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Stavo Mustang Craft is all about organization.

The Santa Fe-based artist and writer put everything in place for six months so he could write 鈥淎uto Antenna: An Enchanted Guide to Santa Fe & Vague Blueprint to the Cosmos.鈥�

鈥淚 worked on it for two years,鈥� Craft says. 鈥淚t took one year to write it. Organization for six months and another six months to edit.鈥�

Craft will have a book event at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at Iconik Red, 1366 Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe.

Craft says the book received a publishing offer within 15 days of the very first proposal sent, hooking a press with a 50-year track record in Santa Fe.

This prompted an independent grassroots publishing campaign not born of a lack of prospects, but an act of entrepreneurial prerogative.

鈥淎uto Antenna鈥� is a pulp fiction memoir about art, personhood and an insider鈥檚 guide to Santa Fe, all as an enchanting backdrop for an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade; a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe, who it turns out may not be from this world at all.

She drives a turquoise 1959 Ford Galaxie, exploring the unique mixture of 鈥渁rt, magic, and spirituality as a lifestyle鈥� 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 exploring 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 art making, but how those same elements play a role in determining personal identity, and even destiny.

Craft says the book offers a toolkit for creating a life of sustaining pleasures, purpose and invention.

And at all times remaining a love letter to Santa Fe.

鈥淚t really was a whole lifetime to write it,鈥� Craft says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 an actual memoir and spiritual experiences.鈥�

Craft says it is a book particularly of interest and relevance to local readership, because Santa Fe 鈥� with its restaurants, its legends, its sights and sensibilities 鈥� isn鈥檛 just the backdrop, but is itself a main character.

鈥淣ot to mention that, for 100 years, the city has constructed and marketed an idea of the 鈥楽anta Fe artistic persona鈥� with a vision of the eccentric artist living in the American Southwest with an independent spirit and knack for weaving their dreams into reality,鈥� Craft says. 鈥� 鈥楢uto Antenna鈥� is a companion piece to that living mythology, as being far more than a marketing scheme to support what鈥檚 long been the central economic engine of this town: well-spent tourist dollars. But an abiding, precious and present reality for a large portion of its inhabitants.鈥