Back Our Patreon, Help Pick Our Next Anthology Theme!

[duckprintspress]

Ever wondered how Duck Prints Press picks the themes for our anthologies?

Well, it goes like this:

1. Every month, we hold meetings on the Press’s private Discord (not to be confused with our public Discord) that anyone involved with the Press (staff, editors, authors, artists, backers on Patreon, and the like) can attend. During these meetings, we go, “hey, we’re thinking about themes for our next anthology! What would you like?” and I take notes of everything that folks suggest.
2. I take the compiled list of suggestions and share it with staff during our monthly staff meetings. We discuss the options in light of what we had in mind, add some ideas of our own, take away some other ideas, poke and prod at it, and ultimately end up with a short list (generally under ten) of the ideas we like best.
3. Staff (which includes editors, graphic designers, and others who are involved with higher-end tasks in Duck Prints Press, and who aren’t paid as staff but are for the work they do, and who help me make decisions) then votes on that list, and based on their votes we narrow things down to four to five choices.
4. And then the fun part starts…

Our backers on Patreon pick the final theme from a short list of options we’ve selected!

Right now, our Patrons are voting on the theme for our next Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology. This will be the fifth anthology in this series. Three are already out (featuring works inspired by Much Ado About Nothing, The Three Musketeers, and Pride and Prejudice) and we are in the home stretch on the fourth (featuring works inspired by folklore and fairy tales). The choices that Patrons are voting on for the next one are:

• Queer Fanworks Inspired by the Artwork of Vincent Van Gogh
• Queer Fanworks Inspired by the Story of Robin Hood
• Queer Fanworks Inspired by Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Queer Fanworks Inspired by The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer
• Queer Fanworks Inspired by King Arthur lore/Arthuriana

Ready to have your say? Become a backer of our Patreon at any level and place your vote! The voting ends on Monday, February 23rd.

Patrons get lots of other awesome benefits too – coupons for use in our webstore, access to our Discord, exclusive sneak peeks and previews, free stories… and that’s just for folks at the $3/month level! And support of our Patreon helps keep the lights on at Duck Prints Press, ensuring we have a steady and reliable income stream to plan around. To those who already support us, thank you!!, and if you’ve read this far, I truly hope you’ll consider it. For the price of a single cup of coffee each month, you can help an indie publisher keep amplifying queer stories and art.

Comments

[witchpoetdreamer]

I know I can only vote on Patreon (cannot afford it right now), but I would love it all except for Illiad/Odyssey, I'm a little bit burnt out on greek myths retellings XD