(Cover Art Designed by Karen Wiesner)

Waiting for an Eclipse reissue (Wounded Warriors Series, Book 2) Karen Wiesner, the founder of Jewels of the Quill, is an accomplished author with 70 books published in the past 11 years, which have been nominated/won 96 awards, and 13 more titles contracted for spanning many genres and formats. Besides her writing, Karen enjoys designing websites and graphics for her pages, and designing cover art and logos for books. You can view her designs at Karen's Cover Art Designs. Karen's Incognito Series (romantic action/adventure/suspenses) is published by Whiskey Creek Press. The following are now available: NO ORDINARY LOVE, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART, BOUNTY ON THE REBEL'S HEART, DEAD DROP, UNDER THE SPELL, RENEGADE'S ROSE, UNDERCOVER ANGEL, HARD TO HANDLE, and DANCE IN SHADOWS. Upcoming releases include: HYPNOTIZED (January 2010), MIND GAMES (October 2010), and DARK APPROACH (March 2011). The Incognito Series has won and/or finaled in FTHRW's Lories' Best Proposal and Best Publishing contests, the L-Edit Slip contest, EPIC's EPPIE Award, The Romance Studio's Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance's Reviewer's Choice Award, Fallen Angel Reviews' Recommended Read Award, The Long and Short of It's (LASR) Best Romance of the Year Award and their highest review rating--Best Book, Manic Readers' featured review status, and RT Book Reviews' Top Pick review award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Fallen Angel Reviews, LASR, ReviewYourBook.com, Dark Diva Reviews, as well 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the Incognito Series covers herself. Starting in 2010, look for the first release in Karen's new inspirational romantic mystery trilogy called Denim Blues Mysteries. RETIRED AND ON THE ROCKS (Book 1) will be released June 2010 from Whiskey Creek Press. LOVE IS BLIND...AND IT DON'T PAY THE BILLS EITHER (Book 2) will be out June 2011 and SOULS ON (B)ORING STREET (Book 3) will come out in October 2011. Karen designed the covers herself. Karen also writes police procedural mysteries with award-winning author Chris Spindler of Auenwald, Germany. The following are available now: DEGREES OF SEPARATION, TEARS ON STONE, THE FIFTEENTH LETTER, ROMANTIC NOTIONS, AND FALCON'S BEND CASE FILES, Volumes I and II. The Falcon’s Bend Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart Award, the L-Edit Slip contest, RT Book Reviews Top Pick review award and EPIC’s EPPIE Award. The series has also received 5 star reviews from The Romance Studio, Huntress Reviews, Dark Angel Reviews, and Coffee Time Romance, as well as 4 1/2 stars from RT Book Reviews. Karen designed all the covers and the series logo. Visit Karen and Chris' Falcon's Bend Community, where you'll find updates and information about the series. Karen's inspirational romantic suspense, THE BLOODMOON CURSE (a 2006 Ecataromance Reviewer's Choice Award nominee, a 2006 Dream Ream Award finalist, a Fallen Angel Reviews Recommended Read, as well as the recipient of multiple 5 star reviews), is published by Samhain Publishing, as is her newest inspirational romance series, Family Heirlooms. The following are now available: BABY, BABY, SHADOW BOXING, and FOOLISH GAMES. The Family Heirlooms Series has won and/or finaled for The Romance Studio’s Sweetheart and CAPA Awards, Ecataromance Reviewer’s Choice Award, and WDRF's Top Read of Excellence, their highest review rating. Karen's series' with Hard Shell Word Factory include the Gypsy Road Series, the Angelfire Trilogy, and Dare to Love Series (all contemporary romances). Her fiction from Hard Shell has been nominated for multiple RT Reviewer's Choice Awards, the Daphne du Maurier Award, FTHRW's The Lories Best Published Contest, and several EPPIE Awards. Click on the Romantic Fiction button above for more information. Uncial Press has published UNTIL IT'S GONE, Book 5 of Karen's Wounded Warriors Series as well as reissued RELUCTANT HEARTS (Book 1) and WAITING FOR AN ECLIPSE (Book 2) in electronic formats. Look for electronic reissues of MIRROR MIRROR (Book 3), January 2010; and WAYWARD ANGELS (Book 4), March 2010 from Uncial. WHITE RAINBOW, the sixth and final book in the series, an inspirational romance, will be released Summer 2010. Trade paperback versions will be available for each book in the series. Karen designed the new covers for the series. Karen's first writing reference title with Writer's Digest Books, FIRST DRAFT IN 30 DAYS, is a bestseller available wherever writing reference titles are sold. Writer's Digest Book Club released it as a Main Selection in March 2005. You can find more information and the bonus website advertised in the book by clicking on the First Draft in 30 Days button. Karen's second release from Writer's Digest Books was FROM FIRST DRAFT TO FINISHED NOVEL {A Writer's Guide to Cohesive Story Building}, available now. THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS details how published authors can set up a promotional group (like Karen's own, Jewels of the Quill). The reference book is available now in electronic formats from Twilight Times Books. THE POWER OF PROMOTIONAL GROUPS was a 2009 EPPIE Award finalist. Karen has contributed novellas to all the Jewels of the Quill anthologies. Most recently, Revenge in Amethyst (Story 2 of her Adventures in Amethyst Series) in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume III) and Papa (Book 1 of her romantic horror series, Woodcutter's Grim) in the first Jewels of the Quill Halloween anthology, SHADOWS IN THE HEART. TALES III won the 2008 EPPIE Award and was also nominated in the RT Book Reviews Reviewer's Choice Awards! Also available now is the second book in her Woodcutter's Grim Series, Blood of Amethyst, in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume IV. Perfect Cadence,"Book 1 of her Kaleidoscope Series, is now available in CHRISTMAS WISHES, Jewels of the Quill's second Christmas anthology; In Cahoots With Cupid, Book 2 in her Kaleidoscope Series, available in MAGICAL KISSES, Jewels of the Quill's second Valentine's Day anthology, which is a 2010 EPIC Award finalist; and Behind Amethyst Eyes, Book 3 in her Kaleidoscope Series, available in TALES FROM THE TREASURE TROVE, Volume V, A Jewels of the Quill Anthology. Karen's first Dame collection, DAME AMETHYST TREASURES, is now available. ADVENTURES IN AMETHYST SERIES, her second Dame collection, is also now available. Her WOODCUTTER'S GRIM SERIES collection has also been released. WOODCUTTER'S GRIM SERIES received Dark Angel Reviews' Recommended Read, their highest review! It was also a 2008 Dream Realm Award winner in the anthology category. Look for the KALEIDOSCOPE SERIES collection with the first five books in the series published in Jewels of the Quill anthologies, plus 2 bonus stories in the series never before published: Cabin Fever (Book 6) and The Longest Night (Book 7), coming December 2010 from WCP. To find out what Karen is working on now, click here. Click on the Books & Awards button below to purchase any of Karen's books.