Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Jude sends news from Dark Horizons and The Movie Blog about the Sci-Fi Channel preparing a miniseries inspired by The Wizard of Oz. The network's description promises that Tin Man will be "sometimes psychedelic, often twisted and always bizarre." Among the executive producers are the Halmis.
J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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Wouldn't've even known abt this had I (k)not been tuned into radio talk show hostess Faith Salie's show on PRI, "Fair Game", and her guest, the brilliant expatriot actor fr. the U.K., Alan Cumming, who portrays the Scarecrow replete w/ a zipper forehead and half of his brain missing! Yeesh! Sure bet for MY Sunday night's t.v. mind-numbing. But the question stands, will I come back Mon. & Tues. night for the rest of it?
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