When One Door Closes

Beyond the Wizard in 2025

I have an important decision to make. Now that we’ve finished reading Book 7 in the Wizard of Oz series of 40 books:

a. Do I continue reading the series as planned?

b. Do I stop here and go back to the very beginning?

c. Do I stop altogether and reflect on why I started this and whether or not it’s worth continuing?

At this time I need to reflect more than anything. The point of Beyond the Wizard was to give me a motivator to read all of the stories so I could write my own twist on this tale. But somewhere along the way I allowed myself to be dissuaded from this purpose. Instead, it became a place where I was only releasing chapters of the books without much of anything else. I stopped releasing The Oz Gazette, which was my favorite part of this journey. I miss it. I miss not implementing all the ideas I had beyond just reading the stories week-to-week.

It is my own fault for not just persevering and doing what I wanted regardless of how everyone else may or may not have felt about it. I realize many of you came here just for the chapters and perhaps I didn’t do the best job of explaining the purpose of Beyond the Wizard and its intentions moving forward.

So, I completely understand if you all unsubscribe from here once I say, Beyond the Wizard will end on Book 7 and I don’t foresee it returning in 2025. I need to find that spark that I had last year when I started this up and hopefully that spark will ignite me into what’s next for Beyond the Wizard.

Till we meet again I wish you all well in the new year and appreciate tremendously all of you who’ve remained and continued to read the stories and leave comments with your thoughts.

Sincerely Yours,

A Traveler Through Oz…