"AUTO ANTENNA" + "THE FUTURE ROOM"
by Stavo Mustang Craft
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A multiple Gold Medal Award Winner, taking top 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.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
"Auto Antenna" is the Gold Medal Winner of the prestigious NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS in the category of Visionary Fiction. The NIEA competition is open to small presses, university presses, and self-published authors, and considered one of the Top 5 awards for indie publishers.
"Auto Antenna" is the Gold Medal Winner of the national AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS, in the category of Inspirational Fiction. This award is open to both indie and mainstream published works. Each category has between 2-4 Finalists in addition the Winner.
READERS' FAVORITE™ INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
BOOK AWARD WINNER in INSPIRATIONAL FICTION, and GARNERED A 5 STAR DISTINCTION REVIEW.
This rating requires 5 stars across six categories: Appearance, Plot, Development, Formatting, Marketability, and Overall Opinion.
“Auto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & A Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos” by Stavo Mustang Craft blends elements of memoir, fiction, and inspirational guidance into a captivating narrative. The story follows Cybilline, a charismatic and enigmatic figure whose experiences and reflections entertain and enlighten readers about living a life deeply intertwined with art and spirituality. The narrative structure is fluid, mirroring the exploratory and often whimsical journey of its protagonist.
Stavo Mustang Craft’s writing is lyrical and insightful, weaving complex themes of personhood, identity, and destiny with a light, engaging touch, that invites readers to look at their own lives through a new, vibrant lens. Readers who enjoy Patti Smith and Tom Robbins will not want to miss Auto Antenna.
-5 Stars, Readers' Favorite™ Award Winner
PRESS & INTERVIEWS
SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN (Excerpt in Pasatiempo Summer Guide) 1 2 3
Richard Eeds Radio Show on KTRS 103.7 SANTA FE
TAOS NEWS ("Tempo" Arts Supplement)
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL (Arts Lifestyle)
BUY LOCAL!
"Auto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos" is available for order, stream, and download internationally, as well as these fine locations in Santa Fe: Modern General, Tesuque Village Market, Cafe Fina, Wolf & Mermaid at Santa Fe Airport, Iconik Coffee Red, C-Gallery on Canyon, and Travel Bug Bookshop.
WHAT READERS SAY
"Auto Antenna never stops taking you to places you have wanted to be taken in a book."
"An ultra-hip 21st century cousin novel to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
"A manual for liberating your life from 100 casual illusions."
"The far out Artist's Way & Artist's Guide to the Galaxie."
"Auto Antenna is a permission slip to delight in the pleasures of consciousness, revel in curiosity, and embrace the vast cosmic playground we call reality."
"Ethereal eloquence."
MORE ON "THE FUTURE ROOM"
"The Future Room" is about opening the doors to your future. The house is You. The endless hallways, an invitation to your potential. The first key is realizing the direction you seek is You. The second, that you can walk through walls. And greeting you on the other side, a life that increasingly resembles your dreams.
In "The Beauty Bomb," a space princess discovers she has a strange power fueled by the eccentric undertakings and impracticaldiversions collected in her mind. In "A World of Aliens," late 20th century Williamsburg Brooklyn is transformed from a ghost town to a bustling international art hub by aliens using signals from a pirate radio station. And in "Crystal Cities Rise from the Oceans," an amnesiac finds himself, discovering he can draw things (literally) into being, and is taught by a river, mountains, and sunsets, the deeper meaning of who he is.
Four intertwined illustrated stories in the rarely explored category of ‘Fairytales for Adults’ share one cohesive message about re-valuing the magnificence of the inner world.
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