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Every month, we host a panel for our Patrons, featuring a group of Duck Prints Press creators joining together to discuss the topic of the month. The April panel will be this Saturday, April 26th, at 8 p.m. Eastern time (converter), and the topic is Why Do We Find Joy in Fandom and Fan Creations?

Description: That fandom is a source of community and comfort for fans is a given; if we didn’t enjoy being in fandom, why would we participate? But recognizing that we do find joy in fandom isn’t the same as considering why we find this joy. In this panel, several members of Duck Prints Press will discuss what brought them to fandom, what keeps them in fandom, and examine the whys and wherefores of being fandom members and fan creators. Topics will include: why did we join fandom in the first place; what drew us to begin creating fanworks; what sparks that certain “something” that makes one fandom “the one” rather than another; what we do when the passion wanes; and why we have stayed in fandom long-term.

Panelists: Dei Walker, Tris Lawrence, May Barros, Shea Sullivan, Alex Bauer, and callmesalticidae

Nina Waters will serve as a moderator.

All Patreon backers at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month level have access to the panels as they run and as recordings afterward. Become a backer TODAY to join us this Saturday!

Curious about the panels but don’t want to become a monthly backer? Six months after our panels broadcast, the recordings go up for sale in our Patreon store! There’s currently only one listing, but we encourage you to check it out: Queer Representation in Media Then and Now is available for purchase by non-backers and backers at the $3/month and $5/month levels!

April is Autism Awareness month, and we’re here to share (more) of our favorite queer autistic or autistic-coded characters! Last year we shared six books; three of those are back this year, and we’ve got 5 more. You can see the 2024 list here. The contributors to this list are: Sebastian Marie, Neo Scarlett, Tris Lawrence, Linnea Peterson, Terra P. Waters, Shadaras and boneturtle.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world.

Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship’s leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer, Aster learns there may be a way to improve her lot – if she’s willing to sow the seeds of civil war.

Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn

No one with half a brain would rob the jungle’s most notorious energy cartel-but their power-producing stones are the only thing that soothes Cacao’s mysterious pain, and after being banished from his homeland for similar thefts, the lonely naga is desperate enough to try.

When his ramshackle thievery goes wrong, a chaotic escape leaves him chained to the cartel’s prisoner: a self-proclaimed hero with a hidden stash of power stones so large that Cacao would never need to steal again. He’s determined to get his hands on it, even if it means guiding the annoyingly smug, annoyingly valiant, and even more annoyingly beautiful hero back home. But their path runs straight through the mist-laden and monster-filled swamp that exiled Cacao, with scheming poachers and a desperate cartel leader on their tail.

The selfish and the self-righteous can only flee together for so long before something snaps…

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester by Maya MacGregor

Sam Sylvester has long collected stories of half-lived lives—of kids who died before they turned nineteen. Sam was almost one of those kids. Now, as Sam’s own nineteenth birthday approaches, their recent near-death experience haunts them. They’re certain they don’t have much time left.

But Sam’s life seems to be on the upswing after meeting several new friends and a potential love interest in Shep, their next-door neighbor. Yet the past keeps roaring back—in Sam’s memories and in the form of a thirty-year-old suspicious death that took place in Sam’s new home. Sam can’t resist trying to find out more about the kid who died and who now seems to guide their investigation. When Sam starts receiving threatening notes, they know they’re on the path to uncovering a murderer. But are they digging through the past or digging their own future grave?

Ellen Outside the Lines by A.J. Sass

Thirteen-year-old Ellen Katz feels most comfortable when her life is well planned out and people fit neatly into her predefined categories. She attends temple with Abba and Mom every Friday and Saturday. Ellen only gets crushes on girls, never boys, and she knows she can always rely on her best-and-only friend, Laurel, to help navigate social situations at their private Georgia middle school. Laurel has always made Ellen feel like being autistic is no big deal. But lately, Laurel has started making more friends, and cancelling more weekend plans with Ellen than she keeps. A school trip to Barcelona seems like the perfect place for Ellen to get their friendship back on track. Except it doesn’t. Toss in a new nonbinary classmate whose identity has Ellen questioning her very binary way of seeing the world, homesickness, a scavenger hunt-style team project that takes the students through Barcelona to learn about Spanish culture and this trip is anything but what Ellen planned.

Making new friends and letting go of old ones is never easy, but Ellen might just find a comfortable new place for herself if she can learn to embrace the fact that life doesn’t always stick to a planned itinerary.

