Anne Frasier

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pseudonym = Theresa Weir
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birthplace = United States
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occupation = Novelist
nationality = American
period = 1988–present
genre = thriller, suspense, mystery, crime fiction, paranormal, horror, romance
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website = http://www.annefrasier.com/

Anne Frasier (born c. 1950s) is an American author of thriller novels. She has also written contemporary romance novels under the pseudonym Theresa Weir.

Biography

Frasier began writing in the early 1980s. Her first manuscript, "Amazon Lily", was rejected by multiple agents and publishers because they believed that her hero was unlikable. The novel finally sold, 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."cite web|last=Marble|first=Anne|title=Taking a Risk with Anti-Heroes|publisher=All About Romance|date=November 20, 1998|url=http://www.likesbooks.com/wb11.html|accessdate=2007-07-24] The characters have real, interesting problems, including a hero with agoraphobia and a heroine with an eating disorder.

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." [cite web|title=RITA Awards: Past Winners|publisher=Romance Writers of America|url=http://www.rwanational.org/cs/contests_and_awards/rita_awards/past_winners|date=2007|accessdate=2007-07-24] She has also been awarded the Daphne du Maurier award for romantic suspense,cite web|last=Bexte|first=Martina|title=Anne Frasier Knows How to Make Your Skin Crawl|publisher=Book Loons|date=August 2006|accessdate=2007-07-24|url=http://www.bookloons.com/cgi-bin/Columns.asp?type=Interview&name=Anne%20Frasier] and she has been awarded "Romantic Times" Career Achievement Award and been nominated for a "Romantic Times" Reviewer's Choice Award for "Long Night Moon". [cite web|title=Author Profile: Theresa Weir|publisher=Romantic Times|date=2006|url=http://www.romantictimes.com/authors_profile.php?author=10976|accessdate=2007-07-24]

During her years of writing romance novels, Frasier's editors often asked her "to remove the blood and bodies" from her plots. 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.

Books

As Anne Frasier

* "Hush" (2002)
* "Sleep Tight" (2003)
* "Play Dead" (2004)
* "Before I Wake" (2005)
* "Pale Immortal" (2006)
* "Garden of Darkness" (2007)

As Theresa Weir

* "Forever Man" (1988)
* "Amazon Lily" (1988)
* "Loving Jenny" (1989)
* "Pictures of Emily" (1990)
* "Iguana Bay" (1990)
* "Forever" (1991)
* "Last Summer" (1992)
* "One Fine Day" (1994)
* "Long Night Moon" (1995)
* "American Dreamer" (1997)
* "Some Kind of Magic" (1998)
* "Cool Shade" (1998)
* "Bad Karma" (1999)

References

External links

* [http://www.annefrasier.com/ Official Website]
* [http://www.writersnewsweekly.com/literary_spotlight_ann_fraiser.html Interview with WritersNewsWeekly]