Biography
"What Schaler has accomplished... is mind-blowing." - Forbes
Karen Schaler is a three-time Emmy Award-winning writer, producer, bestselling author, journalist, and national TV host. Writing romantic comedies, comedies, and dramas for film, TV, and audio, Karen has written for Netflix, Hallmark, and Lifetime, including the wildly popular Netflix Original, A Christmas Prince, which became an instant franchise sensation.
After landing a publishing deal with HarperCollins and starting her own publishing company, Karen has written seven bestselling rom-com novels, which she plans to adapt for film and TV.
Karen has also written and helped produce a Top 10 Audible Original Bestseller romantic comedy, which features a full cast of award-winning actors and musicians.
"Karen is one of the most masterful storytellers writing today with a gift for distilling warmth and magic into profoundly uplifting storylines." -Rose Hilliard, Executive Editor, Audible Originals.
Always looking for new platforms to share her stories after Karen wrote the original Hallmark movie Christmas Camp and the Christmas Camp books for HarperCollins, she is now creating real-life, immersive Christmas Camp® experiences for grownups at top resorts and destinations worldwide, bringing all her Christmas movies and books to life. For her first 10-night Christmas Camp event, she sold out 400 room nights in a half-hour.
Karen is also the creator and host of Travel Therapy ® TV with more than 500 episodes featuring the most inspiring and empowering trips to take based on what you're going through in life.
Karen has multiple film, TV, audio, and travel projects in various stages of development. She 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 embedded with an Apache helicopter unit in Afghanistan and ground troops in Bosnia, to working undercover as a crime and investigative reporter to globetrotting around the world for her travel show, Karen draws from her unique life experiences for all her storytelling.
The first print story Karen ever sold was in one of the world's most influential magazines, The New Yorker, after Karen cold queried editor David Remnick.
Karen's exclusive report, Chest Out, Stomach In. All That You Can Be uncovered soldiers talking about a new recruiting tool. Cosmetic surgery. In all four military branches, the personnel and family members had access to unlimited free boob and nose jobs, face-lifts, liposuction, tummy tucks, the works. Hundreds of military makeovers were being done, all at taxpayers' expense.
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, Karen can be found in Los Angeles, New York City, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
A favorite question Karen was asked while working as a TV correspondent came from an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and author who asked her... "What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?"
Karen answered without hesitation. "Exactly what you're doing..."
And Karen says that question has fueled her forward ever since.
