Averie K. Fraser
@theladyaverie.bsky.social
Eclectic witch, fashion history enthusiasts, and writer of fantasy, historical fiction, and other delights. Current WIP: Victorian vampire hunters (She/Her)
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A skilled spiritual medium, Anna has plenty of experience working with the dead; the undead are another story. So, when she learns the woman she loves has become betrothed to a powerful vampire, Anna must join a society of hunters to save her beloved and end the monster's plot. #WIP
I got a job! And unlike my old one the hours are decent and it doesn’t take and hour to get to and from work so I’ll actually be able to have a personal life and have some time to write again!
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I got a job! And unlike my old one the hours are decent and it doesn’t take and hour to get to and from work so I’ll actually be able to have a personal life and have some time to write again!
The bad news is I've been too depressed to write. The good news is that means I'm only two chapters into my current WIP which is great because I decided I should switch to first-person POV since that's what the other books in the series are in so now I don't have a lot to rewrite.
November 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The bad news is I've been too depressed to write. The good news is that means I'm only two chapters into my current WIP which is great because I decided I should switch to first-person POV since that's what the other books in the series are in so now I don't have a lot to rewrite.
I hope the people who decided I should be the one to get laid off know I’m in the middle of writing a book and they just secured themselves particularly unsavory roles in it
November 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I hope the people who decided I should be the one to get laid off know I’m in the middle of writing a book and they just secured themselves particularly unsavory roles in it
I was just laid off from my job. Just barely over a year since I lost my last job, I was finally starting to feel some sense of stability again and the rug was pulled out from under me. To make matters worse, because of some timeline shit I'm being denied for unemployment. I hate it here.
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I was just laid off from my job. Just barely over a year since I lost my last job, I was finally starting to feel some sense of stability again and the rug was pulled out from under me. To make matters worse, because of some timeline shit I'm being denied for unemployment. I hate it here.
My cousin got married today in my parents’ yard with my mom as the officiant. As a teen coming out to my mom and being met with “you’re not bi, you’re just confused” I never in a million years thought I’d see a pride flag hanging on her mailbox. I’m so happy but also have conflicting feelings.
October 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My cousin got married today in my parents’ yard with my mom as the officiant. As a teen coming out to my mom and being met with “you’re not bi, you’re just confused” I never in a million years thought I’d see a pride flag hanging on her mailbox. I’m so happy but also have conflicting feelings.
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” – Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” – Diary of Anne Frank, January 13, 1943
Art is created at the crossroads of experience and imagination; AI has neither.
October 13, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Art is created at the crossroads of experience and imagination; AI has neither.
I think, for the time being, I'm going to shelve The Moon's Ashen Glow. I've had no success with querying and I know it needs more editing, but I honestly have no desire to be in that world right now so I'll be returning my focus to my beloved vampire hunters.
October 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I think, for the time being, I'm going to shelve The Moon's Ashen Glow. I've had no success with querying and I know it needs more editing, but I honestly have no desire to be in that world right now so I'll be returning my focus to my beloved vampire hunters.
A skilled spiritual medium, Anna has plenty of experience working with the dead; the undead are another story. So, when she learns the woman she loves has become betrothed to a powerful vampire, Anna must join a society of hunters to save her beloved and end the monster's plot. #WIP
October 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A skilled spiritual medium, Anna has plenty of experience working with the dead; the undead are another story. So, when she learns the woman she loves has become betrothed to a powerful vampire, Anna must join a society of hunters to save her beloved and end the monster's plot. #WIP
Fun fact: I had never read nor watched Dracula before I started writing my first vampire hunter story a few years ago, so it wasn't until I'd finished at least the first draft and thoroughly fallen in love with my character Quincy that I realized people would think his name was a reference
October 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Fun fact: I had never read nor watched Dracula before I started writing my first vampire hunter story a few years ago, so it wasn't until I'd finished at least the first draft and thoroughly fallen in love with my character Quincy that I realized people would think his name was a reference
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October 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Young people anywhere in the country can check out ebooks and audiobooks from the Seattle Public Library.
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#BannedBooksWeek #BooksUnbanned
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“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”
How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves
AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.
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October 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”
I stayed up until 2am writing last night for the first time in over a year and I’m very tired but my soul feels full and happy
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I stayed up until 2am writing last night for the first time in over a year and I’m very tired but my soul feels full and happy
Me: Research for this book will be easy since I've already done so much research on all things Victorian for my first book.
