Pride Story Bundles to Benefit Charity

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, EVERYONE! We are thrilled to announce our second-annual Pride Bundles for Charity with two all-new short story bundles – 30 stories total! – that we are selling at a discount to raise money for our chosen queer charity!

Last year, our debut Pride bundles raised almost $350 for queer charities. This year, we’re back with a new General Imprint Bundle and a new Explicit Imprint Bundle, each discounted 20% from their list prices (and each including multiple stories that aren’t for sale and are usually only available to our backers on Patreon) and with 20% of the net profit going to Rainbow Railroad.

How This Works

• you buy one or both bundles between now and July 8th, 2024.
• we tally up all the proceeds earned and do some math-e-magic to figure out how much we’re donating!
• before the end of July, we donate the raised money to Rainbow Railroad, we post the proof we’ve done so.
• you get fantastic stories!
• we all get that happy, glowy feeling of knowing that money has been well-spent on fantastic causes!

About the Press

Duck Prints Press is a queer-owned indie press, founded to publish original works by fancreators. We’ve been in operation for over 3 years, and in that time we’ve worked with well over 150 creators to publish six anthologies and almost 100 other stories, from shorts to novels, and we’ve got more on the works (our next anthology, our first erotica collection, will be crowdfunding within the next month!). The vast majority of our creators and their creations are queer/LGTBQIA+ (maybe even all, but we don’t out anyone and we don’t ask demography because, frankly, it’s none of our business).

25 of our authors have chosen to include their short stories in one or both of these short story bundles, and all our short story authors nominated potential charities and voted to select Rainbow Railroad as the beneficiary for our 2024 Pride Bundles.

About Rainbow Railroad

In countries around the world, LGBTQI+ people face violence and oppression simply because of who they love or who they are. Rainbow Railroad helps them get to safety! Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps at-risk LGBTQI+ people get to safety worldwide. Based in the United States and Canada, they’re an organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm. 

Note: This charity isnot affiliated with the Press, do not know we’re doing this fundraiser, have not endorsed this in anyway and are, as such, utterly uninvolved in this beyond being the beneficiaries of our efforts! Text is from the Rainbow Railroad website.

About the Bundles

We are offering two bundles, one with 18 short stories published under our General Imprint, the other containing 12 stories published under our Explicit Imprint. The shop listings include details about and excerpts from all the stories. Here’s the gist…

Titles in the General Imprint Charity Bundle:

• The Princess and the Maze by A. L. Heard
• Of Loops and Weaves by Catherine E. Green
• Glass Slipper: A Dance by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec
• Songs, Suppers, and Stories by D. V. Morse
• Waiting for the Tide to Turn by Genevieve Maxwell
• Chinaski’s Dirty Work by J. D. Harlock
• Foundations by Johnathan Stern
• Seal Island by K. B. Vimes
• Into the Wyvern’s Lair by Mikki Madison
• Sarisa by N. C. Farrell
• Whispers of Atlantis: A Tale of Discovery and Belonging by Neo Scarlett
• Be Not Afraid by Nicola Kapron
• Awkward and Oblivious by R. L. Houck
• Washer Wars: A Laundromat Feud by Samantha M. Piper
• The Wayward Timekeeper by Terra P. Waters
• if it’s meant to be by Tris Lawrence
• Meet C(omm)ute by Violet J. Hayes
• Chrysopoeia by Zel Howland

18 stories. 254 pages. 82,462 words of fiction!

Price: $22.50

Approximately 20% of the list price of this bundle will go to Rainbow Railroad.

Titles in the Explicit Imprint Charity Bundle:

• Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters by A. L. Heard
• A night such as this by April Steenburgh
• Theirs All Along by boneturtle
• Orchidelirium by Dei Walker
• Old Kings and New by Lyonel Loy
• Weather the Storm by Lyn Weaver
• Pretty 7 Days a Week by R. L. Houck
• Adventures of the Scarlet Sentry: After Dark by Samantha M. Piper
• Worlds Apart (but Still Close) by Sanne Burg
• Taken at Sea by Shea Sullivan
• Warm Anything You Want by Tris Lawrence
• LA Photographs Itself by YF Ollwell

12 stories. 198 pages. 69,550 words.

Price: $21.50

Approximately 20% of the list price of this bundle will go to Rainbow Railroad.

Come get some great stories, support a queer-owned business this Pride, and benefit two fantastic causes. Win-win-win situations don’t get much better than this!

These bundles will only be available for one month, so don’t miss out. Visit our webstore between now and July 8th and get yours!