He was born and raised in a fundamentalist church of Christ denomination that is rampant with homophobia, transphobia, child abuse, and sexism, and his works of fiction often blend a mixture of queer representation and dark themes such as corruption and discrimination.

He’s a firm believer in friendship and found family, so those themes are often a big part of his writing. Most of his works touch on modern feminist issues in some way.

He loves horror movies and has watched more than he’ll ever know with his wife, spanning both decades and subgenres. He read Nancy Drew as a kid and thought she was pretty neat-o and watched a lot of Matlock, Perry Mason, and old Sherlock Holmes and Universal Monster movies. These helped shape him into the kind of writer he is today.

He also leaned into a lot of queer culture growing up, especially through music, though he didn’t know it at the time because of his conservative religious upbringing. He now knows that he’s genderqueer and bisexual and laughs at all of the queer culture he was embracing unwittingly when he was young. Disco and Melissa Ethridge, anyone?

The plot twist…

Despite all the dark fiction and dark themes, in person Weaver is a pretty laid back, goofy person who loves a good horror flick, music, books, dancing, video games, and acting – he’s a trained method actor of the Lee Strasberg variety.

Weaver believes that, “Life is so much better when we aim to be good, warm, loving people filled with laughter. I’ve often said that I write about things I’d hate but there’s good things in there too. Like hope. Justice. Friendship. Love. In short, be good to each other.”