Christa Faust

54, Female

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Born in The Big Apple, live in The City of Angels.
About Me:
Writer. Fetishist. Pulp Enthusiast.
I Am A:
Reader, Writer
Website:
http://www.christafaust.com
Books And Authors I Like:
Shell Scott changed my life.
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Movies; Film Noir
TV; Forget it. I've got too many books to read.

Comment Wall:

  • Daniel Hatadi

    Glad to have you on board, Christa. Tribe said you were having trouble joining up. Looks like it's sorted.

    Mar 12, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    Look's that way. Glad to be here.

    Mar 12, 2007

  • Laura Benedict

    Hi, Christa. Love the profile pic almost as much as the one on your myspace page!

    Mar 12, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    That's a small piece of the Glen Orbik cover art for my forthcoming novel.

    Mar 12, 2007

  • Tribe

    I didn't know you were a Nu Yawker at heart...

    Mar 13, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    I grew up in a divorced parents split between da Bronx and Hell's Kitchen. Mom's still in the same apartment on 45th street and 9th Ave, only now it's more like Hell's Bistro.

    Mar 13, 2007

  • Tribe

    You really mean "el Bronx," right?

    Mar 13, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    Not in my dad's predominantly Irish hood. Out here in Los Angeles my neighborhood is muy mas Mexicano, but this Lucha Libre loving Mole junkie wouldn't have it any other way.

    Mar 13, 2007

  • Tiffany Leigh

    Thanks for the add -- looking very much forward to your Hard Case offering and future work in general!

    Mar 14, 2007

  • Victor Gischler

    It's your turn for some chatter.

    Chatter. Chatter.

    There, now doesn't that make your day?

    Mar 15, 2007

  • Megan Abbott

    Hey, Christa!
    How's tricks?

    Mar 15, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    Tricky, as usual. How about you?

    Mar 15, 2007

  • Sean Doolittle

    Hey there, Christa Faust. Here's some more chatter. Are you hitting the LA Times Festival of Books this year?

    Mar 15, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    I'll be there, not square.

    Mar 15, 2007

  • Tribe

    Christa is a sucker for Sterling Hayden.

    Mar 17, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    You bet. Now there's a real man! You won't see a face like his in modern Hollywood.

    Mar 17, 2007

  • Naomi Hirahara

    Hey, Christa--
    Sorry to have missed the Coffee Table meeting. My slight cold exploded into the full on flu, which I'm still recovering from. Anyway, I'm excited to be working with you on the SINC setting writing workshop. We'll talk soon.

    Mar 18, 2007

  • Stephen Blackmoore

    Hope to catch you out at the Festival of Books

    Mar 18, 2007

  • Jason Starr

    You and Megan A. recognized it was Hayden right away. Go no.
    JMKS

    Mar 19, 2007

  • Brian Thornton

    Ever read Hayden's book "1898"? He was a world-class sailor, too. Pity some people only remember him for his role Altman's version of "The Long Goodbye."

    Mar 19, 2007

  • Shannon Clute

    Your website is the tastiest thing thing I've ever feasted my eyes on.

    Thanking my lucky stars crimespace has given me a place to drink with ladies like you...

    Apr 1, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    There are no ladies like me, but I'll drink to that anyway.

    Apr 1, 2007

  • Brian Thornton

    Christa- thanks for your input on the thread on cross-gender POV characters. Also, congratulations on getting picked up for A HELL OF A WOMAN! I've got something in there too (very very short, talks about Ross MacDonald's take on female characters). It's an honor to be included.

    Apr 7, 2007

  • Donna Moore

    Hi Christa - thanks for the invite. Shell Scott and film noir? Excellent! I wish I could get my hands on more Shell Scott books. And I'm really looking forward to MONEY SHOT.

    Apr 11, 2007

  • JackBludis

    Good stuff on your website.

    May 11, 2007

  • Kent Gowran

    Hey Christa - Really enjoyed HOODTOWN and am sure looking forward to MONEY SHOT. Big congrats on that score!

    And thanks for accepting the invite, too.

    Jun 6, 2007

  • PulpStar

    Hey there, Christa. Thanks for the friendly add. Hope your 4th was a real blast. Here's pulp in your eye!

    Jul 5, 2007

  • Amanda Stevens

    Love your website, Christa. So cool!

