Sweetwater's Star Power Commands High Price For Her Books 

The listing http://www.ebay.com/itm/Buckskin-Skirt-Oar-Traveler-Sage-Sweetwater-2005-Paperback-Sage-Sweetwater-Trade-Paper-2005-/343218868954?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4fe97052da appeared after Sweetwater announced on Authors Den that she was writing The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler script book-to-film adaptation for Hollywood 3D animated film. The listing will most likely run out after the book has been purchased, and re-stocked. Other high double-figure Sweetwater paperback books are selling consistently at other venues. It's not the first time a Sweetwater book has sold for high double-figures. Sweetwater still collects her book royalties from her publisher each quarter which is paid out to Sweetwater at three dollars per paperback book sold, the price set by Sweetwater through her publisher's practice of allowing authors to set the price for their own books.

Sweetwater tells you the difference between Live Action and Animation Script Writing

When Sweetwater wrote her Native American lesbian novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler many years ago, she had in mind animated film. When you read the novel, it should be understandable that it was formatted for an easy adaptation for a full-length animated feature film. Just the way she designed the characters and the settings are proof enough that animation is clearly represented and why the idea of an animated screenplay scripted by Sweetwater in the book-to-film adaptation easily fits into this fascinating new age category of cinema.

Animation stories are developed pretty much the same as in live action. It’s the differences that are important to understand. Animation is a much more uniquely visual medium than live action. Most live-action scripts require no special description for what’s taking place on the screen, although Sweetwater's live-action scripts are hugely and accurately descriptive packed in detailed, artistic value. In fact, all of Sweetwater's scripts are so descriptive, that it makes her high-budget Hollywood films stand out as unique and one-of-a-kind. In animation where the visuals are very often something we’ve never seen before, so they can’t be described in a few words. Animation scenes are like eight times as many words, but it gives you a complete visual image with little need for interpretation. By its very nature, animation requires more description to effectively communicate the visual. So the key difference between an animated and live-action script is that an animation script usually contains more detailed scene description. What this means is that if an animation writer doesn’t describe it—and describe it precisely—the chances are it won’t appear on the screen, at least not the way she/he imagined it. This is because unlike in live action, there’s an animation director, but deals more with visual continuity and less with story continuity. The descriptions need to be precise enough to survive translation. And the rest is up to the voice actors.

The time is right for Sweetwater to adapt The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler for an animated story on screen. It's just something she's always wanted to do, and The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is one of those rare stories that lends itself to animation. Sweetwater says "it's all about thinking ahead when writing your stories. Think film."

The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is translating well animated in film. Sweetwater is casually in the process of the adaptation with both of her oars in the water in retirement, which happened in the month of September 2013.

Movie making with a keen eye looking at The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler, Sage Sweetwater as a Loon & Salmon Environmentalist Creative Thinker

Sage Sweetwater's Authors Den poetry easily attracts Hollywood investors, film producers, directors, actresses, and actors. Her poetry and essays are easily fitted into a logline and film treatment without any additional effort from Sage.  Her poem April The Spearfish Moon: Spawning Run is taken right off the pages of her lesbian novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler

The Return of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Author uses Novel to Revive Cult Genre of Mid 20th Century

Sage Sweetwater revives lesbian pulp fiction in her novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler. The novel jaunts through time to tell the stories of nontraditional women and their struggle to live their lives among the warm embrace of Mother Nature.

Set deep in the forest of Lac du Flambeau, Wis., the novel is told through the spirit of the loon with a hint of lesbian fairytale. In the woods of this beautiful land, sprites and magical creatures frolic and torment while the loons dance and transform on the pristine waters of the lakes and rivers. The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is a woman raised with a deep respect for nature and the skills to survive on the fringes of modern society. She slips her canoe into the water, floats supplies up and down the river and taps maple trees for their syrup. Her lesbian counterpart Fringe Water Many Bosom, lives in the 1800s; a true pioneer woman. Her story mirrors Buckskin's and exhibits what life may have been like for her.

Metaphorically, (she reminds) us of a loon's wing which has not 'properly' aligned, society waiting for her to molt her feathers hoping her new ones will come in 'straight.'

