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 such a project was, in some years our heroine was just too busy starving. 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 trees on an island where she now lived, the heroine of this personal narrative took a soulfully long look back at the unique experiences & heartfelt work she'd managed to create over many years and -- despite all Life's unexpected twists & turns -- she found it to be very very good.