May the Best Man Win by Z.R. Ellor

Jeremy Harkiss, cheer captain and student body president, won’t let coming out as a transgender boy ruin his senior year. Instead of bowing to the bigots and outdate school administration, Jeremy decides to make some noise—and how better than by challenging his all-star ex-boyfriend, Lukas for the title of Homecoming King?

Lukas Rivers, football star and head of the Homecoming Committee, is just trying to find order in his life after his older brother’s funeral and the loss of his long-term girlfriend—who turned out to be a boy. But when Jeremy threatens to break his heart and steal his crown, Lukas kick starts a plot to sabotage Jeremy’s campaign.

When both boys take their rivalry too far, the dance is on the verge of being canceled. To save Homecoming, they’ll have to face the hurt they’re both hiding—and the lingering butterflies they can’t deny.

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.

Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.

And they’ll scare you straight to hell.

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.

But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.

But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard

Việt Nhi is not good with people. Or politics. Which is a problem when the Rooster clan sends her on the mission against her will, forcing her to work with an ill-matched group of squabbling teammates from rival clans, including one who she can’t avoid, and maybe doesn’t want to.

Hạc Cúc of the Snake clan has always been better at poisoning and stabbing than at making friends, but she’s drawn to Nhi’s perceptiveness and obliviousness to social conventions—including the ones that really should make Nhi think twice about spending time with her.

But when their imperial envoy and nominal leader is poisoned, this crew of expendable apprentices will have to learn to work together—fast—before the invisible Tangler can wreak havoc on a civilian city and destroy the fragile reputation of the clans. Along the way, Nhi and Hạc Cúc will have to learn the hardest lesson of all: to see past their own misconceptions and learn to trust their growing feelings for each other.

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The Fifth Annual May Trope Mayhem Starts Soon!

What is May Trope Mayhem? It’s Duck Prints Press’s annual multi-fandom/original work creation event! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve picked 31, one per day of May, to make an awesome, fun, diverse list of prompts to inspire your creativity. Come May 1st, we invite everyone to create a ficlet, artwork, gif set, photo montage, or whatever else they feel like, inspired by the trope of the day. We’re open to any fandom or no fandom at all, original characters and old faves, any ship (yes even that one) or no ship or reader inserts or, or, or… If you can imagine it, we’d love to see you create it!

Check out past May Trope Mayhem’s…

• the 2021 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2022 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2023 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the 2024 May Trope Mayhem list and rules
• the AO3 Parent Collection

No changes are being made to the rules for 2025, so you can get the gist by checking out the past challenges.

The 2025 May Trope Mayhem List will be released on April 23 2025. Follow us on the social media of your choice to make sure you don’t miss it!

This week, April 13 to 19, is “Hate Week,” named after the “holiday” in George Orwell’s 1984. The resulting real event is an opportunity to highlight the realities that people who live under dictatorships and totalitarian states face. We asked our usual rec list contributors for their favorite books on this topic – and, given the tensions of the current time and the dangers so many of us face, we did not restrict them to reccing books with queer representation. The resulting list of books was so long that we are splitting it into two posts – today’s, highlighting fiction books, and one that will post later this week, featuring non-fiction books. The contributors to this list are: Rascal Hartley, Nina Waters, boneturtle, Sanne, Linnea Peterson, Shadaras, Shannon, Owl Outerbridge, Meera S., theirprofoundbond, Rhosyn Goodfellow and an anonymous contributor.

• The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
• The Circle by Dave Eggers
• The Trial by Franz Kafka
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• The Broken Earth Series by N.K. Jemisin
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
• Infomocracy by Malka Older
• Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick
• Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly
• Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
• The Declaration by Gemma Malley
• Shadow Children Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
• Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

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Duck Prints Press keeps our lights on month to month with the income from our Patreon, which ensures the Press has a minimum, reliable, steady stream of money coming in that we can use for software subscriptions, paying editors and authors and artists, maintaining the physical equipment the business needs, covering registration fees for events, taking care of gas when we travel to vend, and more. Every single backer helps, and we want YOU to become one of those backers, if you’re able (or spread the word if you’re not – that helps too!). Backers get behind-the-scenes access, Discord privileges, free short stories, coupons for our webstore, and more – with increasing benefits the higher the backer level!

