Auto Antenna

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>★ 2026 CIBA <em>Five-Round Finalist</em> - International Mind & Spirit Book Award <em>for Spirituality and Enlightenment</em>★</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A multiple Grand-Prize Gold Medal Award Winner taking top spot</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> in both the 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards for Visionary Fiction and the 2025 American Fiction Awards in the category of Inspirational Fiction </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Auto Antenna</em> is a pulp fiction memoir about art personhood and an Insider's Guide to Santa Fe.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> This hip metaphysical novella takes readers on a liberating journey with an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade</span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe who it turns out may not be from this world at all. </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>From behind the wheel of a turquoise 1959 Ford Galaxie she explores the unique mixture of </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>art magic and spirituality as a lifestyle</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> that has allowed a small town in the desert to become the third largest art market in the country. The atmospheric highs</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> of the City Different deliver fertile </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>terrain for anyone interested in artistic revelry spiritual seeking and the process of becoming a person.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cybilline is a therapist for local artists providing keen psychological insight and hilarity into issues of self-construction and perceived success. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She expertly identifies </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the uses of imagination-not just for the purpose of artmaking but how those same elements play a role in determining personal identity</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and even destiny.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With poetic observations and charming fantasia </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Auto Antenna</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a </span><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Readers' Favorite™ 2025 International Book Award Winner that </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>offers a toolkit for creating a life of sustaining pleasures purpose and invention-all while remaining a timeless love letter to Santa Fe.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</strong></p><p></p><p><strong><em>A Book about Art that is itself a Work of Art. A Richter scale experience.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>- Melissa Polly Madroid</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><u>HIGHLIGHTED EXTRACTS</u></strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's about the way we stitch ourselves together with a little of this energy a little of that experience or this subtle influence or that various half-belief. And always in our personalities with visible loose threads dangling about as we are always unfinished and in motion.</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Is the painting itself the staggering accomplishment or all the moments spent painting it? Isn't it in the end about creating a beautiful life?</em></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I decided not fitting in was probably my thing not a problem but an answer.</em></p>