It is a nice byline, a bloody good one. The Globe is roughly Canada's equivalent to the New York Times, so this feels doubly-good as my first sale.
Funny thing about Oz as a shared-world — until you said so, I thought the Wicked series was the only one playing in Baum's sandbox.
Another amusing note: I'm not sure I've ever read the original. Seen the 1939 movie (more than once) of course, but it's just possible I've never read the book.
My sisters and I read several of the Oz books as children, and watched the movie countless times.
"Oz" became one of the first popular Fantasy-genre series, and when Baum passed away, quickly became a shared-world one as well, as Ruth Thompson then other authors took up that official mantle.
As it's passed out of copyright, the whole thing has become a free-for-all.
BTW, there's a great made-for-TV biopic starring John Ritter as L. Frank Baum.
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Shared worlds
Date: 2009-01-24 07:03 pm (UTC)It is a nice byline, a bloody good one. The Globe is roughly Canada's equivalent to the New York Times, so this feels doubly-good as my first sale.
Funny thing about Oz as a shared-world — until you said so, I thought the Wicked series was the only one playing in Baum's sandbox.
Another amusing note: I'm not sure I've ever read the original. Seen the 1939 movie (more than once) of course, but it's just possible I've never read the book.
Re: Shared worlds
Date: 2009-01-24 07:55 pm (UTC)"Oz" became one of the first popular Fantasy-genre series, and when Baum passed away, quickly became a shared-world one as well, as Ruth Thompson then other authors took up that official mantle.
As it's passed out of copyright, the whole thing has become a free-for-all.
BTW, there's a great made-for-TV biopic starring John Ritter as L. Frank Baum.