Also me: I'm setting the first chapter of this book in a Tudor house so I have to learn as much as I can about them to describe it convincingly.
Also me: I'm setting the first chapter of this book in a Tudor house so I have to learn as much as I can about them to describe it convincingly.
October 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Me: Research for this book will be easy since I've already done so much research on all things Victorian for my first book.
Also me: I'm setting the first chapter of this book in a Tudor house so I have to learn as much as I can about them to describe it convincingly.
Also me: I'm setting the first chapter of this book in a Tudor house so I have to learn as much as I can about them to describe it convincingly.
I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the plot for my new WIP and suddenly it hit me today and I had to stop everything I was doing at work to write an outline. I’ve always been a pantser but if inspiration is going to strike so violently I’m writing that shit down.
October 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I’ve spent the last few weeks trying to figure out the plot for my new WIP and suddenly it hit me today and I had to stop everything I was doing at work to write an outline. I’ve always been a pantser but if inspiration is going to strike so violently I’m writing that shit down.
There was a shooting tonight at the mall I work at. As I was leaving work I saw the police coming in. I know I should feel something but at this point I’m just numb.
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
There was a shooting tonight at the mall I work at. As I was leaving work I saw the police coming in. I know I should feel something but at this point I’m just numb.
A very rough first paragraph for a very rough first draft but it's my first new book in over a year and I'm absolutely pumped
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
A very rough first paragraph for a very rough first draft but it's my first new book in over a year and I'm absolutely pumped
Do any other historical fiction writers use historical figures as face claims for your characters? I like having actual photographs of how characters would look if I can, which weirdly means the main characters of this new WIP just happen to look like Maude Adams and Johannes Brahms.
September 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Do any other historical fiction writers use historical figures as face claims for your characters? I like having actual photographs of how characters would look if I can, which weirdly means the main characters of this new WIP just happen to look like Maude Adams and Johannes Brahms.
Writing a new story based on my old vampire hunter story means going back and re-reading writing I haven't touched in two years. I'm scared.
September 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Writing a new story based on my old vampire hunter story means going back and re-reading writing I haven't touched in two years. I'm scared.
Emerging from my well to announce that I’ve started a new WIP about vampire hunters that functions as somewhat of a prequel to my other vampire hunter book but follows a different group of characters. I have a good feeling about this one!
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Emerging from my well to announce that I’ve started a new WIP about vampire hunters that functions as somewhat of a prequel to my other vampire hunter book but follows a different group of characters. I have a good feeling about this one!
I just got my first agent rejection since April, maybe May. It was actually super specific about what the agent didn’t like which I appreciate, but now I’m sad because I thought I was in a good place and they wanted to see a lot of changes I don’t know how to make 🥲
August 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I just got my first agent rejection since April, maybe May. It was actually super specific about what the agent didn’t like which I appreciate, but now I’m sad because I thought I was in a good place and they wanted to see a lot of changes I don’t know how to make 🥲
I got rear-ended a few weeks ago and lost most of my bumper stickers. I thought this was an appropriate replacement.
August 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I got rear-ended a few weeks ago and lost most of my bumper stickers. I thought this was an appropriate replacement.
Went to an MCR concert this weekend and Mikey Way was wearing an Oasis tour shirt. I didn’t even know Oasis toured. I didn’t even know Oasis had more than one song.
August 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Went to an MCR concert this weekend and Mikey Way was wearing an Oasis tour shirt. I didn’t even know Oasis toured. I didn’t even know Oasis had more than one song.
Still thinking about that time two years ago I commissioned the perfect artist for a portrait of my favorite character from my first book and after two progress images the artist disappeared off every social media platform never to be seen again 🥲
August 14, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Still thinking about that time two years ago I commissioned the perfect artist for a portrait of my favorite character from my first book and after two progress images the artist disappeared off every social media platform never to be seen again 🥲
To be honest, grown-ass adults using gen ai will never not be cringe to me. Teens using it is bad enough but it’s like any other fad. Most of these people seem like they’re just trying to keep up with the youth. “How do you do fellow kids? I need a robot to write all my work emails.”
August 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
To be honest, grown-ass adults using gen ai will never not be cringe to me. Teens using it is bad enough but it’s like any other fad. Most of these people seem like they’re just trying to keep up with the youth. “How do you do fellow kids? I need a robot to write all my work emails.”