    Jul 9, 2007

  • Naomi Hirahara

    Reading IN A LONELY PLACE right now and I'm totally hooked. I have to get my hands on the rest of Feminist Press' Femmes Fatales series. Have you read the others in the series? Any recommendations? They've reprinted another Hughes book, I see.

    Jul 12, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    I haven't read BEDELIA, but I absolutely love IN A LONELY PLACE. I also enjoyed LAURA (though it's a bit more girly than my usual fare) and THE G STRING MURDERS. I'm very curious about WOMEN'S BARRACKS.

    Jul 13, 2007

  • Eric Stone

    Thanks for the referral to this place. I've been trying to figure out how to get the most out of it - without it taking up all my time (that's the hard part). It seems like it's going to be really useful and fun and I'll no doubt meet some entertaining people because of it.

    Jul 26, 2007

  • Gayle Bartos-Pool

    Christa, You were great on the How To Write a Mystery panel. Your perspective is so vibrant and I doubt if there has ever been a word you have minced. Good luck on your latest book.

    Jul 30, 2007

  • David L. Hoof

    Into everyone's day a little weirdness should spill, as long as its not too weird or too sticky to clean up. Here's yours. From your blogs you seem a lot like some of my female characters, at least some that I like the best. Some have called these characters unrealistic. But since you are real, they cannot be unrealistic, simply previously unrealized. Or am I being unrealistic to expect a realistic real character to vindicate my allegedly unrealistic characters? You have sixty seconds in which to answer in twenty-five words or fewer.

    Aug 3, 2007

  • Christa Faust

    I assure you that I am real, though often unrealistic. Your characters will have to speak for themselves.

    Aug 3, 2007

  • JackBludis

    Congrats on coming out with "Hard Case Crime." Good, good, publisher. Great books. Old and new.

    Jan 28, 2008

  • Alison Bruce

    Hi Christa, I like your website. You might like the video on my page, it's got a touch of rockin' modern b-movie about it. If you like it and ever need a video scripted please think of me! See ya, Alison x

    Jan 29, 2008

  • L.J. Sellers

    Hi Christa
    I keep hearing great things about MONEY SHOT. Congratulations! (It's in my TBR list.)

    Apr 2, 2008

  • Tom Cooke

    I just read an excerpt from MONEY SHOT. Wow, what a set up. "Then he hit me in the face."

    That was VERY good. Now, of course, I have to read the rest of it. Oh well, that's what TBR lists are for I guess.

    Nice work.

    May 5, 2008

  • Simon Avery

    Hi Christa, I'm currently half way through Money Shot and I'm loving it. Hard Case are wonderful - there needs to be more publishers putting books out that look and read so beautifully.
    Best, Simon

    May 12, 2008

  • Ange

    Honey, I've met some hardboiled before, but you -- you're twenty minutes! Wish I could remember which film that was from, but after reading Money Shot, I knew you would appreciate it. Thanks for inspiring the rest of us.

    Jun 3, 2008

  • Dana King

    MONEY SHOT was recommended to me by several people here as a good example of noir written by a woman. (It was part of a discussion, people looking for noir fiction by women.) It sat in the TBR pile for about three months; I finally got around to it last week. Outstanding read. You made Angel tough enough to be a noir heroine, but didn;t just turn her into a man with internal plumbing. She needs the physical strength and street smarts of Lalo at times, and learns to take care of herself as well. The writing is tight, the dialog is spot on, and the plot is believable without being predictable. The word of mouth was right.

    Jun 4, 2008

  • Beth Groundwater

    Thanks for befriending me, you pulp queen you. ;) My books are more on the other end of the spectrum--cozy mysteries.

    Aug 7, 2008

  • Geoff Eighinger

    You love pro wrestling, don't you? I'm a recovering pro wrestling fan.

    Nov 18, 2008

  • Geoff Eighinger

    Thanks.

    I subscribed to Wrestling Observer Newsletter for about six years before I took my "break" and always found the Lucha Libre recaps interesting. I wish I had a source for watching this. Got any ideas? I'm in Ohio so we don't have any stations that televise AAA or CMLL or anything.

    Nov 19, 2008

  • Dana King

    Congratulations on your Edgar nomination. I read MONEY SHOT, and it has earned all the recognition it has received. Good luck.

    Jan 17, 2009