Karen S. Wiesner is a prolific American novelist, writing reference author, freelance editor, and book blurb specialist whose Writer's Digest bestseller First Draft in 30 Days has been adopted by writing groups, MFA programs, and working novelists since 2005. She has published more than one hundred forty titles across twenty-five years spanning romance, suspense, mystery, paranormal, thriller, science fiction, gothic, inspirational, horror, action and adventure, children's books, poetry, and writing reference. Her books have been nominated for or won more than one hundred thirty awards.
First Draft in 30 Days: A Novel Writer's System for Building a Complete and Cohesive Manuscript lays out a thirty-day outlining method designed to produce an outline so detailed it doubles as a first draft and reduces the rewrite burden later. The book includes day-by-day schedules, dozens of worksheets, sample worksheets drawn from real published novels, and a flexible structure writers can modify to fit their own creative process. The follow-up, From First Draft to Finished Novel, picks up where the outline ends and walks the writer through revision into a polished manuscript.
Her other writing references include Writing the Fiction Series: The Guide for Novels and Novellas, Bring Your Fiction to Life: Crafting Three-Dimensional Stories with Depth and Complexity, Cohesive Story Building, Writing Blurbs That Sizzle and Sell, The Power of Promotional Groups, and CPR for Dead or Lifeless Fiction: A Writer's Guide to Deep and Multifaceted Development and Progression of Characters, Plots, and Relationships.
Her fiction includes the multi-award-winning Incognito series (romantic action, adventure, and suspense), the Arrow of Time Chronicles romantic science fiction series (Immutable, Inevitable, Indelible, and Indomitable), the Denim Blues Mysteries cozy series, the Angelfire II Quartet, and dozens of standalones across genres. She is a member of Romance Writers of America and a frequent writing-conference speaker.
