
Charissa Weaks is a romantic and historical fantasy author whose fiction blends magic, myth, history, and time travel. She is best known for The Witch Collector and the Witch Walker series; her debut earned a Best of BookTok designation, and Weaks has been listed as an Amazon Top 100 author. ((https://charissaweaks.com/about-charissa?utm_source=openai))
Publicly available biographies of Charissa Weaks emphasize a self-directed literary education more than a formal academic backstory. She has said that she first entered publishing circles in 2009, then built her craft through writer groups, workshops, conferences, conventions, and repeated coursework rather than overnight visibility. That apprenticeship unfolded alongside family life in Tennessee, where she lives just south of Nashville. Before her breakout as a novelist, she was also active in professional communities such as the Historical Novel Society and her local Romance Writers of America chapter, and she helped assemble anthologies under the Once Upon banner. ((https://christinaconsolino.com/2021/11/22/an-interview-with-charissa-weaks/))
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— LJ Andrews
"Charissa Weaks' series is sumptuous and vivid fantasy romance at its best"
— BuzzFeed
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— Penn Cole
"Charissa Weaks' portrayal of a non-speaking character, Raina, is incredible"
— Readers' Favorite
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— Book Riot
"Charissa Weaks' series has brooding hotties, magical time travel, and a literal wolf god"
— Cosmopolitan
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