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New Updates and Series Combination: Angelfire Series

3/10/2025

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Just finished the updates to this series, used to be Angelfire Trilogy and Angelfire II Quartet. But now we've combined the original character romances with their friends to be one series!

Angelfire 7-Book Romance Series by Karen Wiesner

There are no scars like those inflicted in childhood, and no love like your first.
Heaven's promise, desires flame...
Timeless couples seek out the unconditional love and healing of an angel and the scorching heat of unending passion.

Series Page: https://www.writers-exchange.com/angelfire-series/

Amazon Series Page: https://amzn.to/4hZnuRB

#romance #romancebooks #romancenovels #contemporaryromance #books #reading #bookblogger #WritersExchangeEPublishing 

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Falcon's Bend Series Complete Ebook Boxed Set Collection for only $16.99!

1/29/2025

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A VERY GOOD, ALL NEW DEAL (or should I say steal)!
 
Falcon's Bend Series Collection (9 ebooks in 1 volume) for only $16.99!
by Karen Wiesner and Chris Spindler
3292 pages/15439 KB (due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download) Publication date: January 25, 2025
ASIN: B0DV4PFS71
 
This ebook boxed set collects every single story available in Karen & Chris's Falcon's Bend Series (Mystery/Police Procedural) including all six of the full-length novels and each of the 17 short stories compiled in the Case Files volumes.
 
Falcon's Bend is a small, sleepy town in Wisconsin that owns more taverns than churches, but fills both on the appropriate days. Teenagers talk of escape from the one-horse town because nothing ever seems to happen. But, even here in the Heartland, police investigators Pete Shasta, Danny Vincent and Amber Carfi fight a never-ending battle to keep their beloved families and hometown safe and sound.
 
Purchase from any of the retailers listed on the official Falcon's Bend Series Collection page:
https://www.writers-exchange.com/falcons-bend-series-collection/
 
Find out more about Falcon's Bend Series:
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/falcons-bend-series.html
https://www.writers-exchange.com/falcons-bend-series/

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New Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series Release! HELL HATH NO FURY by Karen Wiesner

12/13/2024

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Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series: Hell Hath No Fury by Karen Wiesner
Genre: Paranormal: Ghost Stories/Halloween Romance
ISBN: 978-1-922548-70-2 (ebook); 9798230560500 (print)
ASIN: B0DQ419T42
Word Count: 128,857
 
Nestled on Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin is a small, secluded town called Bloodmoon Cove with volatile weather, suspicious folk...and newly awakened ghosts. Don't close your eyes...
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned...
 
Just out of college, Belladonna Mateo has invested with her two childhood best friends--Ori Williams and Marsh Crichton--in opening a boutique in Madison, Wisconsin that specializes in their combined, unique talents. When her mother dies, suddenly Bella's share of the investment dwindles to nothing, and all their plans seem in jeopardy. That is, until Bella learns she's inherited an old ruin of a house in Bloodmoon Cove. Without the financial means to otherwise go forward with their career plans, the house seems like a boon. While the town is little more than a speck on the map in Erie County, the northern Wisconsin location has some business potential considering there's nothing like what they'll be offering for an hour in any direction. The house is certainly big enough to provide not only the workshop and retail space they require, but also living space for all three of them, including Bella's younger half-brother when he visits.
 
Bella and Marsh travel to Bloodmoon Cove to get things set up, finding only minor renovation is needed despite that the imposing tower was damaged in a lightning storm more than 50 years ago and there may be toxic mold in the attic. Bella and Marsh joke about the house being haunted because of weird disturbances, but Bella can't shake that one ghost in particular is trying desperately to communicate with her. Her great grandfather was an illegal alien who left Cuba to escape a suicidally unhappy girl with just one solace in her life…
 
Book: https://www.writers-exchange.com/hell-hath-no-fury/
Series: https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series.html

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New Release: Lost and Found, Books 8 and 9, A Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series 2-in-1 (2 stories in one volume) by Karen Wiesner

3/8/2024

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Writers Exchange E-Publishing is thrilled to announce our latest book...
 
Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series, Books 8 and 9: Lost and Found
A Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series 2-in-1 (2 stories in one volume) by Karen Wiesner
Genre: Ghost Stories/Romance
ISBN: 978-1-922548-63-4
ISBN PRINT D2D: 9798224152193
ASIN: B0CW6L2G7V
Word Count: 101, 661
 
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series.html
https://www.writers-exchange.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series/
 
Lost, Book 8:
True self-discovery begins in being lost and then found again.
Damaris Steele wakes up in an unfamiliar stone cottage in the care of a kindly couple with a passel of young children. She remembers nothing of how she came to be at their inherited property, Black Annis's Bower, nor how she got the massive bump on the back of her head and ended up lost in the middle of nowhere in Bloodmoon Cove with a smashed cell phone, her beloved hamster Stuart Little missing. The large family will contribute nothing toward speeding her on her way. Their words "Time is different in this place" take on a sinister edge when days and nights blend and blur while the Beaumonts' sole interest seems to be focused on unearthing a tunnel they found in their root cellar. Even as she realizes she's helpless to resist aiding them in their task, Damaris fears where the underground passage leads and whether their efforts will uncage something they don't dare set free…
 
Found, Book 9:
Are the lost and found souls of this world misplaced…or misled?
Wick Adair has spent his life feeling like he didn't belong anywhere and was forever out of step with everyone else around him. As the son of some of the last Mino-Miskwi Native American descendants, his isolation while the tribe around him dispersed to the four winds was complete. He settled into his quiet position at Bloodmoon Cove's library and nearly lost himself in his desperate unhappiness. When Renatta Chazen steps into his sanctuary, Wick dares to hope that his lifelong loneliness is at an end. Surely Fate…or something far more sinister…wouldn't be cruel enough to tear them apart now that they've both found everything they've ever wanted?
 
Publisher: https://www.writers-exchange.com/lost-and-found/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW6L2G7V
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/bone-of-my-bone/id6463510053
Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=qMT4EAAAQBAJ
Barnes & Noble (Nook ebook) and Print: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/.../bone-of-my.../1143997682
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/bone-of-my-bone
Everand (previously called Scribd): https://www.everand.com/.../Bone-of-My-Bone-Bloodmoon...
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1442712
Amazon Print:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWYFW2Y7
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CWYFW2Y7
Angus & Robertson Australia Print: Coming Soon, see Publisher page for updates
(print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Angus & Robertson)
 
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#books #reading #bookblogger #WritersExchangeEPublishing

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New Release, New Review: Hearts Ablaze, Book 4: Peaceful Pilgrims Series

12/4/2023

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Just in time for Christmas, a brand new release that takes place over the holidays!
 
"The hero and heroine of this novel face a genuine problem with no facile, obvious solution. I could hardly wait to find out how they would resolve the conflict between their needs and wishes. They’re both well-developed characters with whom it’s easy to sympathize. The external conflict incited by a malicious co-worker meshes effectively with Blaze and Riley’s marital difficulties. The small-town setting and the cast of engaging secondary characters enrich the story. The reader gets a clear impression of a self-contained world that has been going on since before the novel starts and will continue after it ends, yet HEARTS ABLAZE stands perfectly fine on its own with no need to have read other books in the series. The conclusion struck me as entirely satisfactory even though realistically imperfect. Riley may not get what she wanted at first, but both she and Blaze learn and grow through the experience." ~award-winning author Margaret L. Carter
 
HEARTS ABLAZE, Book 4: Peaceful Pilgrim Series
by Karen Wiesner
Women's Fiction
Available now in paperback and electronic formats
 
Riley is an ultra-modern woman. She wants a successful career, her own life, and love that sets her heart ablaze. In short, she wants everything. Blaze is old-fashioned, believing marriage means a husband and wife live together, sleep together every night, and eventually raise a family together--and those kids don't spend most of their hours in daycare. There's simply no compromise in the world that could make this thing work.
 
