Sorry for lack of blogs, folks. Fact is, I've gotten in stride into my Oz book, and want to get it finished soon. I told my editor that ...

Cross-posted from my WordPress blog . In The Wishing Horse of Oz , we meet Bitty Bit, the Seer of Some Summit. I said a little bit (or shou...

1935, Thompson's fifteenth Oz novel, exactly one more than L. Frank Baum had written, not counting short stories, picture books, or anyt...

Oh, hi! Um, yeah... I didn't blog in about a month. I moved, so there was a bit of upheaval in my life, and having a computer break do...

In this episode, Jared Davis interviews Clayton Spinney and Sean Gates, the director and writer of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard ...

I spoke before my thoughts on how I feel Oz is best depicted and how often it shouldn't be depicted. For this post, I'd like to ex...

Since Valentine's Day just recently ended, I suppose it would be appropriate to talk about hearts. And since this is an Oz post, I'...

Cross-posted from Vovatia . Much of the plot of Speedy in Oz takes place on Umbrella Island, a land that flies through the air under the po...

Cross-posted from my LiveJournal . One character I see cropping up from time to time on lists of favorites is literally a living fossil. Te...

To continue with my old posts on characters from Ojo , here's Mooj, a magician and a clockmaker, who was known to turn people into clock...