Can you even dye my eyes to match my gown? Jolly old town!

[seanan_mcguire]

It's Oz day! It's Oz day! Oz Reimagined is available now from a bookstore or online retailer near you. I am over the moon, because Oz is the fairyland of my childhood, Oz is where I always wanted to wake up (when I didn't want to go to Gallifrey; my real ideal would have been a pair of silver slippers and a trip to the University of Gallifrey to

Comments

[ebartley]

The Kindle singles are $1.99 each. The entire book is $5.99. I think the singles are mostly useful as a courtesy to readers who are interested in the author(s) they follow but not in Oz.

I prepurchased the anthology from Amazon, started reading en route to work today. So far it's all good stuff, but whether I like any given story is hit or miss simply because whether my concept of Oz can stretch to match some but not all of the worlds depicted in the book. I suspect everyone will find three stories worth keeping but the selection of *which* three will be different (even more so than usual for a good anthology.)

Your story made me wonder if Dorothy's perception of Ozma is accurate. It's even sadder if Ozma, like Dorothy, is a basically good person doing the best she can in a rotten situation. We don't know the limitations of Ozma's power beyond that she's unable to simply send people back to the real world.

[seanan_mcguire]

Oh, totally. But every time I'm in an anthology, I hear the complaints of "I don't want everyone, I just want ____." Okay, fine: spend two dollars, get just the one you want.

I think Ozma is basically good and basically stuck in a really bad position.

[wendyzski]

I for one have never been an Oz reader, but I bought your story as a single. So at least one person thinks that option is a good one

[ohari]

For whatever arcane reason, Amazon didn't ship this one for "arrives on release date" based on preorder, so I won't have it until Tomorrow. That's ok though because I'm behind and still haven't read last weeks new thing, and I'm breifly (very briefly) head down in Scalzi's Human Division.
I was looking at advance reviews on Amazon and was deeply disturbed. The Amazon Vine (I gotta figure out how to get into that!) reviewers mostly seemed to be reviewing the book without reading the description, complaining that it was something that it never claimed to be.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yeah, me too. That's why I said anything at all. I honestly DO NOT want to mislead anyone into buying this book.

[ebartley]

The anthology's TITLE starts "Oz Reimagined." I thought that was pretty clear.

[ladymondegreen]

I am so excited for this. It arrived on my Kindle this morning and that made my day so much better.

I'm saving your story as a treat for getting all my Consonance packing finished, but I can't wait to dive into the anthology as a whole. Modern Oz goodness! *sigh* I miss Oz Squad, but I'm terrified of what a reboot might look like.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yay!

[missingvolume]

I enjoyed the collection there was one dud story for me and one that brought a tear to my eye. I was amused reading the PW review of it that the story they didn't care for was one I really liked. Different tastes all around but I really want to see more of your take of Oz.

[seanan_mcguire]

That's part of why I love reviews that come with biases, rather than being bundled with every other possible review: it lets me go "okay, but your taste is not mine."

[herefox]

Eeeee! How did I miss you were doing this?! I read Oz books over and over and over as a kid, I wanted to live there too. (although admittedly now the canon Oz where people never grow up, really? Doesn't sound nearly as appealing as an adult *grin*)

Just ordered. Should have it in time for it to be Consonance room time reading.

[seanan_mcguire]

I don't know! I posted about it!

[herefox]

I'm sure you did, I was just apparently clueless. Good news to start a morning though!