The novel follows exploits of Buckskin and her home, the Hamlet of Winonah, an all-female colony inhabited by a feminist tribe patterned after the ancient Hopewell culture. This modern-day colony is on the remote side of the woods where the Province of Blige, a Celtic, post-card Ireland, enchants the world around them. Buckskin makes her way between the two as she learns to live the life she wants and grows comfortable in her own skin.

A captivating pulp novel, The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is a unique mix of lesbian fiction, fairytale, and Native American mythology.
 

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Sage Sweetwater reminds us through her environmentalist bent novel of the loons' well-being and also that of the salmon in storylines throughout this novel.

Sweetwater, a passionate environmentalist, sets a storyline for the loons through her character of Grayson who rehabilitates the loons from injury. Sweetwater purveys that the idea of the loons can be raised and rehabilitated by Grayson and still successfully interact with the wild flocks. The idea goes well with the Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler who represents the clean river. The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler's attitude is one of that treats water as a life form in need of environmentalist friends. Following the watercourse of this novel, Sweetwater's readers will engage in environmental issues all along the way through The Hamlet of Winonah and Blige, the cradle of life, feeling zonal shifts, entering into other worlds and a totality of all earthly existing things.

Sage Sweetwater gives storyline to a hard-hitting impact of the Dog Salmon of the Yukon in this novel. The preservation of the Yukon's Dog Salmon depends greatly on the banishing of the hydro-electric dams near these salmon inlets and outlets. The storyline (think film) has the Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler oaring down the Yukon river to the salmon spawning beds. Something is blocking the dam and the only way to recover the dog salmon is to breech the dams, where huge chunks of concrete have been thrown into the river. The oracle bones make a revelation as to another reason why the Dog Salmon have been trapped. Read the book and find out what has blocked the Dog Salmon.

Sweetwater uses the real truth of the matter in environmental terms. Will the Dog Salmon survive? In reality, if the Dog Salmon do not survive, then the sled dogs have to be euthanized because the sled dogs need the Dog Salmon for nourishment to survive. The adult salmon's migration upstream is not the problem. The dams are fitted with fish ladders, wide, concrete waterways that guide the salmon above the dam. Some get trapped and others get through. The lethal part comes when the smolts, the young salmon, migrate downstream. The turbines kill not only by chopping up the young salmon with the blades, but also by exploding their swim bladders through the powerhouses at a high pressure and speed.

Sage Sweetwater educates her readers by the way of lesbian pulp fiction. Her novels are a lesbian encyclopedia to the contribution of the world, rich with environmental, political, social, and religious themes.

April The Spearfish Moon: Spawning Run

April the Spearfish Moon,
birds pause on a bough to listen
to her songs, river stops flowing
to hear her tune,

spawning runs, she lures
Trout Fish she catches with
her tune April the Spearfish Moon,
muskrat, beaver, water beetle, crawfish,
coot, female loon,

sugar cakes rolled up
in birch bark cones, quick
energy for being on the move
with the seasons,

snowshoe walks upon
the soul of Mother Snow,
wine-berry-colored wool tassels
on the bottom of snowshoe frame
muffles sound of crunching through
snow's crust, April the Spearfish Moon
thaws a crisp whisper juiced with lust,

it all pans out in the name
of the berry__blueberry,
huckleberry, gooseberry,
raspberry, her berry,

first-born daughters
first make blanket__on
riverbank of soon-to-be-
salmon-rich river, fabric the
color of wild rhubarb, scarlet,
passionate, April the Spearfish
Moon,

ice clears, they come
from the Great Lakes,
running the rivers, fishing
run follows sugaring season,

April the Spearfish Moon,
she often mentions her lesbianism,
shadow-fringed, moss-soft, find a
woman who can be your shadow
you be hers too,

have full understanding
of her, make sure she has
full understanding of you. Watch
for leaflet three when you drop your
buckskin fringe and go moss-soft,

when this happens,
put away all that is new
and bring out some of the
old, when you have found this
woman, paint her on your oars.

April the Spearfish Moon...

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, Celebrity firebrand lesbian novelist