Ep3: Chris Chambers Noir — Meet prolific author and Dominatrix Christa Faust
About Christa Faust: A native of New York City, Crista grew up in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen. She’s been making stuff up her whole life, and spent most of her teen years on endless subway rides, cutting school and scribbling stories. When she turned 18, she worked in the Times Square peep booths and later as a fetish model and professional Dominatrix. She sold her first short story when she moved to Los Angeles in the early 90s. After nearly 30 years in her beloved adopted city, she is currently living out her third act in the Pacific Northwest. She’s an unapologetic pervert and a complicated queer. A Film Noir enthusiast and menopausal troublemaker. She writes primarily crime fiction, but also graphic novels and work-for-hire media tie in novels. She doesn’t plan to stop any time soon. She also curated this very important, deeply researched and intellectually significant list of every single time Mads Mikkelsen has appeared in bondage. You know, for science!
We can’t wait to interview Christa on ChrisChamberNoir show. Stay tuned for the podcast and video! Learn all about Christa here: christafaust.com
AWARDS:
Money Shot
Won: Crimespree Award, Best Paperback Original
Nominated: Edgar Award, Best PBO, Barry Award, Best PBO, Anthony Award, Best PBO.
Snakes On A Plane
Won: IAMTW Scribe Award, General Fiction, Best Novel – Adapted
FILM NOVELIZATIONS & TIE-IN NOVELS:
The Killing Joke (Batman), with Gary Phillips, Titan Books, September 2018
Fringe: Sins of the Fathers, Titan Books, August 2014
Fringe: The Burning Man Titan Books, August 2013
Fringe: The Zodiac Paradox, Titan Books, May 2013
The Dead Man: The Death Match, 47 North , September 2012
Supernatural: Coyote’s Kiss Titan Books, 2011
Snakes on a Plane Games Workshop, July 2006
Final Destination III: The Movie Games Workshop, January 2006
Friday The 13th: The Jason Strain Games Workshop, January 2006
A Nightmare On Elm Street #2: Dreamspawn Games Workshop, April 2005
Twilight Zone #5: Burned / One Night at Mercy Games Workshop, July 2005
Christa’s BOOKS:
The Get Off, Hard Case Crime, March 2025
Gabriel Hunt – Hunt Beyond the Frozen Fire, June, 2014
Butch Fatale, Dyke Dick: Double D Double Cross, February 2012
Choke Hold Hard Case Crime, October 2011
Money Shot Hard Case Crime, February 2008.
Triads, with Poppy Z Brite, Subterranean Press, August 2004; (Triads signed, ltd. editionincludes original short story ‘Blood Orange Blues’ Subterranean Press August, 2004)
Hoodtown From Parts Unknown, May 2004
Control Freak RhinocEros, June 1998, reissued Babbage Press September 2002
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Hit Me, with Priscilla Petraites (Illustrator), AWA Upshot, September 2022
Redemption with Mike Deodato Jr (Illustrator), AWA Upshot, October 2021
Bad Mother with Mike Deodato Jr (Illustrator), AWA Upshot, March 2021
Peepland, with Gary Phillips, and Andrea Camerini (Illustrator), Titan Comics, August 2017
Silver Sable and The Wild Pack (2017) #36, with Paulo Siqueira (Illustrator), Mahmud Asrar (Illustrator), Marvel, November 2017
About Christopher Chambers: A Washington, D.C. native, Chris is a lecturer at Georgetown University, Chair of the International Conflict Resolution Center and is General Counsel to a not-for-profit benefitting HBCUs: Student Housing of America. He is the author of the Angela Bivens thriller series for Random House, The Rocket Crockett pulp noir series, and Black Pulp for Prose-Press, and editor, along with Gary Phillips, of The Darker Mask graphic short story collection, the Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again: Honoring Harlem’s Herb Jeffries. He was a finalist in 2008 for the PEN/Malamud Short Story Award for “Leviathan.”
He’s contributed short stories to The Obama Inheritance: 15 Stories of Conspiracy Noir (Three Rooms Press) and is the winner of the Anthony Award. The Black Panther: Tales Of Wakanda, The Faking of the President, and Midnight Hour, Witnesses for the Dead with Gar Anthony Haywood–all major award-winning collections and bestsellers. His noir hardboiled mystery Scavenger (2020) won a starred review and profile in Publishers Weekly; the sequel Standalone sees the return of the indestructible homeless addict turned PI Dickie Cornish, patrolling the unforgiving city streets ravaged by COVID, with the third in the trilogy Streetwhys in 2025. His next Marvel contribution is in Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson.
About Chris’s latest book, “Street Whys:” We again meet Washington, DC’s notorious detective, former street denizen Dickie Cornish, who faces off with bloodthirsty cops and the justice department. Underground detective Dickie Cornish faces a vindictive murder rap from his past if he doesn’t agree to help prove that the fentanyl ravaging the streets of DC is bankrolled by shadowy donors of a certain former president. Broke and desperate, Cornish soon finds himself on a collision course with shady public defenders and corrupt police officers, forcing him to use his street connections to flip their plan. Or die.
The Dickie Cornish series has met with widespread critical acclaim: Publishers Weekly dubbed the series debut, Scavenger, “[A] no-holds-barred crime novel…a 21st-century twist on traditional hardboiled noir.” The Strand Magazine selected Standalone, the second book in the series, as one of the “Top 25 Mystery Novels of the Year,” adding, “It’s apparent that the modern heir to Chandler, Woolrich, and Cain is Christopher Chambers, enough said.” And renowned crime author George Pelecanos raves that the series “really nails Washington, DC in the current environment.” Click here to buy the book.
Click here to listen to Chris’s podcast interview with bestselling thriller novelist Jeffrey James Higgins at Elaine’s Literary Salon. Jeff says: “Streetwhys is more noir than any noir has any right to be. It’s the reason why book lovers call Chris’ stories dizzying. Raw. His words pop off the page like hot rounds from a Saturday Night Special. Buckle up, buttercup.”
