Our Favorite Reads of 2023

Inspired by this post from the Queer Liberation Library, we asked our awesome rec-list contributors to name their one favorite read of 2023, and the result is a list wonderful in its diversity of formats, genres, characters, stories, and authors. Check um out!

• Adrian Harley’s Favorite: Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
• Dei Walker’s Favorite: Consort of Fire by Kit Rocha
• Shadaras‘s Favorite: The Spear Cust Through Water by Simon Jimenez
• Terra P. Waters’s Favorite: Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
• Nina Waters‘s Favorite: Mo Du by Priest
• hullosweetpea’s Favorite: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
• Shea Sullivan‘s Favorite: Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold
• Alex‘s Favorite: The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K. S. Villoso
• Sebastian Marie’s Favorite: Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir
• Sanne’s Favorite: November by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
• E. C.’s Favorite: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
• Tris Lawrence‘s Favorite: To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh
• Nova Mason’s Favorite: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
• D. V. Morse’s Favorite: The Heartbreak Bakery by A. R. Capetta
• boneturtle‘s Favorite: Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley
• An anonymous Favorite: Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
• Cedar‘s Favorite: Add Magic to Taste
• Maggie Page’s Favorite: A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
• Lyonel Loy’s Favorite: The Last Sun by K. D. Edwards
• Neo Scarlett‘s Favorite: Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh
• Polls’s Favorite: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

What was YOUR favorite read of 2023? Dare ya to try to pick only one!

This Weekend: Duck Prints Press at Arisia!

Arisia, the largest, most diverse sci-fi and fantasy convention in New England, runs this weekend from Friday, January 12th to Monday, January 15th, and Duck Prints Press will be there!

Held at the Westin Boston Seaport District hotel, Arisia draws several thousand SFF fans for four days of panels, cosplay, shopping, music, and more. The guests of honor this year are Ryka Aoki, Winona Nelson, and Tanya DePass, and over 50 vendors will fill the vending hall with all the sci-fi and fantasy stuff you could dream of…including us!

I (unforth/Nina Waters) will be manning our vending table the entire time the dealer’s room is open. The hours are:
Friday, Jan. 12th: 5 PM Eastern – 9 PM Eastern
Saturday, Jan. 13th: 10 AM Eastern – 7 PM Eastern (closed 1 PM to 2 PM)
Sunday, Jan. 14th: 10 AM Eastern – 7 PM Eastern (closed 1 PM to 2 PM)
Monday, Jan 15th: 10 AM Eastern – 2:30 PM Eastern

Where can you find us? Easy! We’re at Table D14 – just look for the Dux!

We’ll have merchandise and campaign leftovers from all our past campaigns, AND we’ll have print copies of Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley, To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh, and Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” – a week before they and their related merch go up for sale on our website.

And, if you sign up for our Patreon during the con, come to the booth and you can get a free bonus sticker! (If you’re already a backer and come say hi, you can grab a sticker too. 😀 )

We’re really excited to be kicking off our 2024 convention schedule by attending this awesome event, and we hope to see you there! There’s gonna be a lot of other awesome vendors there, too. I hope I’ll have time to meet some of them!