Anne Frasier
| Anne Frasier | |
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| Born | Burlington, Iowa, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1988–present |
| Genres | thriller, suspense, mystery, crime fiction, paranormal, horror, romance, memoir |
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www.annefrasier.com |
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Anne Frasier (born c. 1950s) is a pseudonym for Theresa Weir.
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[edit] Biography
Anne Frasier (a.k.a. Theresa Weir) is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of twenty-one books and numerous short stories that have spanned the genres of suspense, mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, paranormal, and memoir. Her titles have been printed in both hardcover and paperback and translated into twenty languages. Her memoir, The Orchard, was a 2011 Oprah Magazine Fall Pick, Number Two on the Indie Next list, a featured B+ review in Entertainment Weekly, and a Librarians’ Best Books of 2011. Going back to 1988, Weir’s debut title was the cult phenomenon AMAZON LILY, initially published by Pocket Books and later reissued by Bantam Books. Writing as Theresa Weir she won a RITA for romantic suspense (COOL SHADE), and a year later the Daphne du Maurier for paranormal romance (BAD KARMA). In her more recent Anne Frasier career, her thriller and suspense titles hit the USA Today list (HUSH, SLEEP TIGHT, PLAY DEAD) and were featured in Mystery Guild, Literary Guild, and Book of the Month Club. HUSH was both a RITA and Daphne du Maurier finalist. Well-known in the mystery community, she served as hardcover judge for the Thriller presented by International Thriller Writers, and was guest of honor at the Diversicon 16 mystery/science fiction conference held in Minneapolis in 2008. Frasier books have received high praise from print publications such as Publishers Weekly, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and Crimespree, as well as online praise from Spinetingler, Book Loons, Armchair Interviews, Sarah Weinman’s Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, and Ali Karim’s Shots Magazine. Her books have featured cover quotes from Lisa Gardner, Jane Ann Krentz, Linda Howard, Kay Hooper, and J.A. Konrath. Her short stories and poetry can be found in DISCOUNT NOIR, ONCE UPON A CRIME, and THE LINEUP, POEMS ON CRIME. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and International Thriller Writers.
Recent releases:
The Orchard — Theresa Weir memoir (hardcover) September 2011 Grand Central Publishing Deadly Treats — Halloween anthology edited and compiled by Anne Frasier (trade paperback) September 2011 Nodin Press Max Under the Stars— Theresa Weir digital-only short story/fantasy, 2011
Theresa Weir was born in Burlington, Iowa, a river town settled by German, Irish, and Dutch immigrants. Her blue-collar parents divorced when she was six, and the next twelve years were spent in poverty, moving to and from Florida, Iowa, California, Illinois, and New Mexico. She graduated from Artesia High School, Artesia, New Mexico. After high school she worked as a waitress, a factory worker at Albuquerque’s Levi Strauss (where she sewed the Levi’s logo on the back pocket of jeans), followed by a secretarial position at Wally's LP Gas in Santa Fe, New Mexico. At age nineteen, she joined her uncle at his bar in rural Illinois across the Mississippi River from her birthplace of Burlington, Iowa. While tending bar at the Pilot House, she met an apple farmer and the two married three months later. Shortly after moving to the farm, she began writing. Four years later she was offered a contract with Pocket Books and her first novel, the ground breaking and multi-award winning Amazon Lily (Theresa Weir), was published in 1988.
Frasier/Weir began writing in the mid 1980s. Her first manuscript, Amazon Lily (Theresa Weir), was rejected by multiple agents and publishers because they believed that her hero was unlikable. The novel finally sold and went on to win the Romantic Times Best Romantic Adventure Writer Award, but Frasier continued to encounter editors who disliked her characters. In Frasier's words, her characters are "imperfect people who had problems, who didn't always make the right choices, but in the end triumphed."[1] The characters have real, interesting problems, including a hero with agoraphobia and a heroine with an eating disorder.[1]
Her work has been popular with readers and fellow romance writers, however, and in 1999 she was awarded a Romance Writers of America RITA Award for Best Romantic Suspense for her novel Cool Shade.[2] She has also been awarded the Daphne du Maurier award for romantic suspense,[3] and she has been awarded Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and been nominated for a Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Long Night Moon.[4]
During her years of writing romance novels, Frasier's editors often asked her "to remove the blood and bodies" from her plots.[3] She decided that instead it would be easier for her to remove the romance and focus more completely on the mystery of the story. After several years, she found a publisher willing to allow her to move her writing into this new direction. Although she has now stopped releasing new romance novels, her thrillers do contain elements of romance.[3]
[edit] Books
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[edit] As Anne Frasier
- Hush, USA Today bestseller, RITA finalist, Daphne du Maurier finalist (2002)
- Sleep Tight, USA Today bestseller (2003)
- Play Dead, USA Today Bestseller (2004)
- Before I Wake (2005)
- Pale Immortal (2006)
- Garden of Darkness, RITA finalist (2007)
- Once Upon a Crime anthology, Santa's Little Helper (2009)
- The Lineup, Poems on Crime, Home (2010)
- Discount Noir anthology, Crack House (2010)
- Deadly Treats Halloween anthology, editor and contributor, The Replacement (September 2011)
- Once Upon a Crime anthology, Red Cadillac (March 2012)
[edit] As Theresa Weir
- Forever Man (1988)
- Amazon Lily, RITA finalist, Best New Adventure Writer award, Romantic Times (1988)
- Loving Jenny (1989)
- Pictures of Emily (1990)
- Iguana Bay (1990)
- Forever (1991)
- Last Summer (1992)
- One Fine Day (1994)
- Long Night Moon, Reviewers' Choice Award, Romantic Times (1995)
- American Dreamer (1997)
- Some Kind of Magic (1998)
- Cool Shade RITA winner, romantic suspense (1998)
- Bad Karma, Daphne du Maurier award, paranormal (1999)
- The Orchard, a memoir (September 2011)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Marble, Anne (November 20, 1998). "Taking a Risk with Anti-Heroes". All About Romance. http://www.likesbooks.com/wb11.html. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ "RITA Awards: Past Winners". Romance Writers of America. 2007. http://www.rwanational.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ a b c Bexte, Martina (August 2006). "Anne Frasier Knows How to Make Your Skin Crawl". Book Loons. http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Columns.asp?type=Interview&name=Anne%20Frasier. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ "Author Profile: Theresa Weir". Romantic Times. 2006. http://www.romantictimes.com/authors_profile.php?author=10976. Retrieved 2007-07-24.[dead link]
