JANUARY 2023 CATCHUP
 
Karen Wiesner’s Karen’s Quill Newsletter
 
Website: https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/
Blog https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/karens-quill-blog
http://www.facebook.com/KarenWiesnerAuthor
In addition to having been a popular writing reference instructor and writer, professional blurbologist and freelance editor, Karen Wiesner is the accomplished author of 150 titles published, which have been nominated/won for over a hundred and thirty awards. Karen’s books cover such genres as women’s fiction, romance, mystery/police procedural/cozy, suspense, thriller, paranormal, supernatural, futuristic, fantasy, science fiction, gothic, inspirational/Christian, horror, chick-lit, and action/adventure. She also writes children’s books, poetry, and writing reference titles which have been repackaged in the 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection. Karen will begin illustrating children's books starting in 2024. 
 
WHAT'S NEW
 
My 2022 accomplishments:
-outlined 2 novels
-wrote 3 novels and 1 writing reference
-revised and polished 2 novels and 1 writing reference
-completed editor revisions for 2 novels and 4 writing reference reissues
-had 2 novels published and 4 writing reference titles reissued
-read 142 books
 
In the first of four posts, I deal with how writers can get their muses to work *with* rather than *against* them. Check out "The Four Myths Your Muse Desperately Wants You to Believe, Part 1", based on the newly reissued FIRST DRAFT OUTLINE, Volume 1 of the 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, here:
https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-four-myths-your-muse.html
 
What New Year's resolutions have you made when it comes to writing? My article "Two Crucial Writing Goal Sheets", up at Alien Romances Blog, might help you with that: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/two-crucial-writing-goal-sheets-by.html
 
In a three-part commentary using author Christopher Paolini's two series, I talked about the conundrum of how important presentation is with massive sagas on the Alien Romances Blog. Presentation is King.
Part 1: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king.html
Part 2: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king_01963401706.html
Part 3: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king_02089261396.html
 
NEWEST AND UPCOMING RELEASES
 
COHESIVE STORY BUILDING, 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection: Volume 2 reissue and BONUS COMPANION BOOKLET
Writing Reference
Available now in electronic and paperback
http://www.writers-exchange.com/3d-fiction-fundamentals-series/
 
CPR FOR DEAD OR LIFELESS FICTION {A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships}, 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection: Volume 6 reissue and BONUS COMPANION BOOKLET
Writing Reference
Available now in electronic and paperback
http://www.writers-exchange.com/3d-fiction-fundamentals-series/
 
WRITING BLURBS THAT SIZZLE--AND SELL!, 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection: Volume 7 reissue and BONUS COMPANION BOOKLET
Writing Reference
Available now in electronic and paperback
http://www.writers-exchange.com/3d-fiction-fundamentals-series/
 
ADVENTURES IN AMETHYST TRIO OF HOLIDAY ROMANCES including NEVER A BRIDE, Book 11; UNLUCKY IN LOVE, Book 12; and SHOTGUN WEDDING, Book 13
Contemporary Romance Novels
Available now in paperback and electronic formats; also available individually
http://www.writers-exchange.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series/
 
FIRST DRAFT OUTLINE, 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection: Volume 1 (previously titled FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS) and BONUS COMPANION BOOKLET
Writing Reference
Available now in electronic and paperback
http://www.writers-exchange.com/3d-fiction-fundamentals-series/
 
BONE OF MY BONE, Book 7: Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series
Romantic Paranormal Horror
Coming 2023 in electronic and paperback
http://www.writers-exchange.com/Karen-Wiesner.html 
 
MISCELLANY
 
Check out my Author Pages!
Writers Exchange: http://www.writers-exchange.com/Karen-Wiesner/ and http://www.writers-exchange.com/blog/
Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Karen%20Wiesner
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/karenwiesner
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/karenwiesner
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KarenWiesnerAuthor
 
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
 
Look for my WIP Moments on my Facebook Author Page http://www.facebook.com/KarenWiesnerAuthor where I'll be posting about what I'm working on and the progress I'm making with each stage of my projects. You can also follow my progress here: https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/works-in-progress.html
 