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Today (April 10th) is Encourage a Young Writer Day, which struck us as the perfect time for our not-so-young writers to offer some sage wisdom in the form of a roundtable! We asked our contributors, “What would you tell young writers to encourage them to keep writing?” The contributors to this roundtable are: Anima Nightmate, boneturtle, Linnea Peterson, May Barros, theirprofoundbond, Rascal Hartley, Sebastian Marie, Shadaras, Shannon, Tris Lawrence, Nina Waters, Maggie Page and an anonymous contributor.

Sebastian Marie: No matter how weird or strange or absolutely ‘I’m the only one who could possibly enjoy this’ your work feels like, there is Always a contingent of beautiful weirdos out there who will adore it. And you will find them if you keep writing. So keep writing.

Nina Waters: It’s okay to take breaks. You don’t need to harm yourself mentally or physically to be a writer. There won’t always be room in your life for writing, and forgiving yourself for the times when you don’t write is critical to finding the energy to go back to it. You can’t punish yourself into doing something you love.

May Barros: No one else has your voice. Your stories are unique because they are yours, so don’t get discouraged by how other people tackle their process, find what works for you.

Rascal Hartley: Have fun with it! Don’t worry about some fabled “audience”—your audience is you. The rest will follow.

Maggie Page: Echoing similar sentiments, a couple of things that would have been good for me to hear when I was younger might help others:

1. A strict writing schedule does not work for everyone. Using timers, word count goals of different amounts, timed challenges, and other tools is great. Even if it takes using multiple motivators at once or a rotating array of methods—whatever works for you is great. Don’t beat yourself up if finding the right process is a struggle. Like unforth said, breaks are not the enemy.
2. If a topic feels meaningful to you, it will feel meaningful to others even if other voices have told similar stories before. And meaning can be found in lots of places. Writing to convey something beautiful, something humorous, something fun, and all the possibilities you can think of is no less worthy than the Dead Serious and Significant stuff a teacher might have told you that you should be writing.

Anima Nightmate:

1. Don’t feel like you have to write your work in the order it’ll be read. If you’re that kind of writer, that’s great! But plenty of us write the scenes that come into our heads and then work out where they go in the larger plot, then write connections between them. No-one needs to care how you got there to enjoy the results!
2. Having said that, enjoy the process of writing, of uncovering what your brain is bringing into the world. Marvel at the worlds and people you can piece together.
3. I would also tell them this quote by Jenny Elder Moke: Y’all stop calling your first drafts garbage. Garbage is what you throw out when you’re done with the meal. What you have there is a grocery run – a collection of items that will eventually make a cohesive meal once you figure out which flavors go together.

So the proper terminology is “omg please read this grocery fire of a WIP and tell me how to fix it”

Shadaras: Thinking specifically about young writers: You don’t need to be the best writer, or the fastest writer, or even the writer with the best spelling/grammar/vocabulary. Write at your own pace! Write with the words that work for you! Don’t worry too much about if it’s “proper” English (or whatever language you want to write in). So long as you’re using written words to share your ideas, you’re a writer.

Plus, you don’t need to do this alone! Maybe you write best when you’re talking everything over with your best friend. Maybe you need someone else helping you with spelling and grammar. Maybe you want to narrate your story while someone else (or a text-to-speech program) writes it down for you. All of those are great ways of writing! Find friends to write with! Share your ideas, brainstorm together, have fun being excited about each other’s words and worlds!

Anonymous: A lot of things have been covered already, so onto more niche topics:

1. If you’re worried about how to add deep, meaningful themes to your story, set that worry aside for the second draft. In my experience, trying to add deep, meaningful themes to your writing from the start tends to be much harder than writing something you personally thought was funny or interesting, and then seeing what themes you can bring out in draft 2. As a general rule, if you care enough about an idea to write it down, you’ll find that it already contains meaningful themes. You’ll just need to polish them and make them more obvious in the second draft.
2. Spite is your friend. If you’re mad about something, you can channel that rage into writing and end up with something that is both dripping with emotion (because you were full of spite) and really well-articulated and well-reasoned (because you must explain your spite to the reader and get them on your side).
3. Editing is so important. It’s hard, time-consuming, and really annoying, but it is key to your continued growth as a writer—and, perhaps more importantly, to your ability to present your ideas in a way that makes other people as obsessed with them as you are.

