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New November Releases from Duck Prints Press!

2025-11-30T16:03:23Z

While our main November activity has been running the crowdfunding Kickstarter to fund our anthology Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, that doesn’t mean we’ve neglected our regular short story and art releases direct to backers of our Patreon! Read on to learn about our five new short stories, one new art piece, and the Patreon panel taking place later today!

First – Patreon backers at the $10/month and $25/month levels who also back the crowdfunding campaign for Monsterotica will get a bonus piece of merchandise as our THANK YOU for their exceptional support. For this campaign, we’re offering BACKERS CHOICE! We’ve chosen the art – the monstery toothy dux sticker created by Alessa Riel for the Monsterotica campaign – and backers will get their pick of an acrylic pin with an iridescent holo effect, a key chain with a red rainbow holo effect, or a magnet with a hologram effect!

Back our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level AND support our campaign to fund Monsterotica and claim your monstery dux merch bonus!

New Explicit Imprint Stories:

Can’t Let Go by Dei Walker

modern with magic, f/f, underwater sex, tentacles

Excerpt:
The thrill of risk slides through her, warming her from the inside out. She curls her toes inside her flippers and takes another deep breath of cool, dry canned air.

The soft corals along the wall are pretty enough; one has a porcelain crab tucked into its fronds, and another the tiny shape of a pygmy seahorse, orange-pink with bumps to match its hiding place. There are wonders aplenty; she allows herself to snap a picture of the seahorse, then a second from a slightly different angle, as insurance.

When she lifts her head to continue swimming, the faint glow has moved farther away.

A cloud of bioluminescence moving like that? Her heart rate kicks up, interest piqued. Hope spreads in her chest. Something this unusual might be just what she needs.

Available to $25/month Patreon backers

We the Hunters by Lyonel Loy

fantasy, m/m, monster x monster, vers characters

Excerpt:

He sees the flash of fiery gold at the far end of the lake, where the water is dark with the shadows of kelp forests. Shimmering fins flicker amidst the swaying fronds, carefree and careless and bold.

What need has a merman for wariness?

King of the lake’s deep waters, sharp-toothed and sharp-clawed and strong. Even the gryphon, with his lion’s strength and eagle’s talons, ought to be wary, but the merman is far too enticing a prize.

Available to $7/month Patreon backers and higher

New General Imprint Stories:

My (24M) Cousin (23M) Fell in Love with One of Those Forest Mimics (???M?) and I Don’t Know What to Do by Nicola Kapron

modern, m/m, outsider point of view, formatted like a reddit post

Excerpt:

r/relationship_advice
u/ThrowawayOutOfTheWoods

You know those scary stories people tell around campfires and on dramatic horror vlogs about mysterious not-quite-human figures that slip into hiking groups and do all sorts of creepy stuff? Yeah. It’s one of those. He’s one of those? It’s hard to tell.

Available to all Patreon backers

Memory Scars by Adele Gardner

sci fi, established f/f, androids and free will

Excerpt:

Construction. Repair. Rebuild. Each fills me with a creeping dread, something I can’t name because I’m not allowed any words for it.

Each time I wonder: Am I the same person I was before whatever disaster shut me down?

Available to $5/month Patreon backers and higher

One Moon at a Time by R. L. Houck

modern supernatural setting, found family, lesbian main character, weres and creature shiftersExcerpt:
“Nice night, huh?” Lily leaned back on her palms and slanted her eyes to the side.

“I’ll call it a nice night if we make it to 6 a.m. without you turning wolf and trying to rip out my throat.”

Sagging in place, Lily scrubbed her palms down her thighs. At the end of the pass, she cupped her knees, staring at her abraded knuckles. “Do you think I’ll turn?”

Available to $10/month Patreon backers and higher

Patreon Reward Art:

“Devour” by Aaron Kotze

This is a trim of a larger artwork. Aaron chose not to share the inspiration behind this piece.

Available to $5/month Patreon backers and higher

and lastly, this month's Patreon panel is later today! The topic...

Description: Authoritarian regimes throughout history have sought to eliminate dissent in part by eliminating non-conformist art, while subverting what art they permit to be created to serve their dominant narratives. As much of the world makes a turn toward hard-right fascistic authoritarianism, many creators grapple with the stress, fear, and danger of living and creating despite threats to their livelihoods and very lives. In this panel, we’ll have a candid discussion of how others have faced these threats in the past and how we are doing so in our day-to-day lives. We will discuss both the risks and necessity of continuing to make art by and about people – queer, POC, gender-diverse, disabled, neurodiverse, etc. – whose voices authoritarian governments seek to suppress.

Date: Sunday, November 30
Time: 2 p.m. Eastern time

Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon! Support indie publishing all year long and get lots of queer stories and art in return!

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September Patreon Releases!

