Karen Schaler is a three-time Emmy award-winning storyteller, screenwriter, producer, author and national TV host. In one year, between 2017-18, Karen wrote original screenplays for Netflix, Hallmark and Lifetime holiday movies and landed a three book publishing deal, at auction, with HarperCollins for Christmas novels, earning her the nickname "Christmas Karen" in the press.

"What Schaler accomplished in the last 10 months is mind-blowing" - Forbes

For 2020, Karen is in development for her next Christmas movie. She's also working on another original feature Christmas script, and is releasing her next novel Christmas Ever After, A Mamma Mia meets The Bachelorette style love story where she's also writing the screenplay.

To help pay it forward during these challenging times Karen is donating a percentage of the proceeds from each book sold to help support libraries and bookstores. She has also just launched a new show CHRISTMAS KAREN: BEHIND THE STORY where in the spirit of giving back she's talking to the writers, directors, actors, producers, agents, and movie crews, who help create the magical Christmas movies everyone loves so much. In each show the guests share their own personal stories, tips and advice to help empower and inspire everyone to go after their dreams.

Writing has always been Karen's dream.

Her first original screenplay, the Netflix breakout hit, A Christmas Prince, premiered in 2017, followed by the sequels, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding in 2019, and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby in 2019.

After writing A Christmas Prince, Karen went on to write two more original screenplays in 2018, Christmas Camp for Hallmark and Every Day is Christmas, Lifetime's holiday headliner starting Toni Braxton. Also in 2018, Karen wrote her debut novel, Christmas Camp, that came out in October, that was based on her Hallmark movie, and the sequel novella Christmas Camp Wedding, that was released in January of 2019.

For 2019, Karen wrote the Lifetime Christmas movie Rediscovering Christmas, in addition to her next holiday novel, Finding Christmas, where she has also written the screenplay.

Also for 2019, Karen brought her Christmas Camp Hallmark movie and books to life in an immersive first-of-its-kind experience that she has trademarked. She has partnered with the AAA Five Diamond Phoenician Resort where everyone's invited to Karen Schaler's Christmas Camp to embrace the true meaning and magic of Christmas.

Another one of Karen's novels, represented by CAA, was optioned by Storyline Entertainment's Neil Meron and Craig Zadan where Karen worked with the development team as the sole screenwriter adapting her novel into a screenplay for a feature film.

In addition to her novel and screenwriting, Karen, after hosting ABC's national travel show, created and trademarked her Travel Therapy TV segments and continues to travel around the world featuring the most inspiring and empowering places to go based on what you're going through in life.

Karen's Travel Therapy TV, inspired by her book, Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?, airs nationally on top ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CW stations in the U.S., and also airs internationally.

Karen credits her passionate and prolific writing style to her award-winning background as a television broadcast journalist where she has traveled to more than 68 countries.

Karen was the first journalist ever embedded with a combat Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan where she wrote, produced and hosted an Emmy award-winning one-hour TV documentary that aired on ABC.

She was also the first TV journalist embedded with troops in Bosnia wrote, produced and hosted an Emmy award-winning half-hour TV documentary that aired on NBC.

Karen's more than 300 publishing credits include The New Yorker, Boston Globe, AOL, New York Daily News, abcnews.com, Travel + Leisure, Town & Country, Islands magazine, Huffington Post, Delta Sky, US Airways Magazine, Hemispheres and SilverKris: Singapore Airlines magazine.

Karen grew up outside of Seattle and in Los Angeles and graduated with honors from California State University Fullerton with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Sociology.

When she's not traveling you can find Karen in New York City, Los Angeles, and Scottsdale, Arizona.