Auto Antenna

A 3-time award winner, taking the Gold Medal prize in both the 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards for Visionary Fiction and the 2025 American Fiction Awards in the category of Inspirational Fiction, "Auto Antenna" is a pulp fiction memoir about art, personhood, and an Insider's Guide to Santa Fe. This hip metaphysical novella, which was also a Readers' Favorite™ 2025 International Book Award Winner for Inspirational Fiction, takes readers on a liberating journey with an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade. She's a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe, who it turns out may not be from this world at all. From behind the wheel of a turquoise 1959 Ford Galaxie, she explores the unique mixture of 'art, magic, and spirituality as a lifestyle' that has allowed a small town in the desert to become the third largest art market in the country. The atmospheric highs of the City Different delivers fertile terrain for anyone interested in artistic revelry, spiritual seeking, and the process of becoming a person.

A therapist for artists, Cybilline provides keen psychological insight and hilarity into issues of self-construction and perceived success, while identifying the uses of imagination; not just for the purpose of artmaking, but how those same elements play a role in determining personal identity, and even destiny. 

With poetic observations and charming fantasia, "Auto Antenna" offers a toolkit for creating a life of sustaining pleasures, purpose, and invention. And at all times remaining a love letter to Santa Fe.

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BOOK REVIEW BLURBS

"A Book about Art that is itself a Work of Art. A Richter scale experience."

- Melissa Polly, "Madroid"

"Transportive with observations deep and complex. There's philosophy, psychology, and sociology, all in the context of writing so richly detailed and imagined that it feels more like an immersive experience than reading a book."

-Suzanne Greenawalt, Yale University Art Gallery

"Auto Antenna reads like its own genre, brilliantly weaving travelogue, sci-fi, memoir, and manifesto. Unique and Magical."

- Ali Rubinstein, SVP - Disney Imagineering