I am heading back to Chittenango, NY, next week—the birthplace of Oz creator L. Frank Baum—for Oz-Stravaganza 2016! Here is a link to the schedule of events, June 3-5, 2016!

I will be one of the special guests again, this time alongside film and TV star Bronson Pinchot, author Grant Menzies, actress Emma Ridley (Princess Ozma in “Return to Oz”), Judy Garland costume collector, author, and preservationist Jonathan Shirshekan, Emmy-winning Oz and Garland author, producer, and preeminent historian John Fricke, TV and radio film critic Ryan Jay, and “MGM Munchkin by marriage” Myrna Swensen! I am selling and signing books and T-shirts as well as giving a formal talk Friday evening on my former “second-grade pen pal” Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West herself!

Hope to see many of you there!

Paul Miles Schneider packs his new silver shoes, along with several pieces of correspondence from his second-grade pen pal, the Wicked Witch of the West herself, Margaret Hamilton. Oz-Stravaganza! 2016.