SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Several years ago I paid the $20.00 a month fee to list The Orchard on the Publishers Weekly site in hopes that it would attract an agent or editor. I even made a video 




along with a synopsis, but I heard absolutely nothing even though the Anne Frasier name was fairly established at that point. And yet this method still seems a good idea to me. Instead of authors flooding agents with thousands of query letters... Why not turn it around? Let agents and editors come to the writer if the writer has a project of interest. It doesn't normally work that way, but more and more we are seeing editors and agents contacting authors about book offers and representation.  When one of my titles takes a leap on Amazon, I'm contacted by editors and agents.  So they are watching. And it only makes sense to let editors know that I'm accepting offers.  It seems uncouth, but I just posted the following on my website:

Dear editors and publishers:It's a new publishing world, and I'm currently working without an agent. If you have any interest in any of my titles, past, present, future, please contact me directly through the contact link on this page. The only books contractually bound are The Orchard and Bad Karma, and Bad Karma will revert back to me in April of 2013.  My current project is a Frasier Play Dead sequel, which will be completed September 1, 2013. I'm in talks with a publisher about this proposal.Anne Frasier/Theresa WeirTitle ListWriting as Anne FrasierHush, 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)Max Under the Stars, short story (2010)Deadly Treats Halloween anthology, editor and contributor, The Replacement (September 2011)The Pale Boy (short story 2011)Once Upon a Crime anthology, Red Cadillac (April 2012)Woman in a Black Veil (July 2012)Dark: Volume 1 (short-story collection, July 2012)Dark: Volume 2 (short-story collection July 2012)Girls from the North Country (short story, July 2012)Black Tupelo (short-story collection, July 2012)Made of Stars (short story and continuation of The Pale Boy, August 2012)Stars (Collection: Max Under the Stars, Made of Stars, August 2012) Writing as Theresa WeirThe 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, Reviewer’s 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)The Man Who Left , a memoir (April 2012)The Girl with the Cat Tattoo (June 2012)