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A graphic with a photograph of a forested island rising from the sea as the background. Top text reads, "Get to Know The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. In the center is a cover, art showing two men in a loose embrace, the taller with dark hair and dark skin holding the head of the shorter, who is paler and blond. they are surrounded by surging waves. This cover has arrows leading away from it, pointing at text. There are six arrows, and six texts. The text reads: werewolves and selkies and magic (oh my!); strangers to idiots in love to ???????; second chances; m/m grumpy x grumpy; fantasy modern mystery genre mash-up; and hopeful ending. Bottom text reads: pre-orders close at midnight April 15th 2025.

We’re in the home stretch of our pre-order campaign for The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers! We’ve hit our base goal (the absolute minimum we need to get this project off the ground) and we’re almost 2/3rds of the way to raising enough to cover all the associated publishing expenses! Pre-orders will close at midnight, April 14th, in the last time zone in the world – which is to say, 8 a.m. Eastern time on the morning of the 15th! We’d love your help spreading the word for this last push.

What’s The Salt in the Sea about? Well…

A downtrodden ex-soldier.

After leaving the military, werewolf Victor is shunned in his civilian life. Money is tight, so when an ex-comrade offers him an easy job—getting a package from an island—he jumps at the chance.

A lost inn-owner.

When Selkie Thoma opens the door to a knocking patron, he wants to close it again immediately. Standing before him is Victor, his one-night stand from three years ago. The last thing Thoma wants is to have to explain why he left that night.

As Victor and Thoma cross paths unexpectedly, emotions flare anew. But Victor is only on the island for a week, and Thoma can’t face his past, the consequences of his decisions, or the resulting condemnation from his sea-going selkie family.

A dead body in a post office.

When a corpse is discovered, fingers throughout the community point at Victor. With time running out before justice is served, it’s on Thoma to find out the truth. Because on the island justice is deadly.

Visit our campaign page to learn more!

And don’t forget to back our Patreon!

A photograph of waves crashing against rocks, overlaid with text that reads: The island doesn't like visitors. Every time I ship over, it tries to dispel me, but in a battle of wills, I win. The salt in the sea by J. D. Rivers. Pre-orders close at 8 a.m. Eastern time April 15 2025.

“The island doesn’t like visitors. Every time I ship over, it tries to dispel me, but in a battle of wills, I win.”

We’ve been talking a lot about The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers as we wind down into the last 4 days of our pre-order campaign. Thoma and Victor, the m/m main characters, have been featured in quotes in and in the blurb. But an important, maybe the important secondary character? The island on which the story takes place! Concentrate enough memory and magic in a place, and even the very ground beneath one’s feet can take on a will of its own…

Blurb for The Salt in the Sea

A downtrodden ex-soldier.

After leaving the military, werewolf Victor is shunned in his civilian life. Money is tight, so when an ex-comrade offers him an easy job—getting a package from an island—he jumps at the chance.

A lost inn-owner.

When Selkie Thoma opens the door to a knocking patron, he wants to close it again immediately. Standing before him is Victor, his one-night stand from three years ago. The last thing Thoma wants is to have to explain why he left that night.

As Victor and Thoma cross paths unexpectedly, emotions flare anew. But Victor is only on the island for a week, and Thoma can’t face his past, the consequences of his decisions, or the resulting condemnation from his sea-going selkie family.

A dead body in a post office.

When a corpse is discovered, fingers throughout the community point at Victor. With time running out before justice is served, it’s on Thoma to find out the truth. Because on the island justice is deadly.

**Learn all about The Salt in the Sea on our campaign page!**

A graphic with text over a photograph of rolling waves and wave-frothed water. Text reads, Eyes dark as the night, hungry and powerful, stared him down. "I just want you." And while the music thundered on, Victor raised Thoma's chin and kissed him. Pre-order m/m fantasy novella THE SALT IN THE SEA by J. D. Rivers TODAY!

There are under six days left to pre-order The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers! We’re thrilled to share that we’ve hit our baseline goal for this campaign! We’re still a long way from hitting our primary goal of $2,200, which includes enough to cover all the expenses that Duck Prints Press will incur publishing The Salt in the Sea, but hitting our baseline means we’ll be able to move forward with publication! Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word and who has backed so far. Today, we share a teaser from a pivotal moment for our two lead characters…

Eyes dark as the night, hungry and powerful, stared him down.

