Great stories are told again and again.
Time has this way of remembering the entertaining ones. But all too often the story behind the story is left out. Sometimes these tales are never told, and one is left to wonder. Other times, the revelations are so shocking the author never writes them down, for fear of what the characters might do. And sometimes a new author will pick up where the first one left off; or in this case… where he started.

Welcome to Bloom’s Nonestica

It’s likely that you’ve heard the story about the twister, the one about the Road of Yellow Brick. Perhaps you’ve learned of the grisly origins of theTin Woodsman, or the man who flew to there in a hot air Balloon and called himself a Wizard. You may have seen it in a movie, or read it in a book. Yet, so few ever stop to wonder about the how and why. Have you?

Over a hundred years ago, L. Frank Baum told the classic story of a strange and mysterious place that was both wonderful and terrible; a far off and uncivilized country where anything is possible. A place that was isolated not only from the rest of the world, but its neighbors. Political upheaval was the norm, rather than the exception. And a great and terrible wizard attempted in vain to free the small country from the tyrannous rule of the Wicked Witches.

Baum told us about the girl from Kansas who ended up there by circumstance, and the story of several interesting and unique characters on their journey to find what they all thought they lacked down the Road of Yellow Brick.

In the years that followed, there were many other books about this magnificent and frightening place. Many new stories were told about the things that happened there after the girl from Kansas killed the Witches.

But Baum would never publish the true account of how and why it came to be, before the beginning.

There are reasons why it has never been told until now.

There are reasons for everything.

Read Nonestica, Rise of the Witches.

Coming soon.