Hi! I'm Jonathan Cohen, a queer writer, and creator of the Lavender Tavern podcast, an anthology of original queer fairytales.
We launched on Valentine's Day (appropriate!) this year, and you can subscribe and find more information at https://www.lavendertavern.com.
If you'd like some backstory, you can read an interview I did with Discover Pods at: https://discoverpods.com/podcast-spotlight-the-lavender-tavern/
The first season's fairytales are:
- The Unlucky Gambler: In a world where everyone is born with a pair of dice that determines their fate, how can the unluckiest man alive make his way?
- The Demon's Tale: "No, you cannot wish for three more wishes. No, you cannot wish for an infinite number of wishes. And no, I cannot give you the power to grant wishes." Dear human, Akuma the demon has been trapped in a lamp for nearly 1,000 years. Now he's going to tell you HIS side of the story.
- The Scrying Eye: A man that has magically travelled from Bernard's future wants to help him avoid his mistakes to come, but Bernard finds that destiny has a mind of its own.
- A Plague of Reason: Even though magic has been extinct for a century, Edric, an old student wants to convince his professor Sorrel that he's rediscovered it. Sorrel, however, wants to convince Edric that the magic he's performing is all in his mind.
- The Tavern at the End of the World: On the edge of an endless fog, a lonely bartender welcomes a weary traveler. They've each got a tale to tell the other, but who's really telling the truth?
- The Golden Door: Finn can go through any door in the town of Wolfwater except one...because he's too fat to fit through it. But Finn is determined to find out what's behind the golden door. No matter what.
- The Knight and the Dragon: Every town menaced by a dragon could use a knight. Every lonely wizard could also use a knight. What happens to a love affair when the dragon has been defeated?
- Myer's Helping Hand: Meet Myer, an absentminded young mage. Now meet Myer's helping hand, the daemon he creates so that he can find the things he misplaces. Myer is about to discover that giving humanity the ability to search for anything, at any time, can lead to catastrophe.
There are also 13 shorter fairytales that will be released in mid-June in episodes of two 'minisodes.'
I'm currently working on a novel about a floating village full of hundreds of people with amnesia, and a guardian/judge who has to solve the village's fir
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