“I just want you.”

And while the music thundered on, Victor raised Thoma’s chin and kissed him.

**Learn more about The Salt in the Sea today, before time runs out!**

We are entering the second – and final – week of our pre-order crowdfunding campaign to pay for the publishing of The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers – and we’re 90% of the way to our baseline goal, and almost 40% of the way to our main goal!

Interested in the book but on the fence? Then allow us to wet your appetite: you can now read the first chapter of The Salt in the Sea completely free! Download the chapter 1 sample here!

Visit our campaign page to read the blurb, meet the author, check out the merchandise, and more!

A graphic over a washed-out photograph of an exapnsive sky, a sea, and two forested islands. Text at the top reads "Pre-order options for The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers." Below this, center, is a book cover depicting two men, one blonde and fair, the other black-haired with medium tone skin, in a loose, tender embrace, one kissing the other's forehead, before a wave-like background with a blood-red sun and dark sky behind them. This is labeled "The Salt in the Sea E-book and trade paperback." Beside it, there's a picture of a small candle in a tin labeled "seaside candle," the same artwork but with a large area of more waves beside the pair labeled "art print of the front cover," and the artwork again but made narrow and focused on the men, labeled "Thoma & Victor bookmark." In the lower part of the graphic is a header that reads "Pre-Order Bundles," with two listed: trade paperback + e-book bundle, accompanied by the cover art twice more (once with a book download symbol), and book _ merchandise bundle, which shows all the items already described grouped together in one big bundle.

**The pre-order campaign for our next novella, The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers, are open NOW through 8 a.m. Eastern time on April 15th!**

A downtrodden ex-soldier.

After leaving the military, werewolf Victor is shunned in his civilian life. Money is tight, so when an ex-comrade offers him an easy job—getting a package from an island—he jumps at the chance.

A lost inn-owner.

When Selkie Thoma opens the door to a knocking patron, he wants to close it again immediately. Standing before him is Victor, his one-night stand from three years ago. The last thing Thoma wants is to have to explain why he left that night.

As Victor and Thoma cross paths unexpectedly, emotions flare anew. But Victor is only on the island for a week, and Thoma can’t face his past, the consequences of his decisions, or the resulting condemnation from his sea-going selkie family.

A dead body in a post office.

When a corpse is discovered, fingers throughout the community point at Victor. With time running out before justice is served, it’s on Thoma to find out the truth. Because on the island justice is deadly.

Learn more about this awesome m/m fantasy mystery novella and get your copy today!

The Kickstarter campaign to fund the publishing of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” ends at 1:15 p.m. Eastern time on December 5th 2024!

That means, as I’m posting this, you only have 27 hours left, and the minutes are ticking by. We’re funded, but we’d love your help to hit a stretch goal and to knock our initial goal out of the park. It’s not your last chance to get this book – we’ll publish it for all after we finish campaign fulfillment, and late pledges are enabled for just the print book and e-book – but you’ll get it well ahead of anyone else, and it may be the only chance to get our awesome merchandise, depending how many extras we end up post-fulfillment!

Wondering what it’s all about? Well…

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover! A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks, is just that. 38 creators have contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from Pride and Prejudice’s characters and story to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works. For this collection, we encouraged our creators to focus on Sapphic/wlw relationships and/or transgender and genderqueer interpretations for their inspiration, though those are definitely not the only types of queer we’ve fit into this diverse collection.

Want to know more? We’ve done 8 posts with teasers from all of our authors and artists!

Teaser Post 1: Authors A. D. Williams, E. V. Dean, and Genevieve Maxwell; Artists Max Jason Peterson and Jagoda Zirebiec
Teaser Post 2: Authors Rascal Hartley, Vee Sloane, and A. L. Heard; Artists Saro/Legendaerie and Cris Alborja
Teaser Post 3: Authors Taliesin Owens and Linnea Peterson; Artists Aceriee (our cover artist!) and Tomowowo
Teaser Post 4: Authors Mikki Madison, Lucy K. R., and Shea Sullivan; Artists Zel Howland and Elizabeth Rose.
Teaser Post 5: Authors Téa Belog, nottesilhouette, and Em Rowntree; Artists Flore Picard and mcdad arts
Teaser Post 6: Authors Lyonel Loy, Sage Mooreland, and ilgaksu; Artists A. A. Weston and Amalia Zeichnerin.
Teaser Post 7: Authors Dei Walker and Terra P. Waters; Artists radicalhoodie, May Barros, and J. Radin.
Teaser Post 8: Authors J. D. Harlock and Xianyu Zhou; Artists Xanthe P. Russell and Kendall Pletcher.

