Pre-Order “Missed Fortunes” by Tris Lawrence!

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Duck Prints Press is excited to open pre-orders on our next novel! Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence is the middle book of the Twinned trilogy, a very queer series of books set at the fictional Pine Hills University in upstate New York, focused on the lives of a group of college students trying to navigate all the usual challenges of university while also juggling their individual magical Talents and, oh, maybe sort of kinda the risk of the world ending. Book 1, Commit to the Kick, has been available for sometime, and we are working on editing book 3 for a summer Kickstarter launch with merch and more. Now is the perfect time to grab book 1 if you don’t already have it, pre-order book 2, and get both books read before book 3 goes to print!

The only way to pre-order this book is via the Duck Prints Press webstore!

For this campaign, we are offering both Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes in e-book and/or trade paperback formats, and we’re also offering a set of short stories including our published Welcome to Pine Hills University short stories. Make sure to check out the discounted campaign bundles to save money on your books, and note that backers will get a campaign-exclusive bookplate signed by Tris Lawrence!

The only merchandise we’re offering this campaign is our Patreon-exclusive, a postcard of the Missed Fortunes cover art! All pre-order buyers who also support our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level will get the postcard as a freebie. But don’t worry – our future Kickstarter will have more Welcome to PHU merch – you can follow that campaign’s pre-launch page right now to be sure you’re notified when it goes live.

We encourage you to check out Commit to the Kick if you haven’t already, and if you have, well, here’s the blurb for book 2…

To solve the problem of now…
Remember what lies behind…
Pass through your hopes and fears…
…to the final outcome.

Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she’s a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards.

But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war.

Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.

 

Learn more about this campaign today!

This campaign will end at 8 a.m. Eastern time on March 1st 2025.