I just found out that I won a motherfucking Scribe award for Snakes on a Motherfucking Plane.

Do you look like this?

Know someone who does?



The hunt is on. I’m looking for a model/actress to play Angel Dare in

the book trailer I will be shooting for MONEY SHOT. If you’re LA local

and interested in being a star (for thirty seconds), check out my craiglist ad for more details.



http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/adg/382380968.html



(Daniel, if you're reading this, I have not been able to post… Continue

Yesterday’s panel “How to Write a Mystery” went well. There was a surprisingly large crowd. (I like to

think it was my fabulousness and not just people trying to escape the

heat and spend a few hours in an air-conditioned room with free coffee

and cookies.) I managed to pull off a very convincing impersonation of

someone who knows what she’s talking about. All and all it was a lot of

fun.



I also got in a nice Crimespace plug when asked to recommend… Continue

I'll be participating in this group event sponsored by Sisters In Crime, along with Eric Stone, Gay Toltl Kinman, and Bruce Cook:

How To Write a Mystery
July 14
2-4 P.M.
Burbank Library, Buena Vista Branch
300 N. Buena Vista
Burbank, CA 91505

I’ve been reading lots of British authors lately and it’s got me wondering about the whole Americanization debate. The claim that the average American reader can’t handle unfamiliar British spellings and books by Brits ought to be “Americanized” in order to sell to the McDonalds and Starbucks set.



Well, if the average American reader can’t cope with words like “tyre” or “kerb,” they’d probably be utterly mystified by Ray Banks’ Cal Innes novels. Which is a shame, because they’re… Continue

For some reason, Crimespace is still not letting me post direct links in my blog entries, but if you go to my website

www.christafaust.com

and click on "fiction," you can get a sneak peek at the first two chapters of my forthcoming Hard Case Crime novel MONEY SHOT.