So help an indie press get their next anthology off the ground, and get lots of great works of fiction and art! Win-win! Become a backer today!

The campaign to crowdfund A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is on the verge of entering its final 48 hours on Kickstarter! We’re officially funded, and hoping to make our first stretch goal – $3,500 to go, so far but not out of reach! – and so here’s our final teaser post to whet your appetite for this collection. I’ll do one more post tomorrow that links to all eight posts of teasers (21 stories! 17 art pieces! and the merchandise!) so be on the lookout.

There are only two artists and two authors remain to introduce to y’all. You can read those updates here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duckprintspress/a-truth-universally-acknowledged-a-queer-fanworks-anthology/

Thrilling news everyone! This morning, within the last hour, the campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” crossed our base funding goal!! This is wonderful news, and guarantees that Duck Prints Press will be able to publish this awesome collection of artwork and stories, and be able to make the related merchandise too. We’ve got fund goals to get our backers more stuff (at no additional cost) and to give our contributors raises, so now – we’ve hit the minimum, and the sky’s the limit!

Thank you to everyone who has helped spread the word about this project. We couldn’t have done it without you.

There are only three days left before the campaign ends, and only a few teasers at well! Today, we’ve got three artists and two authors for you! Check out today's update and teasers here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duckprintspress/a-truth-universally-acknowledged-a-queer-fanworks-anthology/posts/4264688

The busiest shopping weekend of the year is upon us, and I’m delighted to share (though sorry for adding yet more advertising to your life) that Duck Prints Press is running two big sales this weekend!

Kickstarter Flash Bundle

The Kickstarter campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is nearly 85% funded with 6 days left before the end. We’ve still got a bit to go to hit our base goal, though, and we’d love to hit some of our awesome stretch goals to get backers more rewards (without them having to spend a penny more!) and to get our contributors more pay!

To help us reach this goal, we’re offering a bonus flash reward level for new backers and current backers who’d like to upgrade: get A Truth Universally Acknowledged, all our campaign merch, AND e-book and print copies of all seven of our past anthologies, all for one massively discounted price of $290 – a savings of almost $100 over the list prices for these items! (Small print but not small: This level is US-only, and the $290 doesn’t include shipping.)

A graphic that shows the A Truth Universally Acknowledged cover, a sticker of a peacock, a floral bookmark, a postcard with a peacock and two peahens on it, a pen surrounded by a banner, three peacock notecards, and a large stylized peacock. Also includes the covers of 7 other books. Text reads "Level !!" and "Book Lover's Bundle"

This is the best price we’ve ever offered for our anthologies! Wondering what Duck Prints Press is all about? This is your moment! Amazing books at an amazing price – now through Monday December 2nd!

Small Business Saturday Coupon

Saturday November 30th is Small Business Saturday, the day to show small and local business you appreciate them – and for us to show we appreciate you by offering great deals! Duck Prints Press has a whole lot of new things now available for the occasion, and we’re running our best sale of the year – 20% your entire (pre-shipping) purchase!
A graphic on a blue background. Text reads "Celebrate Small Business Saturday with Duck Prints Press! Nov. 29th - Dec 2nd, use the coupon code duckysbs01 for 20% off from our store."

Use coupon code duckysbs01 to save 20% off your purchase, and check out our new shop listings!

Did you know? People who back our Patreon can get discounts at our shop year-round! $3/month and $5/month backers get a permanent 10% off coupon, backers at the $7/month and $10/month level get 20% off, and backers at the $25/month level get a whopping 30% off purchases from our webstore – the lowest price available – the whole year!

