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Karen Wiesner is an accomplished author with 70 titles published in the past 11 years, which have been nominated for and/or won 96 awards, and 13 more releases contracted for spanning many categories and formats.
Karen’s Incognito Series (romantic action/adventure/suspense) is published by Whiskey Creek Press http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com. The following are now available: No Ordinary Love, Until Death Do Us Part, Bounty on the Rebel’s Heart, Dead Drop, Under the Spell, Renegade’s Rose, Undercover Angel, Hard to Handle, and Dance in Shadows. Upcoming releases include: Hypnotized (January 2010), Mind Games (October 2010), and Dark Approach (March 2011). The Incognito Series has won and/or finaled in FTHRW’s Lories’ Best Proposal and Best Publishing contests, the L-Edit Slip contest, EPIC’s EPPIE Award, The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance’s Reviewer’s Choice Award, Fallen Angel Reviews’ Recommended Read Award, The Long and Short of It’s (LASR) Best Romance of the Year Award and their highest review rating—Best Book, Manic Readers’ featured review status, and RT Book Reviews’ Top Pick review award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Fallen Angel Reviews, LASR, ReviewYourBook.com, Dark Diva Reviews, as well 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the Incognito Series covers herself.
Starting in 2010, look for the first release in Karen's new inspirational romantic mystery trilogy called Denim Blues Mysteries. RETIRED AND ON THE ROCKS (Book 1) will be released June 2010 from Whiskey Creek Press. LOVE IS BLIND...AND IT DON'T PAY THE BILLS EITHER (Book 2) will be released June 2011 and SOULS ON (B)ORING STREET (Book 3) will come out October 2011. Karen designed the covers herself.
Karen also writes police procedural mysteries with award-winning author Chris Spindler of Auenwald, Germany. The following are available now: Degrees of Separation, Tears on Stone, The Fifteenth Letter, Romantic Notions, and Falcon’s Bend Case Files, Volumes I and II. The Falcon’s Bend Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award, the L-Edit Slip contest, RT Book Reviews Top Pick review award and EPIC’s EPPIE Award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Huntress Reviews, Dark Angel Reviews, and Coffee Time Romance, as well as 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the covers and the series logo. Join Karen and Chris' Falcon's Bend Community at http://www.falconsbend.com, where you'll find updates and information about the series.
Karen’s inspirational romantic suspense, The Bloodmoon Curse (a 2006 Ecataromance Reviewer's Choice Award nominee, a 2006 Dream Ream Award finalist, a Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read, as well as the recipient of multiple 5 star reviews), is published by Samhain Publishing http://samhainpublishing.com/authors/karen-wiesner, as is her newest inspirational romance series, Family Heirlooms. The following are now available: Baby, Baby, Shadow Boxing, and Foolish Games. The Family Heirlooms Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance Reviewer’s Choice Award, and WDRF's Top Read of Excellence, their highest review rating.
Karen's series' with Hard Shell Word Factory http://www.hardshell.com include the Gypsy Road Series, the Angelfire Trilogy, and Dare to Love Series (all contemporary romances). Her fiction from Hard Shell has been nominated for multiple RT Book Reviews’ Reviewer's Choice Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, From the Heart Chapter of RWA’s The Lories Best Published Contest, and several EPPIE Awards.
Uncial Press http://www.uncialpress.com has published Until It’s Gone, Book 5 of Karen’s Wounded Warriors Series as well as reissued Reluctant Hearts (Book 1) and Waiting for an Eclipse (Book 2) in electronic formats. Look for electronic reissues of Mirror Mirror (Book 3), January 15, 2010; and Wayward Angels (Book 4), March 12, 2010 from Uncial. White Rainbow, the sixth and final book in the series will be released Summer 2010. Trade paperback versions will be available for each book in the series. Karen designed the new covers for the series.
Karen’s first writing reference title with Writer’s Digest Books www.writersdigest.com, First Draft in 30 Days, is a bestseller that’s available wherever writing reference titles are sold. It was a Writer’s Digest Book Club Main Selection in March 2005. Visit the First Draft bonus website, where you’ll find articles and supplementals to the book, at http://www.firstdraftin30days.com. Karen’s second release from Writer’s Digest Books is From First Draft to Finished Novel {A Writer’s Guide to Cohesive Story Building}, available now. Both books are also available in PDF format from the publisher.
