‏Karen Schaler‏

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.

Karen wrote the original screenplay for the NETFLIX holiday hit, A Christmas Prince, premiering in 2017, that has the sequel, A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding.

In 2018, Karen went on to write two more original screenplays for Lifetime's holiday headliner starring Toni Braxton and a Hallmark movie.

Parlaying her screenwriting into a publishing deal, after Karen wrote the original screenplay Christmas Camp that sold to a major network, she sold her novel, based on her movie, Christmas Camp, at auction, to HarperCollins, William Morrow, Christmas Camp the novel and movie, premiering in 2018. Also included in the publishing deal, Karen sold the sequel, Christmas Camp Wedding, and another novel slated for 2019.

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 featuring the most inspiring and empowering places to go around the world based on what you're going through in life.

Travel Therapy TV airs nationally on top ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CW stations and streams internationally. Karen says Travel Therapy TV was inspired by her book, Travel Therapy: Where Do You Need to Go?

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 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.