In December, I:
 
-Drew (in preparation for eventually illustrating children's books)
 
-Wrote new articles for Alien Romance Blog https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/ 
 
In January, I'll be:
 
-Drawing
 
In February, I'll be:
 
Researching/outlining EXILED HEARTS, Book 7: Peaceful Pilgrim Series (2024)
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/peaceful-pilgrims-series.html
 
-Revising LOST AND FOUND, A Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series 2-in-1 including LOST and FOUND, Books 8 and 9 (2023); sending out for critique
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series.html
 
2023 WIP Goals: https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/works-in-progress.html
 
Feel free to direct your friends to this newsletter!
 
Karen Wiesner 

In the first of four posts, I deal with how writers can get their muses to work *with* rather than *against* them. Check out "The Four Myths Your Muse Desperately Wants You to Believe, Part 1", based on the newly reissued FIRST DRAFT OUTLINE, Volume 1 of the 3D Fiction Fundamentals Collection, here:
https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-four-myths-your-muse.html

What New Year's resolutions have you made when it comes to writing? My new article "Two Crucial Writing Goal Sheets", up at Alien Romances Blog, might help you with that. Check it out here: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/two-crucial-writing-goal-sheets-by.html

$1.99 Christmas Specials from Writers Exchange E-Publishing including three of my books and several other fantastic authors!
 
https://www.writers-exchange.com/

$1.99 Christmas Specials from Writers Exchange E-Publishing including three of my books and several other fantastic authors!
 
https://www.writers-exchange.com/

$1.99 Christmas Specials from Writers Exchange E-Publishing including three of my books and several other fantastic authors!
 
https://www.writers-exchange.com/

Shotgun Wedding
 
A Christmas Novel by Karen Wiesner
 
Trevor and Eden were married right out of high school. She'd believed she was pregnant, but that hadn't been her sole motivation. Wildly in love with Trevor Johnson, she'd worried he was becoming disenchanted with her, his attention consumed by the needy and seductive Delaney Foster who came to Amethyst every year with her family. In the years Eden and Trever have been married, she's never felt quite secure in the belief that he married her by choice, in love.
 
During the Christmas season, plagued by unspoken guilt and doubts, she finds herself again competing with a soon-to-be divorced, distraught, and disgustingly gorgeous Delaney. Eden is obsessively aware she's no longer as young, thin, or sexy as she'd been before she had three sons.
 
To top off her growing stress, Eden has discovered she and Trevor's oldest son and his girlfriend, in their senior year of high school, are sexually active. The last thing they need is another shotgun wedding and the potential that a marriage undertaken for the sake of a baby isn't necessarily one of choice or love.
 
Available in paperback or ebook! Also available in the Adventures in Amethyst Trio of Holiday Romances--three interconnected holiday stories (Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas) in one volume!
 
Find out more here:
 
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series.html
 
https://www.writers-exchange.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series/ 

Adventures in Amethyst Trio of Holiday Romances by Karen Wiesner
 
Just in time for Christmas--and it's never too late to enjoy Halloween and Thanksgiving stories!
 
Three holiday stories in one volume!
 
Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange)
 
(3 in 1 volume) including:
 
Halloween: NEVER A BRIDE, Book 11: Once upon a time, Ben Johnson believed he had forever sewn up with Layla. But fairy tales rarely come true in reality. Long before her nephew was in a hunting accident and she blamed Ben for not preventing it, the two of them had broken up, citing irreconcilable differences. Layla hadn't wanted his family to know the truth. Following the accident, she walked out--for good, he assumed.
 
Charlize Seagrave never fit in anywhere, drawn to danger, darkness, and drugs. For years, she was the guitarist and songwriter for a death-metal band and involved with the frontman who only encouraged her deadly addictions. In order to hide from Freyr, Charlize checked herself rehab. Later, clean--another first in her life--she attended her new friend's wedding and met Ben. Despite their instant connection, he was supposedly in a committed relationship and she had no interest whatsoever in commitment. If only Ben wasn't so unlike every other person she's ever known. If only she didn't feel like he alone understands and gets her.
 
