Polychrome: A Romantic Fantasy is unique in my writing experience. I don't generally write romances (although I have no aversion to romance in my novels, as long as it doesn't get explicitly... intimate which I'm terrible with). Oz is a childhood favorite series of mine, but writing IN Oz was not really a concept I played with (especially after seeing that it appeared that DEconstruction of Oz, as in "Wicked", was the popular approach).
But the concept for Polychrome burst into my head AND IT WOULDN'T LEAVE. It started writing itself in scenes from beginning to end. And then it, in effect, took my other stories (which at the time included
Grand Central Arena!) hostage; if I didn't write a chapter or two in Polychrome every week or so, I found I couldn't write anything ELSE.
So I started writing it. And not only was *I* uncertain, my beta-readers were uncertain too, especially since I knew from the start that it would in part feature an obvious Mary Sue (or Marty Stu) character. But as I had to get everything ELSE written, I had little choice. And to my surprise, and theirs, I think it ended up a very good story. I don't know if it can ever be sold -- Oziana of any type has a pretty limited audience -- but in any case, here I present the first part of
Polychrome: A Romantic Fantasy.
( Return to an Oz quite changed... )
I try to maintain the core spirit and essence of Oz in this story, even though I have considerable work to do in order to make things "make sense". I hope it works for the readers.
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