November 24, 2025: You are going to love ep3 of bestselling noir author Chris Chambers’s show where he interviews film noir enthusiast, fetish model, and professional Dominatrix — the incredible Christa Faust, author of award-winning books including “Snakes on a Plane”
Monday Morning Magic from Inkandescent® PR + Publishing Co. — You know the adage: You never know who you are going to meet. Today, we bring you an interview with a woman you may know, but perhaps not by name: Christa Faust.
You definitely know her work: Money Shot, which won the Crimespree Award, Best Paperback Original, and was nominated for an Edgar Award, Best PBO, Barry Award, Best PBO, Anthony Award, Best PBO. And the novelization of the crazy, scary film, Snakes On A Plane, which won the IAMTW Scribe Award for General Fiction and Best Novel. The list goes on: christafaust.com.
We came to meet this self-proclaimed “unapologetic pervert and a complicated queer, film Noir enthusiast and menopausal troublemaker,” on Ep3 of Christopher Chambers’ podcast/video show, Chris Chambers Noir.
Have you read “Snakes on a Plane?” Check it out: ChristaFaust.com
About Christa: A native of New York City, Crista grew up in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen. She shares, “I have been making stuff up my whole life, and spent most of my 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. Christa writes primarily crime fiction, as well as graphic novels and work-for-hire media tie-in novels. 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!”
Don’t miss this interview with Christa on the podcast/video show: ChrisChamberNoir.
Until next Monday: The Inkandescent team wishes you a very Happy Thanksgiving, and hopes that, like Christa, you spend the holiday season embracing who you are! — Hope Katz Gibbs, founder and president, Inkandescent® Inc. Inkandescent.us
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About Christ Chambers Noir: 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.