The difference between a princess and a wicked witch can be very hard to see.
I am absolutely delighted to announce that my story, "Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust," will be appearing in the anthology Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond, edited by John Joseph Adams and Douglas Cohen. It will be available in February 2013.
Let's be honest here. You've always wanted to see a grown-up, embittered, lesbian Dorothy living with her girlfriend (Polychrome, naturally) in the slums of the Emerald City, solving crimes with the aid of her trusty gourd Friday, Jack Pumpkinhead, haven't you? Well, now you can.
And yes, this is the story that inspired me to start working on a dark urban fantasy Oz trilogy. Because sleep is for the weak, or something.
Joining the chorus of 'oh, hell yes!" and various similar exclamations!
I was so into Oz as a kid that I wanted to join the L. Frank Baum Society until I found out the dues were way more than my allowance :(
Now they are pretty easy to find (especially with e-publishing, but the physical books are too), but when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, some of the more obscure books (not even the Ruth Plumly Thompsons and such, just the later Baum titles and his non-Oz books) were pretty hard to find and I was sort of obsessed with tracking down them all.
Out of the original 14, I could never get my hands on _The Tin Woodman of Oz_ and still haven't read it.
All of which is a long winded way of saying, yes, an adult-oriented Oz retelling (a whole book of them!) would rock.
Project Gutenberg does as well. I just need to go back and re-read them sometime and hit Tin Woodman for the first. I just recently found an Eloise McGraw Oz book that I'd never heard of (The Merry-Go-Round of Oz) at a used bookstore, so of course I bought it.
And I love Eric Shanower and Skottie Young's comic book retellings for Marvel--they've said that they plan to do all of the original 14 and so far the sales seem to be going strong. The text is really faithful to Baum and the visuals are very fresh and obviously inspired by the text rather than the film.
ecstatic
October 25 2012, 02:38:18 UTC 4 years ago
I was so into Oz as a kid that I wanted to join the L. Frank Baum Society until I found out the dues were way more than my allowance :(
Now they are pretty easy to find (especially with e-publishing, but the physical books are too), but when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s, some of the more obscure books (not even the Ruth Plumly Thompsons and such, just the later Baum titles and his non-Oz books) were pretty hard to find and I was sort of obsessed with tracking down them all.
Out of the original 14, I could never get my hands on _The Tin Woodman of Oz_ and still haven't read it.
All of which is a long winded way of saying, yes, an adult-oriented Oz retelling (a whole book of them!) would rock.
October 25 2012, 02:54:46 UTC 4 years ago
October 25 2012, 02:55:53 UTC 4 years ago
October 25 2012, 03:22:44 UTC 4 years ago
And I love Eric Shanower and Skottie Young's comic book retellings for Marvel--they've said that they plan to do all of the original 14 and so far the sales seem to be going strong. The text is really faithful to Baum and the visuals are very fresh and obviously inspired by the text rather than the film.