Linnea Peterson:

1. Have fun with it! The first several things you write won’t be published, so don’t agonize about quality at first, and don’t listen to the writers who talk about how they hate writing and only like having written, or how the only thing more miserable than writing is not writing. You can stop if you’re not having fun.
2. The best skill in a young writer is perseverance. Take the breaks you need, but know that coming back to writing again and again is the biggest part of eventual success—having the most beautiful prose or the wittiest dialogue only gets a person so far if they never finish anything or if they quit writing altogether.
3. Write things that you enjoy writing, or that you find cathartic to write, or that you’re proud to be writing. That can be fanfiction, short stories, poetry, music, comics, essays, etc. You don’t have to specifically be a novelist to be serious, and skills you build in one realm can inform your work in other realms.

Shannon:

1. Try different mediums! When I was starting out I was convinced I was only going to write longform prose. But I am also full of poetry and stage/screenplays and I never would have known that if I hadn’t tried! If you like writing, give yourself the space to experiment with all the different kinds of writing there are.
2. Cultivate a writing group or buddy if you can. This is something I struggled to do in the pre-internet era but it really opened up my world once I found my people—from book recommendations to group writing exercises or just a cheerleader, having folks who love your work are so crucial at every stage, but especially when you’re new. Try to find writers who will grow with you.
3. Celebrate the wins. Finish a draft? Win! Finish a tough chapter? Win! Figure out something you’ve been struggling with? Win!

Also—read widely. This advice from John Waters was for filmmakers but it applies to writers too. Just swap out films for books/short stories/poems/whatever beautiful thing you are writing.

Tris Lawrence:

1. Learning how to write can be like learning how to cook. There are a lot of recipes out there with “how things should be done” and you can try those out and figure out what works for you. But the more practice you get doing things the way other people do, the more tools you’ll have in your toolbox, and the better you’ll be able to figure out what feels/tastes right to you.
2. It’s okay if it’s not perfect on the first try. It’s okay if you feel like you need to completely rewrite it. It’s okay if you think it IS ready to roll after one draft. All of these are excellent ways of being.
3. Take joy in your words, and remember, every word you write—whether you keep it or throw it out—is another step on your journey. Roll around in the words, and fall in love with them. Because writing is a journey, as long or as short a one as you want to take, and there can always be someplace new to go, and something new to learn. Be open to the changes, and have a blast on the way.

theirprofoundbond: Your first draft doesn’t have to be “crappy,” nor do you need to hate it. Editing as you go and creating something you love is as valid a writing process as getting down a really rough first draft you don’t love and then rewriting it until you do. Whatever actually helps you get the words down, do that. Whatever stops you from getting the words down, don’t do that.

(This advice brought to you by: When I was writing my first story, I didn’t have as much fun with it as I could have. I thought I was doing something wrong because I was editing as I went, and because I really liked what I was producing. I questioned myself the whole time, but I should’ve been embracing what seemed to be working for me!)

boneturtle: Just keep writing.

What advice would you give to young writers?

1. What are you currently reading?

Uh, I'm halfway through Dungeon Meshi vol. 6, does that count? I'm not currently reading a novel. 

2. What have you recently finished reading?

So I had a whole bunch of overdue library books that I was really determined to finish, and as such I decided not to start a novel until I got through them. I also, about 3 weeks ago, went on a Libby BL spree, and all those were gonna be due in a couple days, so I also had to read through all those (one left as of now...). So I planned to not read a novel until I finished most or all of that, but then I realized part of my problem wasn't "reading a novel," it was that I bouncing off a novel as serious as Babel, so I grabbed the next book on my pile - a fluffy, low-stakes, slice-of-life stand-alone danmei - and motored through it, AND got through all the rest too. Anyway. 

