Quentin Tarantino is to have his first novel published next year. Entitled Kill Bill, the novel will come out in spring of 2003, a few months before the movie of the same name. Tarantino has also written the screenplay and begins shooting for Miramax in June.

Both novel and film tell the story of a woman who falls into a coma after being shot at her wedding and, when she wakes up five years later, goes all out for revenge on her attackers. Tarantino told Variety "Kill Bill is a cinematic novel. It's not a novelisation."

The film will star Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu and David Carradine. The book, according to the editor-in-chief of Talk Miramax Books, Jonathan Burnham, "is going to be an extraordinary fictional debut".