Find out more about this series:
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/peaceful-pilgrims-series.html
https://www.writers-exchange.com/a-peaceful-pilgrim-novel-series/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MQLC4XN?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tkin_tpbk

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New Release: HEARTS ABLAZE, Book 4: Peaceful Pilgrim Series

11/30/2023

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Just in time for Christmas, a brand new release that takes place over the holidays!
 
HEARTS ABLAZE, Book 4: Peaceful Pilgrim Series
by Karen Wiesner
Women's Fiction
Available now in paperback and electronic formats
 
Riley is an ultra-modern woman. She wants a successful career, her own life, and love that sets her heart ablaze. In short, she wants everything. Blaze is old-fashioned, believing marriage means a husband and wife live together, sleep together every night, and eventually raise a family together--and those kids don't spend most of their hours in daycare. There's simply no compromise in the world that could make this thing work.
 
Find out more about this series:
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/peaceful-pilgrims-series.html
https://www.writers-exchange.com/a-peaceful-pilgrim-novel-series/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MQLC4XN?binding=kindle_edition&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_tkin_tpbk

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BONE OF MY BONE, Book 7: Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series Reviews

10/20/2023

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I received 2 new reviews for BONE OF MY BONE, Book 7: Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series:
 
5 Stars! "To say that I enjoyed this eerie story would be a huge understatement. Wiesner managed to send a chill up my spine not once, but twice. That does not happen often. It is testament to how potent the poison is on the tip of her pen. Hey, Writers Exchange, publish this series faster!" ~Detra Fitch for Huntress Reviews

5 Stars! “BONE OF MY BONE is the 7th book in Karen Wiesner’s Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series. What a spooky novel. I just loved it! My heart went out to the little girl who eventually named herself Ice. I could see Bennet’s love for her even from the start. This story had me fretting from moment to moment about what would happen. I can hardly wait to read the next in the series!” ~Linda's Reviews
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https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series.html
https://www.writers-exchange.com/bloodmoon-cove-spirits-series/

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New Release: BONE OF MY BONE, Book 7: Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series by Karen Wiesner

8/30/2023

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Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange) is thrilled to announce our latest book...

Publisher: http://www.writers-exchange.com/bone-of-my-bone/

Amazon: http://mybook.to/BloodmoonCove7

Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/book/id6463510053

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=MiTTEAAAQBAJ

Barnes & Noble (Nook ebook) and Print: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1143997682

Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/en/ebook/bone-of-my-bone
Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/.../Bone-of-My-Bone-Bloodmoon-Cove...

Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1442712

Amazon Print:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGLH6HB6
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0CGLH6HB6

Angus & Robertson Australia Print: Coming Later

(print is available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Angus & Robertson)

#romance #romancebooks #romancenovels #paranormal #paranormalbooks #paranormalromance
#books #reading #bookblogger #WritersExchangeEPublishing
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$1.99 Christmas Special: For Auld Lang Syne by Karen Wiesner

12/18/2022

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

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$1.99 Christmas Novel Shotgun Wedding by Karen Wiesner

12/18/2022

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

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Christmas Novel: Shotgun Wedding by Karen Wiesner

12/18/2022

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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/ 

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Adventures in Amethyst Trio of Holiday Romances

12/18/2022

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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
 
#romance #romancebooks #romancenovels #contemporaryromance #books #reading #bookblogger #WritersExchangeEPublishing
 
https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series.html
 
Available in paperback and ebook format in one volume or separately! 

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Just in time for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and it's never too late to enjoy a Halloween story!

11/5/2022

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​Just in time for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and it's never too late to enjoy a Halloween story!
 
Three holiday stories in one volume!