• You're Too Op by Yi Xiu Luo: my novel read of the week! This is a Rosmei title, modern esports BL. It was cute, and a very quick read, and I appreciated how few extras there were, it made it all more cohesive to not have a lot of extraneous stuff at the end. I never really figured out why the ML actually liked the MC, but nonetheless, I enjoyed it and am not sorry I read it.
• Hitorijime My Hero vol. 10 by Memeco Arii: I feel like I've finally actually gotten invested in this; I borrowed the next few volumes from Libby. It's still not amazing but I'm enjoying it enough to keep going.
• Runaways Volume 1: Pride & Joy by Brian K. Vaughan: I did a little websearching on which Marvel titles were queer, and I remembered hearing good things about this one when it first came out (I was dating a huge Marvel comic fan at the time). I actually thought? I'd read the beginning??? but ngl it didn't ring any bells. Anyway, I expect to keep going, I've always liked Marvel, and I want to support the queer titles on their catalog. Just gotta find the next vol at the library.
• 全球高考 manhua vol. 2 by 木苏里: my Chinese read-of-the-month for March; I finished it a little late. Vol. 3 will be my read for April, and then I'm out of vols of it and will probably move to 天官赐福.
• The Snake Who Loved a Sparrow by Nina Natsuo: interesting fantasy BL with way more world to explain/justify than could possbily fit in a single volume. Definitely needed WAY more room to breathe to really do justice to the premise.
• How to Be Ace: A memoir of Growing Up Asexual by Rebecca Burgess: I had high hopes for this and waiting a.g.e.s. to get it from QLL, but ultimately wasn't that pleased with it. I get that it was a memoir, but with a title that claims such definitiveness, it was frustrating how much of the book was actually about the author's OCD.
• My Ultramarine Sky by Nagisa Furuya: modern BL. Utterly unmemorable among the ton of stuff I read this week.
• Don't Call Me Dirty by Gorou Kanbe: modern BL. Kinda weird story about an overly friendly guy and the homeless dude he befriends. Glossed over too many of the details to really work imo, but it was fine in and of itself.
• This Wonderful Season With You by Atsuko Yusen: modern BL. Cuteish HS title about a total dork and the former jock who falls for him. It was fine but unremarkable.
• Navigating With You by Jeremy Whitley: definitely my read of the week, this was a GREAT f/f modern romance about two girls who've both recently moved to the same backwater bonding over their love of the same manga title.
• Kaiju No. 8 vol. 12 by Naoya Matsumoto: I found this at the library, was overjoyed, and had finished it less than 2 hours later. Vol 13 when?
• Still Sick vol. 1 by Akasha: weird modern GL title about a woman finding out that her coworker sells yuri fan doujins on the weekends. I can't really figure out the not-doujin-artist, her behavior is really erratic and weird. Still, I borrowed vol. 2 so eh.
• Katakoi Lamp by Kyohei Azumi: modern BL. Pretty meh, definitely one of the weaker ones I've read.
• Delicious in Dungeon vol. 5 by Ryoko Kui
• Adversary by Blue Delliquanti: modern m/m with a trans main (who tops!) and many trigger warnings. I found the ending insanely confusing, can't say I was a fan overall.
• Wails of the Bound vol. ...2??? by Keri Kusabi: very weird omegaverse modern BL that was listed as vol 1 but I think is actually vol. 2. Took me most of the volume to figure out wtf was going on.
• The Black Cat and the Vampire vol. 1 and 2 by Nikke Taino: fantasy BL. My favorite manga read of the week, this was a cute duology which stayed pretty fluffy considering the premise. Might make it on to my list of books to buy.

3. What will you be reading next?

I borrow 10 volumes of Dungeon Meshi from the library, so...that, definitely. And for novels... well, I keep saying Babel but after realizing I'm not sure I'm up for something Serious, I might put it on hold and read some other random stuff first. I haven't really decided to be honest. If I do switch, next would be the last volume of The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish.

We are entering the second – and final – week of our pre-order crowdfunding campaign to pay for the publishing of The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers – and we’re 90% of the way to our baseline goal, and almost 40% of the way to our main goal!

Interested in the book but on the fence? Then allow us to wet your appetite: you can now read the first chapter of The Salt in the Sea completely free! Download the chapter 1 sample here!

Visit our campaign page to read the blurb, meet the author, check out the merchandise, and more!

We’re currently crowdfunding The Salt in the Sea, a m/m fantasy-mystery novella by J. D. Rivers (it’s about 80% funded – you should check it out and help us make it 100%!), so what better time to sit down and learn more about the author? Join us to learn more about JD and her work!

What are best friends for, if not some light-hearted mocking? The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers is a bittersweet m/m fantasy-mystery about old wounds and new opportunities… but “bittersweet” doesn’t mean we’re not allowed a splash of humor or five! The Salt in the Sea is a novella about building a life in the aftermath of disaster, about isolation literal and metaphorical, and about second chances. Oh, yeah, and there’s also a corpse to deal with…

Read the blurb, learn about J. D. Rivers, check campaign progress, and more on our pre-order campaign page!