Out of the Darkness and into The Light comes this color mini e-sampler of 'BRAND NEW EARTH NUDE: Envisioning the Birth of a Naked New World' to whet the appetite for those who love their e-readers. Following...

Why is being a person so hard? Especially a happy person?Why do things like self-esteem go right out the window even when you're truly, madly, potently in love?! Alternating between the Past and the Present,...

In this time of coming changes, long foretold...it is time, once again, to act. As a mixed race, modern-day, New Mexico pueblo 21-year-old, Lisel Martinez has been glad to be safely home, co-creating...

How do you know when it is right to stick together with someone, working situations out in good times & bad -versus- when it is time to let go? Why do some relationships in the trajectory of life...

Music. We love it. Have favorite songs. Sing & dance along. Some of us even create & perform it ourselves.  But does it "soothe the savage beast" (as an often misquoted 1697 play once claimed)?Or...

This is the 2nd edition of author/ex-New York editor/filmmaker/tropical artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat's expansive memoir Creative Living: From Starving Artist To Self-Employed Bliss. For years,...

Hurricanes, volcano eruptions, economic collapse, oh my! Stuck in a dark-night-of-the-soul crisis 3000 tropical miles from all she knows, one author/editor did learn how to survive...and eventually, once...

With expanding possibilities for self- plus independent-publishing blossoming in recent years, a new breed of publishing experts have appeared, ready to feed on the ever-growing market of literary hopefuls....

Whether our realities are filled with people or not, are we ever truly alone?Dive into Life's adventures with author, editor, filmmaker, tropical artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat. An exploration...

Life's hard knocks – along with a human Reality that's seemingly going to hell in a handbasket – might send any sane person running for cover, thereby significantly derailing their dreams...though it's...

Whether straight, gay, bi, trans, intersex and intimately active or entirely celibate: sexual energy = kundalini energy; humanity's vital Life Force. Not a power to be wielded lightly, for all actions...

Emergency Bulletin: Amelia's mother and new partner devise the disappearance of the plucky 11-year-old from an ex-husband with custody in order to begin a new life together — under assumed identities...

What to do when Life throws a curve? If you can't change the past, can you at least fix the present and the future?  It's becoming apparent to most folks that certain societal systems in America have...

What exactly is "intentional community?" And how does one go about co-creating it? Are there typical hurdles to overcome? In the Green/Sustainable Living Movement, the term "community" often means folks...

Can peace be made with one's ancestors, even after they are dead? Once upon a time my mother's fondest desire was to have a book published. Not just any book, mind you, but a beautiful volume full of...

Leaving the New Mexico pueblo where she was born for the streets of San Francisco, Lisel Martinez searches for a life different than the one that seems destined to be her fate. Isn't it time the human...

What happens when you want to depart an already-established life to begin an entirely new one, leaving behind an enviable job and steady paycheck for the thrilling vagaries of becoming a self-employed...

Best known for the Gathering The Dreamcatchers fiction series along with standalone nonfiction titles such as The World Is Beautiful and Creative Living: From Starving Artist to Self-Employed Bliss, author...

What is life like on the volcanic Big Island of Hawaii? Now featuring 2022 UPDATE, today author/ex-New York editor/artist sanctuary founder Cristina Salat would say: GREAT! But the journey of getting...