Karen is also the author of Electronic Publishing The Definitive Guide {The Most Complete Reference to Non-Subsidy E-Publishing} and Weave Your Web. The Guide was a finalist for the 2000 EPPIE Award and won the 2001 EPPIE for Best Non-fiction. It was excerpted in the 2001 Writers Digest Novel & Short Story Market and made the 2001 Inscriptions’ Books of the Year list. eBooks N’ Bytes chose the Guide to be their first winner of the eBooks N’ Bytes Award of Excellence for Epublishing Book of the Year (2002). The Guide was also a finalist in the 2002 Indie Awards. Weave Your Web was a 2004 EPPIE finalist.
Note: Please note that Karen will has discontinued these books and both are currently unavailable.
THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS details how published authors can set up a promotional group (like Karen’s own, Jewels of the Quill). The reference book is available now in electronic formats from Twilight Times Books http://twilighttimesbooks.com/. THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS was a 2009 EPPIE Award finalist.
Karen writes children’s books under the pen name Karen Sue Wiesner for Writer’s Exchange E-Publishing http://www.readerseden.com. Releases include:
• Taking Responsibility Builds Trust (Making Good Choices Series)—a 2004 EPPIE Award Finalist
• Taking Care of Your Things (Making Good Choices Series)
• Cody Knows with Linda Derkez—a 2004 EPPIE Award Finalist
Karen’s first book of poetry, Soul Bleeds The Dark Poetry and Other Wanderings of K.S. Wiesner, finaled in the 2002 EPPIE Awards and is available from Atlantic Bridge Publishing http://www.atlanticbridge.net.
Karen is the founding member of Jewels of the Quill www.JewelsoftheQuill.com, a promotional group of women authors who write in a variety of genres. The group has monthly spotlights and giveaways at their website, a newsletter with more than 1000 subscribers, and was featured in the September 2003 issue of Romantic Times. Jewels of the Quill produces two group anthologies per year published by Whiskey Creek Press http://www.whiskeycreekpress.com, including:
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume I was released September 2005 (with Karen’s The Amethyst Angel). It received a 4 1/2 star review and was a September 2005 Top Pick from RT Book Reviews, was a RT 2005 Reviewers’ Choice Award winner, a 2006 EPPIE Award winner, a Love Romance’s Golden Rose Reviewer’s Choice Award winner as well as a 2006 Ecataromance Best Book of the Year winner.
• Small Gifts was the group’s first Christmas anthology (A Home for Christmas by Karen Wiesner).
• Treasures of the Heart was JOTQ’s first Valentine’s Day anthology and finaled in The Romance Studio's 2005 and 2006 Cupid and Psyche Awards (A Rose for Romeo, Adventures in Amethyst Series, Book 1 by Karen Wiesner).
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume II also received a 4 1/2 star review from RT (The Amethyst Star by Karen Wiesner).
• Also a recipient of a 4 1/2 star review from RT, Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume III was a finalist for the 2008 EPPIE Award and was also a 2007 RT Reviewer’s Choice Award nominee (Revenge in Amethyst, Adventures in Amethyst Series, Book 2, by Karen Wiesner).
• Shadows in the Heart (Papa, Woodcutter’s Grim Series, Book 1, by Karen Wiesner) was JOTQ’s first Halloween anthology and received a 5 angel review from Fallen Angel Reviews, was a finalist for the 2008 EPPIE Awards as well as finaling in the 2007 Dream Realm Awards. The cover of Shadows, designed by Karen, was a recipient of EPIC's 2008 Dirk A. Wolf Honorable Mention Award for Excellence in eBook Cover Artwork.
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume IV received Night Owl Romance’s Reviewer Top Pick Award with a 4 1/2 star review (Blood of Amethyst, Woodcutter’s Grim Series, Book 2, by Karen Wiesner).
• Christmas Wishes was the group’s second Christmas anthology and received a 4 1/2 pixie review from Dark Angel Reviews and was nominated for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award (Perfect Cadence, Kaleidoscope Series, Book 1 by Karen Wiesner).