Adventures in Amethyst Trio of Holiday Romances by Karen Wiesner
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
#romance #romancebooks #romancenovels #contemporaryromance #books #reading #bookblogger #WritersExchangeEPublishing

​https://karenwiesner.weebly.com/adventures-in-amethyst-series.html

Available in paperback and ebook format in one volume or separately!
 

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Three holiday stories in one volume!

9/30/2022

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Just in time for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! Three holiday stories in one volume!

Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange) is thrilled to announce our latest book...
 
Adventures in Amethyst Trio of Holiday Romances by Karen Wiesner
 
(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)
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Final three offerings in the Adventures in Amethyst Series available now!

5/14/2022

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The final three offerings in the Adventures in Amethyst Series are available now in paperback and ebook formats!
 
ADVENTURES IN AMETHYST TRIO OF HOLIDAY ROMANCES
 
This trio of stories is what I intend to be the final offering in a long series, where I came to know and love whole families, lifers in my small, made-up town of Amethyst, Wisconsin: the Roses, the Masons, the Maraseks, the Wootens, and the Johnsons, not to mention Scott Romero, his cousin Sheila Mason and her adorable son Dev, Jeb Duncan and the mess of kids he and Sheila have together, Quinn Rutledge and Summer Rosales, Briar Sankey, and Donnie Garner.
              
Now that I've gotten to the point of finishing this trio of interconnected stories that flow into one another, moving in a linear way through the holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, I'm not sure I want to say goodbye to any of these characters I've lived with for so many years as if they were real-life friends or even family. There are so many other stories I could tell in this rich landscape. Who knows? Maybe another story idea for the series will come to me in the future. Jo and Madd (Joelle and Maddox) Johnson? Calvin and Kenzie Johnson? Cobi Johnson and Ree? Aberle? Apple and Clay's insane parents? Any one of the interesting "ancillary" people and families introduced over the course of the series? Maybe. But right now the series feels complete. I can't wait for fans to read this potentially final offering. I hope everyone who does will fall in love with the town of Amethyst, Wisconsin, and the unforgettable people who live there the way I have over the course of writing the Adventures in Amethyst Series.
 
Amethyst, WI is a small, peaceful town on a pristine lake with an active tourist season in summer. When the air turns chill, the area is transformed into a ghost town with only a handful of lifers who stay. Populated with colorful characters, Amethyst is bursting with mystery, romance, and jealousy. Come and visit a place where anything is possible all-year-round.
 
NEVER A BRIDE, Book 11 (Halloween novel)
 
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 into 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.
 
UNLUCKY IN LOVE, Book 12 (Thanksgiving novel)
 
Layla Dupriest's father was killed in a hunting accident when she was a child and, though her family is made up of avid hunters, she can't get over the loss her mother suffered. The once-upon-a-time love of Layla's life, Benji Johnson, encourages her nephew Jack to go hunting and he's hurt in an accident that so easily could have proved fatal. Distraught and reeling, Layla blames Benji and walks out.
 
By the time she comes to grips with reality, months have passed. She's changed, and she can see in hindsight she wasn't fair to Benji. They'd broken up long before the accident yet she'd asked him not to tell his family, who'd become as close as her own. Despite that she can't seem to escape the sense she and Ben aren't meant to be, she's found it nearly impossible to let go of the dreams they'd built for a future together.
              
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 in love with 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 by a person they assumed was their soulmate. 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.
 
SHOTGUN WEDDING, Book 13 (Christmas story)
 
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.
 
Coming September 2022 in paperback and electronic formats:
 
ADVENTURES IN AMETHYST TRIO OF HOLIDAY ROMANCES (3-in-1 collection) including NEVER A BRIDE, Book 11; UNLUCKY IN LOVE, Book 12; and SHOTGUN WEDDING, Book 13
 
Find out more about these books and series here:
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3D Fiction Fundamentals by Karen S. Wiesner Coming Soon

4/12/2022

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Coming soon!
by award-winning author Karen S. Wiesner covers the A to Z's of crafting the highest quality fiction including how to:

  • Brainstorm and work productively to ensure that each stage in the writing process from prewriting to polishing produces masterful results the first time around.
 
