Christa Faust
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| Born | June 21, 1969 New York |
| Years active | 1994-present |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Nationality | American |
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| Bra/cup size | 30E (65E) |
| Boobs | Natural |
| Body type | Average |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Hair | White Short |
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Christa Faust is an American author who writes novels, novelizations, media tie-ins, and graphic novels. She mostly writes hard-boiled crime noir. Faust won the 2009 Crimespree Award (Best Original Paperback) for her 2008 novel Money Shot. Money Shot also received nominations for Best Paperback Original from the Edgar Awards, Anthony Awards, and Barry Awards.
Early Life
Faust grew up in New York City, in the Bronx and Hell’s Kitchen split between her divorced parents homes. After high school, Faust went to work in the Times Square peep booths and later as a fetish model and professional Dominatrix. Eventually, she received a B.A. in writing and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1990s and began writing media tie-ins and novelizations. She eventually sold her first story shortly after moving to Los Angeles. Her first novel Control Freak on Babbage Press in 1998. A 1999 television episode of the sci-fi horror show The Hunger adapted her novelization for the Season 2 Episode 2 titled "Skin Deep."
Popularity
Shortly after the publication of Control Freak, Faust co-authored a novel with Poppy Z. Brite called Triads in 2004. Faust's cult crime hit about Lucha Libre was also published in 2004 called Hoodtown that year. Shortly after both publications, Black Flame hired her to write novelizations and tie-ins. She wrote the novelization to the film Final Destination 3, which has a different ending than the film due to reshoots at the last minute by director David R. Ellis. She also wrote media tie-ins "A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamspawn" (2005), "The Twilight Zone: Burned / One Night at Mercy" (2005), "Friday the 13th: The Jason Strain" (2006), and "Supernatural: Coyote's Kiss" (2011). Her other best known novelization was for Snakes On A Plane in 2006.
After 2006, Faust signed with hard-boiled pulp crime imprint Hard Case Crime. In 2008, she published the highly popular and award winning novel Money Shot which drew on a retired porn star running from the law. She followed it up with a sequel Choke Hold in 2011. In 2010, she wrote the fourth novel in the pulp series Adventures of Gabriel Hunt series called The Hunt Beyond the Frozen Fire. She followed that up with her first graphic novel Butch Fatale, Dyke Dick: Double-D Double Cross in 2012. Faust also wrote 3 novelizations of popular sci-fi horror mystery series Fringe over the next two years. She would also contribute a short story to Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin's The Dead Man Series in Volume 5.
Graphic Novel Writing
Faust signed on for a graphic novel run on the new Hard Case Crime imprint for the comic book company in 2016. Peepland with Gary Phillips ran 5 comics between October 2016 and March 2017 to much success. It would eventually be published as a trade paperback combining all the episodes with extra art in late 2017. Marvel comics would enlist Faust later in 2017 to revive the character Silver Sable for the title of Silver Sable & The Wild Pack for a short run. Faust and Gary Phillips would reunite for a re-imagining of the DC Comics The Killing Joke in 2019 for a novelization. Currently, she is working with artist Mike Deodato about a soccer mom seeking revenge called Bad Mother due out sometime within the next year.
External Links
- Christa Faust at Amazon
- Christa Faust Interview on Chuck Palahniuk.Net
- Christa Faust Profile at Final Destination Wiki
- Christa Faust at ko-fi.com
- Christa Faust article on
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