Facts about the Wizard of Oz most don’t know

It has been an extrememly long time since I had read the Oz books, so while editing last night I found some pdf’s and downloaded them to my tablet and read the first and main Oz story over again. My WIP Wastelands of Oz is based from the books not the movie so I wanted to be more acurate with everything. Warner Bros. really fucked everything in that book. First of all, I’m fairly certain that everyone knows that the ruby slippers in the movie were really silver. If not, sorry to burst your bubble but the book represented a presidential campaign in the 1800’s. The silver slippers represented the silver of the country and the yellow brick road represented the gold of the country. Another thing you didn’t relize if you have (or haven’t) read the book is that Glinda is NOT the good witch of the North but is actually the good witch ofthe South. The good witch of the North is the one that greets Dorothy in Munchkin Land but she is not Glinda, she actually has no name.

So needless to say, a few small details have to be rearranged but the one top copyright infringement piece that I have to rework in my novel is that Miss Gulch never existed in the book. She was created for the movie only SO I need a new angle and have to think hard on it. Hmmm decisions, decisions.

 

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The Wastelands of Oz novel

Dorothy Gale, now an adult living back in Kansas, has contracted stomach cancer.  Her daughter Maryjane has, without Dorothy’s knowledge, taken trips to Oz and has gained knowledge of her witch powers from none other than Glinda, the good witch of the South. Though Maryjane is the most powerful magickal being in either world, she is unable to heal her mother, so she plans to return Dorothy to Oz so Glinda can heal her. However, Oz is now a wasteland controlled by a new more powerful evil, the Red Sorceress, who has taken the wizard’s place and is far worse than the wicked witch of the West. Glinda’s powers are no match for the Red Soceress, so Maryjane becomes Oz’s only saving grace . Maryjane and Dorothy find battle new monsters as they search Oz for Dorothy to meet her beloved trio of friendsone last time before the cancer takes her. Meanwhile, Maryjane’s long lost love Charlie, Glinda’s son and heir to the throne of Oz, appears but is no longer who he used to be. Now, battling not only the Red Sorceress but Charlie as well, Maryjane embarks on what is the most life changing sequence of events to happen in the life of a teenage girl.

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