• Magical Kisses was JOTQ’s second Valentine’s Day anthology and received 5 stars from ReviewYourBook.com (In Cahoots With Cupid, Kaleidoscope Series, Book 2 by Karen Wiesner) and is currently a 2010 EPIC Award finalist.
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume V was released in September 2009 (Behind Amethyst Eyes, Kaleidoscope Series, Book 3, by Karen Wiesner) and received 5 stars from ReviewYourBook.com.
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume VI will be released in March 2010 (Jordana’s Chair, Kaleidoscope Series, Book 4, by Karen Wiesner). It’s received 5 stars from Classic Romance Reviews and ReadersFavorite.com.
• Halloween Treasures will be JOTQ’s second Halloween anthology, coming September 2010 (Paper Tiger, Kaleidoscope Series, Book 5 by Karen Wiesner).
• Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume VII will be released in March 2011 (Moonlight Becomes You, Woodcutter's Grim Series, Book 4, by Karen Wiesner).
• Christmas Gems will be the group's third Christmas anthology, coming September 2011 (Wings of Love, Cowboy Fever Series, Book 1 by Karen Wiesner).
Karen edited Tales from the Treasure Trove, Volume I, and co-edited each subsequent group anthology. She also designed all the Jewels of the Quill book covers. Karen has contributed novellas to each anthology the group has done from the very first.
In addition, Karen’s Jewels of the Quill anthology stories have been and will be packaged in the following dame collections:
• Dame Amethyst Treasures, including The Amethyst Angel, A Home for Christmas, The Amethyst Star and a bonus, never-before-published novella called Creatures of the Night (available now from Whiskey Creek Press).
• Adventures in Amethyst Series collection, including A Rose for Romeo (Story 1), Revenge in Amethyst (Story 2) plus two bonus stories never before published Reckless Rose (Story 3) and Christmas in Amethyst (Story 4), available now from WCP. Adventures in Amethyst Series received 5 angels and a FAR Recommended Read Award. Reckless Rose was nominated for LASR's Best Romance of 2007.
• Woodcutter’s Grim Series—Classic Tales of Horror Retold collection, including Papa (Book 1), Blood of Amethyst (Book 2), plus 2 bonus stories never before published: Dancing to the Grave (Book 3) and The Amethyst Tower (The Final Chapter), available now from WCP. Woodcutter’s Grim Series received the Recommended Read Award from Dark Angel Reviews (their highest review) as well as 5 paw prints from Howling Good Books. It was also a 2008 Dream Realm Award winner.
• Kaleidoscope Series collection, including Perfect Cadence (Book 1), In Cahoots With Cupid (Book 2), Behind Amethyst Eyes (Book 3), Jordana’s Chair (Book 4), Paper Tiger (Book 5), plus 2 bonus stories in the series never before published: Cabin Fever (Book 6) and The Longest Night (Book 7), coming December 2010 from WCP.
Look for more dame collections from Karen in the future.
Karen won the Inscriptions Engraver Award for best on-line columnist two years in a row, the Year 2000 for eXcellence in E-publishing Award: E-author from ebookadvisor, was a two time recipient of the E-Pub Ambassador Award, and was a two time recipient of The Simply Charming Award for outstanding promotion of e-books. She was also nominated for the 2000 EPIC Florence Moyer Service Award.
Karen is a member of Sisters in Crime Internet Chapter http://www.sinc-ic.org, BooksWeLove.net http://www.BooksWeLove.net, Infinite Worlds of Fantasy Authors http://www.iwofa.net/ROFwebsite2.html, and World Romance Writers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WRWlist/.
For more information about what Karen’s working on, visit http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/WIP.html. In addition to writing, Karen enjoys designing websites and graphics for her pages. Currently, she designs and maintains her own site, children’s author Linda Derkez’s website http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/linda.html and the Jewels of the Quill’s website. Karen also enjoys designing cover art and logos for books. You can view her designs at www.angelfire.com/stars4/kswiesner/KarensCoverDesigns.html.
Find out more about Karen by visiting her website at http://www.karenwiesner.com. If you would like to receive Karen’s free e-mail newsletter, Karen’s Quill, and become eligible to win her monthly book giveaways, visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KarensQuill or send a blank message to KarensQuill-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
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