A veteran connector, editor, and communicator, Karen Wickre has worked in and around Silicon Valley long enough to have appeared in WIRED 1.4. She’s developed stories, styles and cadence for Google, Twitter, and many startups; she’s been in her share of war rooms and fire drills, and crafted plenty of posts about pivots, shakeups and corporate apologies. More recently she’s been an adviser to companies needing a reality check on their content.

Steven Levy has called Karen “a powerful but unsung resource for tech industry insiders seeking career advice.” Now she has compiled her advice and long-time interest in connecting people in a new book, “Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert’s Guide to Making Connections That Count” (Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster), which comes out November 27.