Christine Culler is the author of the novels “101 Ways Your Mother Said You Could Die,” “The Heirloom Girls,” and the satirical romance “Giving Good Hollywood,” featured on Kirkus Reviews’ “Best Indies of 2011.” She’s had a career in the film industry as a studio story analyst working on such features as “Minority Report” and “The Shape of Water,” and currently lives on a small farm in Kona, Hawaii with her husband and thirteen cats.