No dishes or hotel furniture were broken during the reporting of this story.

That's important to note as the interview subject is none other than Karrine Steffans, the New York Times best-selling author of the sexual and star-filled "Confessions of A Video Vixen," and her new memoir about its aftermath, "The Vixen Diaries."

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Not to mention, she concedes now, she was once a dish-breaking, straight vodka-swilling something when she and an unnamed boyfriend lived in the Ritz-Carlton Buckhead for about six months.

But back at the same Ritz some seven years later, promoting her new book and preparing to appear at Saturday's BET Hip-Hop Awards at the Atlanta Civic Center, Steffans and her room are in order, and she's ready for our five questions:

Q: You can cause quite a stir. There's "Confessions," the dish-breaking, and at your signing here you had the APD and other security at your table. Have their been threats? Close calls?

A: There's always close calls. There are two different kinds of close calls: There are close calls from people who do not like what you're doing. And then there's close calls from people who like what you're doing — and they're just overzealous. ... I try not to have people come near me. Seriously. I'm a bit of a literary rock star. Just a little bit.

Q: What's the next book about? Another memoir?

A: We're done with memoirs for now because I think I've pretty much nailed it. What I'm working on now I'm calling "The Vixen Manual." It's a relationship guide for a new sort of woman. What I want to do is take a little bit of masculinity and lend it to relationship advice; because I think women tend to screw up their relationships, based on ... the crying and the emotions.

Q: Do you have a top five favorite videos, starring you?

A: Oh God, I don't even know if I remember. ... I did videos for a year about eight years ago. I'm not a video person. I don't know why people draw that conclusion sometimes.

Q: Well, there's the title of your first book ...

A: Yeah, I guess that's it. I mean, I'll tell you what — I can tell you who some of my favorites are now. [Rapper Lil] Wayne, of course, is my all-time favorite. I did appreciate [rapper] Rich Boy's album this year. ... I know I like [Kanye West's] "Stronger" video. because it's very '80s. I think he gives new life to throwbacks.

Q: What is it about Lil Wayne?

A: I'm like his muse and he's like mine. When we get together we are even more creative than when we're apart. Like, if he's in the studio and I walk in he gets more excited, like 'Oh my inspiration is here!' ... I told him we're so much like John [Lennon] and Yoko [Ono] sometimes. We're like John and Yoko, creatively. We are.