And what's this about Quentin Tarantino being one of her biggest fans?

"I love how me having a gag blurb from him equals him being a huge fan," says author Christa Faust, who met the director at a party about a decade ago. When a photo was taken, Tarantino called her (the only brunette in a crowd of blondes) "a Veronica in a world of Betties."

"I said how about, as a joke, we put that quote from the party as a blurb, and everyone will say, 'It's so brilliant, it's so insightful,'" she laughs. "It has nothing to do with anything. It's my hair color. We thought it would be a funny joke, and now he's my biggest fan."