  • Create an outline so complete it actually qualifies as the first draft of your book, allowing your first written draft to be final-draft quality.
 
  • Develop realistically three-dimensional and cohesive characters, plots, settings, relationships, and scenes so life-like and memorable your readers will be diehard fans.
 
  • Effectively prepare for a series in advance to prevent painted-in-a-corner scenarios in order to keep fans coming back eagerly for each and every installment.
 
  • Learn innovative techniques to write a complex sequence of stories that require overarching series arcs and immense world- and character-building.
 
  • Craft sizzling back cover, series, and high-concept blurbs for describing, promoting, and selling your books.
 
  • Maximize your potential and momentum for becoming a career author indefinitely.
 
With step-by-step guidelines, instructions, and tips throughout that are flexible and clearly written, imparting a layman's ease of understanding and can-do motivation, this collection may be the only writing craft books you'll ever need. Each volume has a bonus companion booklet available presented in usable digital format or paperback that includes all the aids from the main book that you can use in your own writing--and extras!
    The seven volumes and bonus companion booklets in this collection are:
 
 1. First Draft Outline formerly published by Writer's Digest Books as First Draft in 30 Days {A Novel Writer's System for Building a Complete and Cohesive Manuscript}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for First Draft Outline
 
 2. Cohesive Story Building formerly published by Writer's Digest Books as From First Draft to Finished Novel {A Writer's Guide to Cohesive Story Building}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for Cohesive Story Building
 
 3. Writing the Standalone Series formerly published by Writer's Digest Books as Writing the Fiction Series {The Complete Guide for Novels and Novellas}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for Writing the Standalone Series
 
 4. Writing the Overarching Series {or How I Sent a Clumsy Girl into Outer Space}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for Writing the Overarching Series
 
 5. Three-Dimensional Fiction Writing formerly published by Writer's Digest Books as Bring Your Fiction to Life {Crafting Three-Dimensional Stories with Depth and Complexity}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for Three-Dimensional Fiction Writing
 
                               
 6. CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction {A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships}
               Bonus Companion Booklet for CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction
 
 7. Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell!
               Bonus Companion Booklet for Writing Blurbs That Sizzle--And Sell!
 
Find out more here:
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New release! Never a Bride, Book 11: Adventures in Amethyst Series

3/28/2022

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New release! 
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New Christmas Story Release: Shotgun Wedding (Adventures in Amethyst Series, Book 13)

12/23/2021

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A Christmas story just in time for the holidays! Ebook newly available--only $4.99; trade paperback edition coming soon
 
SHOTGUN WEDDING, Book 13: Adventures in Amethyst Series (Christmas)
Contemporary Romance Novel
Also to be available in ADVENTURES IN AMETHYST TRIO OF HOLIDAY ROMANCES Collection
 
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.
 
Read an excerpt and purchase from the publisher:
http://www.writers-exchange.com/shotgun-wedding/
 
Purchase from Amazon:
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New Release: Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series Into the Sun, Part 3

9/11/2021

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Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange) is thrilled to announce our latest release:
 
Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series
Into the Sun, Part 3
by Karen Wiesner

 
Publisher: http://www.writers-exchange.com/into-the-sun/
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New Release: Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series A New Beginning, Part 2

9/11/2021

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​Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange) is thrilled to announce our latest release:
 
Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series
A New Beginning, Part 2
by Karen Wiesner
 
Publisher: http://www.writers-exchange.com/a-new-beginning/
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New Release: Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series Out of the Ashes, Part 1

9/11/2021

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​Writers Exchange E-Publishing (https://www.facebook.com/Writers.Exchange) is thrilled to announce our latest release:
 
Bridge of Fire, Book 10: Woodcutter’s Grim Series
Out of the Ashes, Part 1
by Karen Wiesner

 
Publisher: http://www.writers-exchange.com/out-of-the-ashes/
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