Join Duck Prints Press in shopping small this weekend – by backing our Kickstarter, and/or by visiting our store! And we hope you have a wonderful holiday season.

Coupon small print: Coupon usage and terms apply. Offer valid only on online purchases made between Friday November 29 and Monday December 2. Can be redeemed on US and international orders. Shipping & handling and sales tax do not qualify for discounts. This offer cannot be redeemed for cash or gift cards, cannot be applied to past purchases, and can only be used once per purchaser. May not be combined with other coupons, discounts, offers, or promotions. Void if altered, copied, transferred, auctioned, or sold. Valid for use purchasing in-stock items only. No rain checks issued. Other restrictions may apply. Cash value 1/10 cent USD.

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” is 80% funded! With 8 days to go! We’re really on a roll, and we’d love to keep that going to reach our goal early and maybe get to a stretch goal or two. Stretch goals are great for us, because they primarily are designed to enable us to raise the pay of our contributors!

In case you were wondering, there’ll be five more of these teaser posts after this one – so we’re almost halfway through the teasers. A lot of contributors means a lot of posts! You can read today's post here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duckprintspress/a-truth-universally-acknowledged-a-queer-fanworks-anthology/posts/4261370

Hello hello! Happy Monday! The campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” has crossed 70%, and our ~~power level~~ funding level is over $9,000! Today, join us to enjoy three more story excerpts and two more trimmed art teasers! Check out today's glimpses within the covers by visiting our latest campaign update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duckprintspress/a-truth-universally-acknowledged-a-queer-fanworks-anthology/posts/4260376

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is now live on Kickstarter – and already selected by them as a project they love!

A graphic on a pink background. It shows two identical book covers for "A Truth Universally Acknowledged," one with a download arrow over it, and it also shows: an enamel pin design of a fountain pen and text reading "love ardent love"; three peacock images with rainbow in different parts of the image; a bookmark image with many flowers, an art print of the full cover art sans text, a small peacock sticker, and artwork of a peacock in a fan shape.

We’ll be posting more information about the campaign and the contributing creators throughout the next couple weeks, so make sure to give us a follow on social media.

This campaign ends on December 5th 2024 – don’t miss your chance to get all this awesome stuff! Become a backer today!

It’s also a great time to become a Patreon backer – and you’ll get a free bonus piece of merch if you back both the “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” campaign and are a $10/month or $25/month level supporter!

The cover of the book "A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice.'" The artwork depicts two peahens limned in pink standing beside each other; the blue feathers of a peacock trail over the bottom half of the image. The background is a repeating motif in a gradient from green to pink.

HAPPY COVER REVEAL DAY! Duck Prints Press’s next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, will be crowdfunding starting November 20th, 2024. We’ve been hard at work on this collection for a loooong time and we are thrilled to finally be making it available for y’all. The gorgeous cover art, made by artist Aceriee, was inspired by the classic 1898 “peacock edition of Pride and Prejudice – but of course, we made it queerer. The spectacular full cover is wrap around.
Artwork of a full wrap-around cover. It depicts a peacock standing proud, tail not spread, standing on the right. On the left, two peahens limned in pink standing beside each other; the blue feathers of the peacock;'s tail trail over the bottom half of the image. The background is a repeating motif in a gradient from green to pink.

Artwork of a full wrap-around cover. It depicts a peacock standing proud, tail not spread, standing on the right. On the left, two peahens limned in pink standing beside each other; the blue feathers of the peacock;'s tail trail over the bottom half of the image. The background is a repeating motif in a gradient from green to pink.

(spoilers: this art will be offered a postcard as one of the Kickstarter campaign backer rewards!)

This awesome book features 21 stories each up to 5,000 words long and 20 full-page color artworks. Our campaign features six merch items, too, with peacocks standing proud on much of the art.

Want to be sure you don’t miss the campaign? Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page now!

Become a Patreon backer to get behind-the-scenes access to sneak peeks and more!

A graphic over a background of flames. A quote on the graphic reads, "Adrian pushed through the crowd, jaw clenched so tightly it ached. People were fleeing the collapsing buildings. the lamprey-sinkhole opened again, the remains of its meal nowhere to be seen. An explosion went off a few blocks away. Bright flames licked up into the sky. Adrian ran toward the light. He was the only one who did."