2025-09-29T16:44:52Z

There are only TWO DAYS left in our September Patron drive. Every single person backing our Patreon on September 30th – current backers and new! – will receive a merchandise freebie worth up to $5, and can claim merch from past crowdfunding campaigns that’s Patreon-exclusive! You can learn more about the many benefits of backing the Duck Prints Press Patreon (coupons! behind-the-scenes access! stories! art! panels! freebies!) by visiting our Patreon page – and you can see what awesome things Patrons got during September by reading this post!

This September, we’ve released 4 general imprint short stories, 1 explicit imprint short story, an all-new original artwork, and a recording of the September Patreon panel! Learn more…

Title: Making Up Time
Author: Adele Gardner

sci fi, time travel, f/f

Excerpt: “Captain, we’ve overshot the mark!” I sang out with glee.

“Great job, Sonja! Precise as always!” Chipper Captain Ruiz, always keeping the praise flowing. One of the many reasons I liked her.

We watched the clock together. Well, pretty much everyone did. It was still neat to see those hands flying backward, blurring past the speed of thought. The only way they could be stopped now was via the automatic timer, which had to be programmed before we engaged the drive. Otherwise, the slingshot effect would catapult us backward into the beginning of time.

Available to backers at level $7/month and up!

Title: The Purpose of Devils
Author: Nicola Kapron

fantasy, gods and angels, gender-related themes

Excerpt:

Like all angels, Neliel had been created for a purpose. In his case, that purpose was maintenance. The heavens did not decay on a timescale that mortals could comprehend, but they decayed nonetheless. Celestial metals rusted. Light faded. Even stone gradually wore away. Nothing lasted forever in the same condition it had always been in. Sooner or later, everything changed.

Nel had not expected his creators to ever change.

He had been wrong.

Available to backers at level $10/month and up!

Title: Winter’s Sweetness
Author: Lyonel Loy

fantasy, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, f/m/m, alpha/alpha/omega, third story set in the Kings ‘Verse

Excerpt:

“My darlings,” Guenloie murmurs. “Ah, my darlings! You cannot know how much I have longed to have you both in my arms again. Caith and Dinaden have missed you dearly as well: they have ordered that I kiss and cosset you in their absences. Come! I have been too long deprived; I must do so now.”

She presses kisses upon them, the sweetest of kisses: Mallas’s cheek and Arle’s lips and then the other way; they mewl and shudder and cling to her and each other, and press kisses upon her too. Her strong, linen-clad arms envelop them—she is dressed still, and Mallas is already bare and trembling against her powerful body.

Available to backers at level $5/month and up!

Title: Old Books, New Friends
Author: Genevieve Maxwell

fantasy, spells and curses, non-binary character, bonus 23rd story for our anthology Scholarly Pursuits

Excerpt:

Gilly strode toward the village, breathing in the crisp air. The morning was full of the sounds of the living creatures in the woods around her. She didn’t live far outside the village, but it would still take a bit before she arrived and was surrounded by the more human clamor of activity. She tried to cherish these moments of in-between, but they often made her bitter. She didn’t want to be here, on this path, walking into the same village she’d been visiting for decades in the vain hope that today she’d discover the solutions she craved and finally be able to leave this place.

Available to backers at all backing levels!

Title: a name to call
Author: Rascal Hartley

fantasy, genderfluid main character, family and found family themes

Excerpt:

“Does the river really love me?”

“Of course it does.” Balter’s nose crinkles, as it always does when the Little Girl does something he finds amusing.

She’s splashing in the water as they walk, over mossy, smooth stones that never quite send her stumbling. Minnows dash along her ankles.

“Does the river really love you?”

Available only to backers at the $25/month level!

Title: Bar on the outskirts
Artist: MizuShiba

This is a trim of a larger artwork.

MizuShiba had this to say about this artwork: The initial idea was born out of the thought that an orc biker gang in a modern fantasy setting would ride mythical fantasy creatures, rather than ordinary bikes. Then, I thought of an elf from an old-world traditional family who would date an orc like that. First, as a joke or a jab at his family’s stiff values. Until he accidentally catches real feelings, woops.

Available to backers at level $5/month and up!

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...and, of course, the panel...

September Panel Topic: Navigating Author-Editor Relationships

Description: Whether you’re writing fanfiction for fun, essays for school, projects aimed at publication, copy for a work project, or something else, odds are that, sooner or later, you’ll have to work with an editor, beta, or someone else who has been brought in specifically to suggest places you might want to change your writing. Working with an editor can be challenging, especially if one isn’t used to critique. On the flip side, being an editor working with an author requires, on top of possessing the necessary knowledge of spelling, punctuation, and grammar, that the editor learn interpersonal skills to help them work effectively with the author(s) they are providing editing support for. In this panel, we will discuss how to navigate relationships between authors and editors from both points of view, including: what discussions authors and editors should engage in before editing begins, reaching compromises over differences of opinions, when to fight and when to let it go, the importance of a balance between authorial voice and proper SPAG, and more!

Panelists: Alex Bauer, E. Conway, Max Jason Peterson, and Rachael L. Young

Panels are available to backers at level $7/month and up!

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