Swimming Lessons — Cristina Salat

An unconventional novel based on fictional in-depth interviews with long-term partners writer/director Machete Paisan and actress/producer Emme Watley, co-founders of the award-winning Pele Productions film studio. The center of industry controversy for decades for many reasons including having met when one of them was 15 and the other far older, this erotic classic is the conscious-person's Lolita. However, unlike much of what Hollywood romanticizes, it is not a tale of love-gone-wrong...but rather of love that lasts and changes the very landscape it thrives in. As the heretical subjects inform journalist Macy Lee Gray: "No more words need be wasted on the accolades we've won, or who said what about us over the years and what we thought about that. What we'd like now, to leave for posterity, is the happily-ever-after life we've lived...the Story of Us."