After more than a year of blood, sweat, and tears, both metaphorically and literally, I am proud to announce the release of my debut novel, Getting Back to Oz: Book One, Winnie’s Courage. This novel is the first in a trilogy filled with witches, magic, pirates, mad queens, and all sorts of fairy tale mischief.
What if the Wicked Witch were real?
Winifred Jones wakes up barefoot and bruised in a strange dungeon instead of her cozy San Diego apartment, and things just get weirder from there when she stops Dorothy Gale from murdering the Wicked Witch, accidentally releasing a magical tornado trapped inside a golden compass.
In the blink of an eye, the three women are torn from the Witch’s castle in Oz and thrust into one fairytale world of Winnie’s childhood after another. Fighting for their lives against man-eating apes, bloodthirsty pirates, and sadistic queens, they share just one common goal: to get back home.
Pick up Getting Back to Oz: Book One Winnie’s Courage today, and join Winnie on her quest as she discovers if she has the courage to return home, or stay lost forever in literary lands both familiar and dangerous.
Please enjoy a sneak peak:
Shrill yapping came from a corridor off to the left of the cage. The girl turned around, knelt on the cobblestones, and patted her lap. A small black dog raced across the courtyard to leap into her arms. She cuddled the dog for a few seconds, then set it down. She said some words to the lion, patted him goodbye, and left the courtyard through a wooden doorway in the wall on the far side of the cage.
I stared hard at her long, brown hair hanging in two braids down her back as they bounced in time with her steps, the little dog following close at her heels.
The clues had started coming together, thoughts flying around like a cyclone. A part of me deep inside didn’t want them to make sense—because then I would have to face the fact that I might have lost my mind, or worse. I might be perfectly sane, and all of this was actually happening.
A young girl with brunette braids, wearing a blue and white checkered dress.
A little black dog.
A patchwork scattering of straw and fabric.
A fearful lion caged in a castle courtyard.
Yellow-faced men slaving away in a yellow-grassed country.
A ferocious tiger-bear.
A Witch.