Karen Schaler

Karen Schaler is a three-time Emmy award-winning storyteller, screenwriter, producer, author, and national TV host. In the last three years, she has written five original movies for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime, including the Netflix hit A Christmas Prince, and four novels ( HarperCollins) that she uses as her own IP. "What Schaler accomplished in the last 10 months is mind-blowing" - Forbes For 2021, Karen is in development for several features and television projects. Karen credits her passionate and prolific writing style to her background as a national TV correspondent where she has traveled to more than 68-countries profiling power stories about diverse cultures and ordinary people doing extraordinary things. From being a national White House correspondent to the first journalist in the world ever embedded with an Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan and ground troops in Bosnia to going undercover as a crime and investigative reporter, to creating her own empowering Travel Therapy TV series, Karen draws from her unique life experiences for her screenwriting. All of Karen's stories are filled with humor, heart, and hope. After selling her first spec script, A Christmas Prince, premiering in 2017, 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, which came out in October, that was based on her Hallmark movie, and the sequel novella Christmas Camp Wedding, which 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 that she is currently in development for. Also for 2019, after trademarking her Christmas Camp concept Karen brought her Christmas Camp Hallmark movie and books to life in a two week immersive first-of-its-kind Christmas Camp experience at the AAA five-diamond resort The Phoenician where everyone could participate in dozens of different activities from Karen's Christmas movies and novels and that NBC's TODAY show featured twice. In 2020, in addition to being in development for her Finding Christmas screenplay and novel Karen also wrote her novel Christmas Ever After, a Mamma Mia meets The Bachelorette style love story, where Karen is also writing the feature screenplay. Another one of Karen's novels, a romantic comedy, 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. As an award-winning national TV correspondent, 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