Creative Living

For years author/ex-New York editor/filmmaker/tropical artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat had been planning to write a definitive tome about living (some might say surviving) the creative life. It was envisioned as part in-the-trenches memoir, and part ins-&-outs of how the business sides of media industries like the worlds of NYC book & magazine publishing along with Hollywood movie-making could be navigated, as she'd been experiencing them. The problem with undertaking a project of such scope was, in some years our heroine was just too busy with the starving-artist part of the equation. And then, in other years when she was somewhat successful, she was just too busy, period. (And not always all that blissful either ) So decades went by...until all of a sudden one day, from beneath waving palm fronds on an island where she now lived, the author of this personal narrative took a soulfully long look back at all the unique experiences & heartfelt work she'd managed to create over many years and -- despite Life's unexpected twists & turns -- she found it to be very very good. As in: she'd arrived at the blissful-self-employment part of this story, at last.