duckprintspress | Coming Soon: Pride Bundles 2025

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You heard it here first: Duck Prints Press will be returning this June with our third-annual Bundles for Charity drive! We will be supporting Rainbow Railroad again, as voted on by the authors who contributed to the short story bundles, and this year we’ll be offering three bundles, not two!

General Imprint Bundle: Princess Antonia del Montari, aka the Accidental Barista by A. L. Heard; The Problem with Wishes by Annabeth Lynch; So Much Braver by boneturtle; Unsafe Haven by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec; Got You Covered by D. V. Morse; Troubled Trouble by Genevieve Maxwell; Ride On, Shooting Star by J. D. Harlock; A Thousand Hopes, A Thousand Risks by Kelas Lloyd; The Ending Line of Casablanca by Lucy K. R.; Going Dark by Max Jason Peterson; The Waiting Wife by Mikki Madison; The Deadman’s Gambit by Nicola Kapron; The Inscrutable Fate of the ISV Devotion by S. J. Ralston; Best Friends AND… by Tris Lawrence; In Fine Feather by Violet J. Hayes; and The Lighthouse and the Sea by Zel Howland. 16 stories! 222 pages/69,029 words. Price: $21.50 USD. Approximately half of the sales price for the General Imprint Bundle will be donated to Rainbow Railroad!
Explicit Imprint Bundle: A Blessing Shared by A. L. Heard; Running Mates by boneturtle; sweet static by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec; The Benefits of Consequences by Dei Walker; In the Moonlight by E. V. Dean; then, too, at sea by ilgaksu; What Monsters Need by Lyn Weaver; Hold My Reins by Lyonel Loy; The Fated Prince by Mikki Madison; Lust by Nina Waters; Tough Job, Sweet Reward by Samantha M. Piper; Escape by Sanne Burg; Dancing for the King by Terra P. Waters; Just Let Me Lose Control by Tris Lawrence; and This Treatment for Chronic Pain has an Unbelievable Side Effect! by Xianyu Zhou. 15 stories! 248 pages/86,593 words. Price: $24.00 USD. Approximately half of the sales price of the Explicit Imprint Bundle will be donated to Rainbow Railroad!
and, debuting for the first time now that we offer artwork to our backers on Patreon – the Art Bundle: Ol’ Reliable by Aaron Kotze; Samhain by Aceriee; I want to be different. by Jagoda Zirebiec; Spark by May Barros; Snow Heart by Max Jason Peterson; april’s sweet showers by radicalhoodie; untitled (Mermaids) by swev.art; and Chrysopoeia by Zel Howland. 8 artworks! Price: $12.75. Approximately a quarter of the sales price of the Art Bundle will be donated to Rainbow Railroad!

Three bundles! Discounted stories! Thirty-two creators! Many different genres! Lots of flavors of queer! A pile of great stories and artwork for buyers, and a heap of funds raised for a wonderful cause! What could be better?

Join us on June 1st, 2025, and help us raise money for Rainbow Railroad this coming Pride month. Follow us on the social media platform of your choice and/or subscribe to our newsletter to make sure you don’t miss out!

Did you know? Most of these stories and artworks are already available to our backers on Patreon! Become a backer today!