From the desk of Sage Sweetwater when the heat is most intense...lavender smoke rises over blazing fires. This month's newsletter is For The Women Who Think They Aren't - a comprehensible journey into discovering her inner lesbian - lesbian preferences won by infinite patience. The process can take weeks, months, but more likely years. It is Sage Sweetwater's work in which she has dedicated her life that women through their inner lesbian, find a more peaceful way of life, those Magic Flutes coming out of hiding places and trilling in the moonlight...

...Taking her place among lesbians of our times, Sage Sweetwater was influenced many years ago by lesbian pulp fiction novels of the 1950s and 60s. One novel imparticulary influenced Sage to embark on a career of writing lesbian pulp fiction adjusted to modern day. That novel is titled Desert of the Heart written by Jane Rule in the early 1960s. That novel later, in 1985, was written as a screenplay and made into a movie. That movie was retitled Desert Hearts directed by lesbian filmmaker Donna Dietch. Please follow the link below which is a MUST-READ, I repeat MUST-READ, the whole point of this newsletter...

http://jclarkmedia.com/film/filmreviewdeserthearts.html

...Sage Sweetwater has been highly influenced by this classic, intense love story of two very different women – a shy professor and a freewheeling artist – who fall in love; from the groundbreaking novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Desert Hearts tells the story of Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver), a repressed English Literature professor from New York who goes to Reno for a quickie divorce in 1959. She spends the weeks, to establish the residency requirement, at a dude ranch run by the salty Frances Parker (Audra Lindley). There she meets the proprietor's stepdaughter Cay Rivvers (Patricia Charbonneau), a free-spirited young casino worker by night and an artist by day. These opposites attract, as Vivian and Cay hit it off immediately, with Cay introducing the shy academic to both the wild-west casino scene...

For The Women Who Think They Aren't, think again!

...Amazon purchase links to movie and book will be applied to Sage Sweetwater's AD bio page and Sage's July 2007 AD blog for archival purposes. In most cases, it is always better to read the book before seeing the movie that was adapted from the book, but in this case, Sage Sweetwater says to watch the movie first. The characters differ in these media versions...


Until we meet again, dear readers, have a Happy Dog Days of Summer - Sirius, the Dog Star...I love you all!


~~~~Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist~~~~