In this new podcast and video show by bestselling author Christopher Chambers, you’ll learn about the process of taking an idea to a published book. Chris will share tips, techniques and trade secrets. And, he’ll be interviewing a few of his favorite writers about the art of being a novelist. Don’t miss it!
Ep13 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on Whiskey Leavins, author of the “Santa Lacrimosa” series of novels • Our topic: Are humor and noir spiritually exclusive? Or does humor transform noir into the pulp genre?
September 2026: Don’t miss this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir! This month’s topic: Are humor and noir spiritually exclusive? Or does humor transform noir into the pulp genre? Meet our guest: Whiskey Leavins, a humorist with a crime-writing problem, who has lived a nomadic life in multiple cities and states both north and south of the Rio Grande. Now he loves life in Santa Cruz, California, and has no plans to leave. He is the author of the “Santa Lacrimosa”Click here to listen to the podcast!
24 Aug 2026
Ep12 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on Aggie Blum Thompson whose book, “You Deserve to Know,” is being turned into a TV series on Hulu
August 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, a hot novelist is the star of our Q&A with our host, bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers. This month’s topic: Domestic Noir — The art of taking a book to TV Meet our guest: Before turning to fiction, Aggie worked as a newspaper reporter, covering cops, courts, and trials, with a healthy dose of the mundane mixed in. Her writing has appeared in newspapers such as The Boston Globe andClick here to listen to the podcast!
10 Jul 2026
Ep11 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on a Master of Noir, Pulp and Hardboiled Todd Robinson — with special guest Rob Hart
July 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, prepare to be impressed by our Q&A with host and bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers, president of the Mystery Writers of America’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter. This month’s topic: The Rebirth of Hardboiled— an interview with the Midwife, Big Daddy Thug aka Todd Robinson, with special guest Rob Hart, author of “Three Hitman and a Baby” Meet our guests! About Todd Robinson: Todd Robinson is the creator and editor of the pivotalClick here to listen to the podcast!
28 Jun 2026
Ep10 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on Curtis Ippolito, Anthony Award-and Derringer Award-winning writer
June 2026: On Chris Chambers Noir, bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers shines a light on hot novelists including this month’s guest, Curtis Ippolito, an Anthony Award-and Derringer Award-winning writer. This month’s topic: Ordinary people’s moral struggle with noir/hardboiled Meet our guest: BURYING THE NEWSPAPER MAN is Curtis Ippolito’s debut novel, published in 2021. His second novel, available now, is WAVES OF BURDEN. Curtis’ short fiction has been featured in numerous notable publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dark Yonder, Tough, VautrinClick here to listen to the podcast!
19 Apr 2026
Ep9 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on Reed Farrel Coleman and Delia Pitts
May 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, two beloved novelists are the focus of our Q&A with our host, bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers. Our topic: This month, we have the honor of hosting two award-winning and bestselling exemplars of hardboiled crime fiction, Reed Farrel Coleman and Delia Pitts. Writing about what happens in the shadows is a craft, but what’s the art? Meet our guests: Reed Farrel Coleman (pictured right): Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’sClick here to listen to the podcast!
1 Apr 2026
Ep8 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on two seasoned noir authors — Joel E. Turner and Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, “New Jersey smirk and Caribbean heart. Noir or not?”
April 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, two more inspiring novelists are the focus of our Q&A with our host, bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers. This month’s topic: New Jersey smirk and Caribbean heart… Noir or not? Meet our guests! Author Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier: Originally from St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, and currently living in Apex, North Carolina. Ashley-Ruth is an emerging writer of contemporary Caribbean mysteries. The winner of the North Carolina Writers Network’s 2022 Jacobs/Jones prizeClick here to listen to the podcast!
3 Mar 2026
Ep7 Chris Chambers Noir: This month, we shine a light on Alex Kenna, “The Future of Noir”
March 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, Chris chose Alex Kenna to be our star. Bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers insissts, she’s the future of the genre. This month’s topic: How Noir shapes Crime Fiction, and what are the future trends? Meet our guest: Alex Kenna is a mystery writer, prosecutor, and amateur painter. Her first novel, What Meets the Eye, was a 2023 Shamus Award Finalist for best first P.I. novel. Kirkus Reviews called it aClick here to listen to the podcast!
