About Karen Scanlon

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While Text eMender might be new on the prose-improvement scene, I am a tried-and-true professional proofer-editor with experience spanning three decades and several industries.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Karen Scanlon and I have been appreciating, creating, emending, revising and tweaking the written word since I learned my letters.

I LOVE the written word! My love affair started with reading. I recall, at the age of 11, raiding my father’s library to discover Irwin Shaw’s Rich Man, Poor Man and Peter Benchley’s Jaws. I agree, inappropriate material for a pre-teen, but I mention purely to explain the level of my desire. 

Throughout high school and college, I was drawn to the arts over science, loving that if you could provide compelling and clear arguments, your opinion was accepted and, generally, graded well. This only fed my natural affinity and appreciation for words.

Fast forward 30 years. Armed with a minor in Creative Writing from Ithaca College, a master’s in Journalism from Temple University, editorial experience in such industries as news (Dow Jones Interactive Publishing, Cinemania, MSN.com), collegiate textbooks (Harcourt College Publishing), advertising (Mower) and innumerable marketing, travel and health/nutrition/wellness endeavors, I now launch Text eMender.com. 

All this experience, combined with a certain innate “knowing” of how words and concepts flow together to create compelling content—whether to sell, educate, entertain or any hybrid therein, I help clients improve their prose. 

I work in all mediums and with all forms of written expression, be it blog or book, from email blasts to annotated white papers. My laser-focused attention to detail polishing content to a sheen that emphasizes your message, not the mechanics.

My 21-year-side hustle as a health and wellness counselor, energy healer and metaphysical guide (visit Intuit Nutrition to learn more) allows me to bring a multi-dimensional understanding and specialty expertise to those seeking proofing support in the health, wellness and metaphysical industries.

So whether you are a budding blogger, a first-time author, a coach on the brink of launching a new program or a fortune 500 corporation, allow this prose improver to polish your words until your message shines!

My Mission:

To help you get your material and message out for all the world to see the way you want it seen!