Can a young girl’s dream of flying to faraway lands forge a career? Can that career change? Will the Woman still go to faraway lands and take us with her? When we speak of Tawn and the Empire of Tawnlandia the answer is of course. She can do anything she wants.
What is Tawlandia?
If you were to go to the About Page on the website you would learn that Tawnlandia is an empire forged of dreams, magic, and of course, dragons. At the head of this empire is Tawn who is the self appointed benevolent empress for life. Or as she likes to describer herself, the Dragon Empress of Tawnlandia.
But let’s get into what that means. It is a website and a community. Tawn is a content creator that runs many prongs that are all connected to the idea of helping us dream of lands of magic and dragons and pirates and anything else that matters and delights.
From her own books, to a blog, podcasts, and a unique approach to audiobooks, this is a one woman Empire of content creation.
The Voice of Tawn
Books are important to our imagination, information, and enrichment. Books enhance the social equity of a society.
Audiobooks are important to the literature world. Some have vision impairments or are neurodivergent and need alternative formats for accessibility. I am one of those. Though I have authored numerous publication and have been a columnist since 2004, I am dyslexic. Audiobooks offer me an opportunity to relax to a story and not have to work at it.
For the rest of you, life is just busy and you are going in many places at once. An audiobook may be the best way to get your book on while living that life on trains and busses and prepping meals for kids. And maybe you just like being read to instead of reading.
Audiobooks fill an important role in literature and have grown in popularity since the Walkman and allowed pirates to make copies for friends since the Mixtape.
Tawnlandia has a corner of the Empire recording and making audiobooks available in an innovative format.
When Tawn works with an author to bring their books to life on Audio format, she makes chapters available in her website in episodic form. Just like the old time radio adventures you get the audiobook chapter by chapter, or, episode by episode to discover the story as she records it. You can share it with friends and discover the stories together.
The Empire grows, the author’s audience grows, and once a book is complete and uploaded to Audible, it already has an audience and fan base ready to offer valuable reviews that will boost the signal for great books for people to discover.
Everyone wins in the Empire of Tawnlandia!
The Book(s) of Tawn
I will be honest, I am only a fraction for the way through her first Pirate Princess Adventure book, but I think it is fun and important and it has great fantasy world creation that matters. Some of the most popular fantasy fiction out there misses important aspects of good female protagonists and also writes books that are not inclusive to all children.
In one of the most popular fantasy stories out there for young and old, you will not feel welcome if you are gay, trans, black, Jewish, or overweight. She shames them all and if you name her and speak truth to power she will rein fire on you with an island of lawyers. Books like these are the antidote to that poison in worlds that are open and welcome to all, exactly as worlds should be.
It is hard enough to be young and feel the outcast. Empires of imagination should be welcoming to all.
If you want to explore this parcel of land in Tawnlandia, the books are as follows:
The Pirate Princess
Available through Amazon
Dragon Defender: A Pirate Princess Adventure
Available through Amazon
Kai’s Inquisition: The Blight of Shaddowfall
Available through Amazon
Darkling Drake
Available through Amazon
Podcasts and Blogs and More
When you go into the Empire you will also find occasional Blogs and Podcasts from the Empress where you will discover more of her Empire and thoughts on the one we live in. Tawn will never compromise or shy away from her beliefs or thoughts.
In a world where many people in Gen X are the pilots that fly us into the storms of Toxicity and hate, Tawn prefers to navigate above the storms and in that higher plane date to not only challenge storms, but seek delight, wonder, and imagination.
This is a voice that I respect and value and treasure in my generation and I hope you will too.
Collabs in the Works
Tawn and I have known each other for decades. Her empire and my little world are colliding. She is giving audio expression to the quarterly magazine so it can finally be accessible to all in my audience. More importantly, she is offering her voice to the Feminist Friday Stories. Her skillful vocal skills will give these stories that so many in our community love the important voice of a woman. This will expose those stories to a new audience and give them new life and expression.
We also have plans in the world for collaborative podcasts where we speak of these important feminist topics from a Gen X perspective that will be fearless and honest on the good, the bad, and the toxic of our generation.
No clue when all of this goes down, but it is happening.
About Tawn
There is little that I can say about her that would be enough. She was a litle girl who dreamed of being a pilot with a family that supported those dreams. As those dreams took flight and she became a professional pilot, she had to constantly fight sexism and misogyny while forging her career.
While working her ass off she started some entrepreneurial projects that succeeded and enable her to land the career of being a pilot and take flight on a dragon guiding us into a land of wonder and imagination. But this is not just fantasy for fantasy sake, she is challenging systems and sexism and racism and all the things I speak of when I speak of the women who inspired me to be a better man.
In the punk spirit of the best or the Riot Grrls and all the women I write about on Friday’s, Tawn is both the celebrity I write about and the real person I know. That is the tip of a very deep iceberg
How do I Get to Tawnlandia?
Her dragons helped me lay hyperlink mines throughout the text, but if you somehow missed those, simply go to https://www.tawnlandia.com/
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