Ep 112 Liz makes Ashley Return to Oz, was it worth it? | West of Wicked by Nikki St Crowe

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Nikki St. Crowe discussing her new book West of Wicked and the Oz universe.

Send us Fan Mail Did you see that we got to interview Nikki St. Crowe?! When the Queen of spicy fairytale reimaginings calls, you answer and promptly cover her new book West of Wicked! We thought we’d made it out of the Oz universe alive and *relatively* unscathed but “spoiler alert* we got sucked right back in. Are we happy about it? Listen on to find out. West of Wicked is book one in the Great and Terrible Land trilogy, with book one out now, and book two East of Envy scheduled...

People in this episode

Hosts: Liz, Ashley

Guest: Nikki St. Crowe

Topics covered

• fairytale reimaginings
• book review
• interview
• Oz universe
• trilogy discussion

Keywords

• Nikki St. Crowe
• West of Wicked
• Oz
• fairytale
• book review
• Great and Terrible Land
• East of Envy

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: West of Wicked, Great and Terrible Land trilogy, East of Envy

Places: Oz

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