When Charlize returns to Amethyst at Halloween, Ben knows loneliness has nothing to do with his feelings for her. His attraction to her the last time she was in Amethyst wasn't something he was comfortable with, despite that he and Layla had broken up even before his family learned of the fact. But now Layla is implying she's had a change of heart. Ben wonders if this is all getting too complicated...or if the solution is as simple as a kiss.
 
Thanksgiving: UNLUCKY IN LOVE, Book 12: Layla Dupriest's father was killed in a hunting accident when she was a child so, when the man who was once the love of her life, Benji Johnson, encourages her nephew to go hunting and he's hurt, she blames Ben. Months later, she can see she wasn't fair.
 
Adam Schaefer has loved Tally Johnson, Benji's sister, since he was a teenager, but his love of flying and freedom surpassed anything that might clip his wings like a wife, monogamy, marriage, and settling down. The last thing he expected was for her to fall for his best friend--and to have that man's baby.
 
Unlucky in love and unable to count their blessings during the Thanksgiving holiday, Layla and Adam find themselves jilted at the same time. Heartbroken, snowed in, and forced to share the only available cabin in town, they have no choice but to re-evaluate everything they've ever wanted in life...and love.
 
Christmas: SHOTGUN WEDDING, Book 13: Trevor and Eden were married right out of high school. She'd believed she was pregnant, but that hadn't been her sole motivation. Wildly in love with Trevor Johnson, she'd worried he was becoming disenchanted with her, his attention consumed by the needy and seductive Delaney Foster who came to Amethyst every year with her family. In the years Eden and Trever have been married, she's never felt quite secure in the belief that he married her by choice, in love.
 
During the Christmas season, plagued by unspoken guilt and doubts, she finds herself again competing with a soon-to-be divorced, distraught, and disgustingly gorgeous Delaney. Eden is obsessively aware she's no longer as young, thin, or sexy as she'd been before she had three sons.
 
To top off her growing stress, Eden has discovered she and Trevor's oldest son and his girlfriend, in their senior year of high school, are sexually active. The last thing they need is another shotgun wedding and the potential that a marriage undertaken for the sake of a baby isn't necessarily one of choice or love.
 
Price: $9.99 (ebook), $19.99 (paperback)
Publisher: http://www.writers-exchange.com/trio-of-holiday-romances/
Amazon: http://mybook.to/AdventuresAmethystTrio
Apple Books US: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6443487713
Apple Books AU: https://books.apple.com/au/book/id6443487713
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=m0KLEAAAQBAJ
Barnes & Noble (Nook ebook) and Print: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.../a-trio-of.../1142312028
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-trio-of-holiday-romances
Kobo AU: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/a-trio-of-holiday-romances
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/../A-Trio-of-Holiday-Romances...
Amazon Print:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BFV2FFBS
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BFV2FFBS
Angus & Robertson Australia Print: Coming Soon
 
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https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series.html
 
Available in paperback and ebook format in one volume or separately! 

In the final of a three-part commentary using author Christopher Paolini's two series, I talk about the conundrum of how important presentation is with massive sagas on the Alien Romances Blog. Presentation is King, Part 3 is up now: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king_02089261396.html
 
If you missed the first two parts, they’re here:
 
Part 1: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king.html
 
Part 2: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king_01963401706.html

In a new three-part commentary using author Christopher Paolini's two series, I talk about the conundrum of how important presentation is with massive sagas on the Alien Romances Blog. Presentation is King, Part 2 is up now here: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king_01963401706.html
 
If you missed Part 1, it’s here: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king.html

In a new three-part commentary using author Christopher Paolini's two series, I talk about the conundrum of how important presentation is with massive sagas on the Alien Romances Blog. Part 1 is up now here: https://aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/2022/12/karen-s-wiesner-presentation-is-king.html