Karen A. Chase

Historical Fiction & Branding Expert; Founder of 224Pages; Award-Winning Novelist of "Carrying Independence"

Richmond, VA, USA
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Adventure, Author, Entrepreneurship, Fiction Authors, Influential Women, Marketing, Non-Fiction Authors, Personal Growth, Research & Exploration, Storytelling, Strategic Leadership
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Karen A. Chase Biography

Karen A. Chase is an author, speaker, and brand designer whose career spans American history, entrepreneurship, and visual storytelling. For nearly three decades, Chase has worked as a professional designer, creating brands for national and international organizations, non-profits, and authors. After more than ten years with advertising agencies and design studios as a graphic designer, she launched her own branding and design studio. She also founded 224Pages, an independent publishing house.

Chase first gained recognition as an author with her travel memoir, "Bonjour 40: A Paris Travel Log," which received multiple independent publishing awards. She later focused on historical fiction, producing the novel "Carrying Independence," the first in a three-part Founding-Documents Series centered on the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Her Revolutionary War novel was ranked among the Top 100 Indie Books, was a Library of Virginia Award nominee, a two-time Eric Hoffer Indie Book winner, and a semi-finalist in the Screencraft Cinematic Book competition. Chase has served as a Creative Writing Visiting Scholar with the American Antiquarian Society and as a fellow with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, with residency at the Library of Virginia.

Chase's work spans multiple genres. She released a food-themed short story with recipes, "Mary Angela's Kitchen," and published the workbook "Brand the Author (Not the Book)," which integrates her expertise in marketing and publishing. She also published "The Travel Journal of Eliza House Trist, 1783–84," a transcription of a journal kept by a woman who traveled west for Thomas Jefferson. Chase's perspective integrates American independence, design, marketing, and entrepreneurship to create enduring brands.

As a speaker, Chase draws on her experience in historical fiction, branding, and publishing. Her award-winning independent publications, focusing on America's founding and brand development, have led to speaking engagements for historical, corporate, and trade audiences in the United States and Canada, both virtually and in person. She is a part-time onboard history lecturer with American Cruise Lines, sailing on the East Coast and the Chesapeake. Chase is a keynote speaker on topics such as "Revolutionize Your Brand," "Secure Your Independence," and "Travel Like Historical Novelists." She is a member of James River Writers, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Historical Novelist Society, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and the American Revolutionary Round Table.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/01/2026.

Karen A. Chase Speaking Topics

  • Revolutionize Your Brand

    Your desire to build an enduring brand is not just an American experience. It is truly an American Inheritance. It’s been handed down to us from the moment we declared independence, through the Revolutionary War, and over the years since our founding. When we look back at our origins, and combine them with branding terms we all hear—message, leadership, influencers, and more—we find memorable examples to help us better understand the components that make enduring American brands.

    Audience: For leadership and employees of corporations, nonprofits, government agencies, and grass-roots organizations determined to build, deepen, or reinvent an inspiring American brand. How: Historical and revolutionary facts are connected to three main branding components to help leadership and teams to structure and build enduring brands—learn how to be unique, consistent, and authentic.

    Key Takeaways: - A deeper understanding of brand components - A practical approach and set of worksheets for writing a brand plan - Tangible examples of historical events or people that inspire teams

  • Secure Your Independence

    The entrepreneurial spirit is an inherent, and inherited, American quality. Founding individuals who supported to the American cause, in ways both small and significant, contributed to creating a nation built like no other in the world at that time. Our country as a start-up was much like our businesses—created out of necessity, ingenuity, and with creativity over funding. When we study American origins, and combine it with the qualities and plans of successful brands, we find memorable examples to help us better understand tangible actions that can contribute to independent businesses that will succeed and endure. Audience: Entrepreneurs, solo-practitioners, trade organizations, leaders, freelance organizations, women’s groups, and authors/writers. How: Examples of unique, well-known, and lesser-known American founders and events are tied to three components every entrepreneur needs to build a successful and simple brand plan they can enact. Key Takeaways:

    • Understanding of the elements of a personal brand

    • practical approach & set of worksheets for writing a personal brand plan

    • Tangible examples of everyday people who made history

    • Workbook for building an author brand plan

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Karen A. Chase Videos

Karen A Chase - Chasing History to Revolutionize Your Brand

Karen A Chase - Chasing History to Revolutionize Your Brand

A speaker reel for author, brand designer, and speaker Karen A. Chase. Branding and Revolutionary War history come together in this speaker reel....

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The Travel Journal of Eliza House Trist, 1783-84
The Travel Journal of Eliza House Trist, 1783-84
Mary Angela's Kitchen
Mary Angela's Kitchen
Carrying Independence
Carrying Independence
Brand the Author (Not the Book) A Workbook for Writing & Launching Your Own Author Brand Plan
Brand the Author (Not the Book) A Workbook for Writing & Launching Your Own Author Brand Plan
Bonjour 40 A Paris Travel Log: (40 Years. 40 Days. 40 Seconds.)
Bonjour 40 A Paris Travel Log: (40 Years. 40 Days. 40 Seconds.)

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