunteer Retreat
- High Concept
- Nonfiction Book Proposals
Boulder Writers Meetup Group 10/03/09
- High Concept for novelists, nonfiction writers, and screenwriters.
Pikes Peak Writers Success Story Panel May 9, 2006
Spoke in and facilitated writing workshops
for high schools and middle schools (2003-2009)
Private Pitch Coach - Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2009
Pitch workshops:
Speed Pitch Coach - Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2009
Pitch Practice - Pikes Peak Writers Conference 2011
Moderator:
2004 & 2008 & 2010 Pikes Peak Writers Conference
Interviews:
2004 MovieBytes Magazine
About Karen's Workshops
"Karen Lin -- you are freaking brilliant. Thank you for the in depth discussion of
the non-fic proposal process. I can now nail this sucker and get it out
:)” - Deb Courtney
"Karen -- Thank you for your talk at our group yesterday. I am new at this and I never
fail to learn from the presentations. Yours was a winner for me. After I
thought about High Concepts and Log Lines I was sufficiently moved to sit down
after the Rockies game last night, with a story line totally fresh for me, and
write a 2200 word short story. Without your presentation, my magazine
pitch would have been dreadfully long, and lacked the punch I am able to give
it, not to mention coming up with a title I like. Thanks.” – Tom
Parsons, Boulder Writers Meetup Group
“Karen, Thank you so much for all your wonderful workshops and lectures at RMFW
conference this year! It was such a pleasure to attend your High Concept
course and it really helped me solidify my pitch and to help others do the
same. (Thanks to you I was asked to submit my full MS to the agent of my
dreams!) I look forward to seeing you at a future workshop or lecture
soon!" - Bree Ervin
"Wow,
what can I say about Karen. Obviously she is good since she is on my nominee
<for best speaker> list twice! She is a published author with a passion
to help us peons… I mean aspiring authors… with our craft. Her first workshop
was amazing. So much so, I jumped from my seat to share my pitch for DRAGONS
FOREVER. She critiqued it beautifully and made me feel like I really had
something. Which of course is awesome. Then I had her again for the
Critique workshop. Mostly talking about how important critique partners are and
how to get groups set up if you want them. I know how important they are and am
fortunate to have a critique partner whom I can call on anytime of the day. But
more then once during the day I heard people talking about Karen’s workshop and
how it’s helped them figure out where to go. Excellent topics, good
information, well thought out responses and just overall great great
lady." -
“Karen is a brilliant
instructor with years of experience coaching newbies and oldies alike. She teaches you to look at your work in a new
way. Instead of examining it under the microscope for minor flaws and wayward
commas, she shows you how to soar above it and get that eagle’s eye view. Are
your plains rolling? Are your peaks jutting? Have you lost the forest for the
trees? And most importantly, does your winding road of narrative actually take
you where you think it does?
She professionally and compassionately shows you how to tear
down your own defenses and open your eyes to what’s really on the page so you
can see past what you thought you put there, wanted to put there, meant to put
there – to what actually IS there.
Karen worked with all of us, as a group and individually. She
showed us all the broad steps of self-editing, that soaring eagle’s eye view we
need to take, and how to move in closer and closer to work out the details once
that sweeping scene has been painted, and the road from Beginning to End has
been put in.
She asked deep, probing questions, making sure we were seeing
the traps we’d laid out for ourselves so we could step around them, or re-work
them to our benefit.
When she left, well after lunch, we were all changed writers. We
all had a new way of looking at our work, at our words, at our process even.
<One student> wrote to tell me: I
loved Karen, she’s a wise editor, truly inspiring and gave ‘right on’ advice.”
- Bree Ervin - in reference to April 14, 2012 Tales in the Tipi Self Editing Workshop. Bree's Blog