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Premier Novels:
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-Forgiveness for Forgotten Dreams

-How to Write a Story...Any Story

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Book Reviews:
-Cheyenne Warrior

-Forgiveness for Forgotten Dreams

-How to Write A Story...Any Story

-Making It In The Business

-Nobody Drowns In Mineral Lake

"It is rare when a non-Indian can reach out and touch the Indian soul as you have."
Helen Oxford
Director of The Leonard Peltier Support Group Los Angeles Branch

"A chance to crawl inside and around an original Hollywood screenplay...is has become a classic, especially among those who count: Native Americans, especially women. Great for film buffs or for a unique format in recreational reading."
The Book Reader, Spring 1998

As Reviewed By Christopher Wehner:
Cheyenne Warrior was released in 1994 by Concorde/New Horizens Coporation. It starred Kelly Preston, Pato Hoffmann, Bo Hopkins, Dan Maggerty, Winterhawk, Joseph Wolves Kill and many others. The Video cassette is available from New Horizens Home Video. (Check local video store for more information).
Main Characters: Rebecca, Hawk, Mathew, Daniel Kearney, Otto Nielson, and Cyrus Barley (played by a favorite actor of mine Don Haggerty).
The story is essentially a love story intertwined in murder, war, and tradition. After a deadly gunfight, Hawk is badly wounded and Rebecca must mend him back to health. She, herself is pregnant, and must deal with the tragic loss of her husband. After healing, Hawk gets help from his tribe for Rebecca who is about to give birth. From this point on the story explores issues of love and tradition. All within the framework of the old West, and the Frontier.
The story about how Cheyenne Warrior came to be is very interesting and insightful. I recommend that everyone pay attention to that detail. The story has plenty of action, and the love story is very believable. It's hard to pull of a love story in the setting in which it was done, and that's an accomplishment.
The author's commentary is mainly on the background on how he sold the screenplay. More reference to the screenplay and how the original story was different from the movie would have been nice -- as only a few comments are made concerning this. A more detailed breakdown (and not a lot would have been needed) of how the story developed within the writing process, would have presented a better learning tool for writers. As it stands, the screenplay is a good read and the commentary on how the script was sold is interesting.
The movie and screenplay have received excellent praise from such sources as TV Guide. Cheyenne Warrior has been hailed by many Native Americans as a piece that upholds their culture with dignity, and pride.
- Christopher
Christopher Wehner is webmaster of The Screenwriters Utopia

Books of the Week
By John Austin http://www.ez2.net/hollywood/61998books.html

Cheyenne Warrior By Michael B. Druxman The Original Screenplay With Author Commentary

The cover blurb reads: "Tragedy Brought Them Together. Tradition Tore Them Apart" This is the book of the Screenplay of Cheyenne Warrior that was produced and released in 1994 by Concorde/New Horizons Corp and starred Kelly Preston, Plato Hoffman, Bo Hopkins and Dan Haggerty. A video cassette is available from New Horizon Home Video.
Set in the "Old West" during the American Civil War, Cheyenne Warrior is an elegant, realistic western relating the forbidden love story of a young, pregnant pioneer woman and a Cheyenne Warrior chief wounded by buffalo hunters. The screenplay espouses tolerance and is well presented by Druxman, a Hollywood veteran of various pursuits within the industry. Cheyenne Warrior is, in our opinion, an important book for writers and film lovers at all levels. Once this has been done, one will realize that screenwriting is hard work. Druxman, in this instance, gives the reader a behind the scenes look at an original screenplay in its unproduced form...prior to filming. Druxman's unusual commentary gives the structure to the relatively seldom disclosed production process. After all, as Druxman explains, the screenplay had a twenty-year "gestation period." The basic idea for the story "came" to Druxman in the 1970's!

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