1 Feb 2026
Ep6 Chris Chambers Noir: This month we shine a light on two new hot novelists — P.M. Raymond and NYC firefighter Jason Powell
February 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, two new hot novelists are the focus of our Q&A with our host, bestselling mystery writer Christopher Chambers. This month’s topic: Riffs on a Noir Theme: Horror & Psychological Suspense to Thrillers Meet our guests: P.M. Raymond: An award-winning author from New Orleans, Louisiana, P.M. Raymond knows a thing or two about good gumbo, grits, and café au lait. She is a 2025 Killer Shorts and Horror2Comic Semifinalist, the SistersClick here to listen to the podcast!
5 Jan 2026
Ep5 Chris Chambers Noir: Start 2026 off right with our panel of 4 authors who are celebrating “Southern Noir? Hick Hardboiled? Or the next evolutionary step of one of crime fiction’s original forms.” You are in for a treat!
January 2026: On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, a panel of four writers will test what you consider to be Sounthern Noir. “What is the next evolutionary step of one of crime fiction’s original forms?” asks our host, Christopher Chambers, the award-winning author of dozens of books, short stories, and, most recently, the bestselling Dickie Cornish series. Don’t miss it! Authors, pictured: Scott Von Doviak (top left), Bobby Matthews (top right), Wes Browne (bottom left), James D.F. HannahClick here to listen to the podcast!
11 Dec 2025
Ep4 Chris Chambers Noir: “Psychological thrillers and cop suspense aren’t noir? Oh hell no. These two ladies, award winners, bestsellers and queens of crime, will show you. Meet Tracy Clark and Christina Kovac”
December 2025: “On this month’s episode of Chris Chambers Noir, these two psychological thriller writers will make you understand the meaning of noir,” says our host Christopher Chambers, the award-winning author of dozens of books, short stories, and most recently the bestselling Dickie Cornish series. Meet our guests: Tracy Clark and Christina Kovac Tracy Clark says: I was born in Chicago, the greatest city ever. It must be so, because I’m still here, loving the seasons, cursing the heat, shiveringClick here to listen to the podcast!
17 Nov 2025
Ep3: Chris Chambers Noir — Meet award-winning author, film noir enthusiast, fetish model and professional Dominatrix — the incredible 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. AfterClick here to listen to the podcast!
18 Oct 2025
Ep2: Chris Chambers Noir — Join us for this amazing episode as Chris interviews Gary Philips, “Made in Hardboiled LA”
Are you ready for a little Street Whys grit to get you going today? You are going to love Chris’s interview with Gary Phillips, a community activist and labor organizer who delivered dog cages. He’s published various novels, comics, short stories, and edited several anthologies, including Orange County Noir and the award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. Violent Spring, first published in 1994, was named in 2020 as one of the essential crime novels of Los Angeles.Click here to listen to the podcast!
18 Jul 2025
Ep1: Chris Chambers Noir — Get ready for a little noir magic! Don’t miss our Q&A with the mastermind behind Washington, DC’s most notorious fictional detective — former street denizen Dickie Cornish, who faces off with bloodthirsty cops and the justice department
Are you ready for a little Street Whys grit to get you going today? In Ep1 of bestselling noir author Chris Chambers’ new show, Chris Chambers Noir, you’ll learn what motivated this Washington, D.C. native to write more than 16 books, and counting! In today’s interview with Hope Katz Gibbs, producer of InkandescentRadio.com, she asks Chris: Tell us about your day job and the work you are doing as the chair of the International Conflict Resolution Center, and General CounselClick here to listen to the podcast!
15 Apr 2025
Ep8: Today at Elaine’s Literary Salon you’ll discover the gritty work of Christopher Chambers, author of “Street Whys” — the third novel in his Detective Dickie Cornish series
May 2025: In “Street Whys,” the newest novel by award-winning noir author Christopher Chambers, 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 himselfClick here to listen to the podcast!
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