**We are thrilled to share that we’ve met our minimum funding goal to cover the publishing of Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron!**

Our first stretch goal, which will reward all our backers with a bonus prequel story about Kade Mauzy (already written and edited and ready to go!) is just over $500 away. Can we hit it? That depends on you! We’d love help signal boosting this post or any other post about the campaign that suits your fancy – word-of-mouth is how our campaigns succeed.

What’s it about? Well, the above graphic gives some basics, but for more…

Secret Gates have protected mankind from the unknown chaos beyond the edges of reality for millennia, and now, all that stands between everything humanity knows and the horrors outside it are a depressed trans man, his exhausted partner, and a creature ill-suited to the world after being pulled from his own horrific reality. This is Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, an urban fantasy where only fragile Gates protect all we know from eldritch, incomprehensible magic. This is the world that Adrian Somer is determined to save.

Learn all about the book and the merch we’re offering by visiting the campaign page!

Pre-orders close at midnight on October 25th 2024. Unable to back the campaign before pre-orders close? Don’t worry! Scrap Metal Angel will be available for sale to the general public starting during the winter of 2024/25, from our website, major online retailers, libraries, and many other places where books are sold!

We have entered the final 48 hours of our crowdfunding campaign for the novella Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, and at the time of posting this we are almost 97% funded – SO CLOSE to our goal, less than $100 away!

Reality, tiny and fragile, is cut off from the sea of chaos and nightmares that surrounds it by seven Gates. One of them is open—and has been since the Stone Age. Through that opening, strange creatures and energies slip through. Some are malevolent. None are harmless. And all of them must be kept a secret.

Every hidden magical world needs a shadowy clean-up crew. Adrian Somer is a Gatekeeper, sworn to protect the cosmic Gates, to defend reality from the unknown entities that exist beyond them, and to help those whose lives are affected by magic.

When a grieving sorceress starts punching holes in reality to try and resurrect her murdered fiancé, Adrian must turn to a ghost from his past in order to save the city, and perhaps the world—even if that means digging up someone he thought was safely buried: the twin brother he killed eight years ago.

What can you order?

Scrap Metal Angel E-Book
Scrap Metal Angel Trade Paperback
Merch: Adrian and Scrap Metal Angel‘s eponymous angel, Whistler, Two-Sided Bookmark
Merch: The Second Gate and Shion Matreva (the “grieving sorceress” mentioned in the blurb!) Two Postcard Set
Merch: Gatekeeper Adrian and Gatekeeper Kade Poster Print
Merch: Rainbow Feather Magnet (Patreon Exclusive! For $10/month and $25/month Patrons who back this campaign)

Or, Get a Bundle!

Scrap Metal Angel E-Book + Trade Paperback Bundle
Scrap Metal Angel E-Book + Trade Paperback + All Merch Bundle

We will be closing pre-orders at midnight in the last time zone on October 25th (that’s 8 a.m. Eastern time on October 26th, by the way) – so make sure you get your order in before then. Visit the campaign NOW for further details, excerpts, applicable tags and trigger warnings, and more!

We hope you’ll become a backer and join us in making this project a success. Even if you’re not a backer, signal boosts are very appreciated.

Graphic over a background of a washed out citystreet at night. Text reads, "God, I'm tired. Nothing else better happen tonight." The second the words were out of Kade's mouth, the whole city screamed.

Secret Gates have protected mankind from the unknown chaos beyond the edges of reality for millennia, and now, all that stands between everything humanity knows and the horrors outside it are a depressed trans man named Adrian, his exhausted partner Kade, and a creature ill-suited to the world after being pulled from his own horrific reality whose name is unpronounceable in any language known to man. This is Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, an urban fantasy where only fragile Gates protect all we know from eldritch, incomprehensible magic. This is the world that Adrian Somer is determined to save.

There are only a few days left in our crowdfunding campaign to fund the publishing of Scrap Metal Angel, and we’re still several hundred dollars from our goal. If you haven’t checked out what we’re offering yet, now is a great time to do so by visiting our campaign page.

Checked it out, but were on the fence about backing? Well…

We’re thrilled to share that now, you can preview Scrap Metal Angel before backing! The first chapter is now available as a free pdf download to help whet your appetite for this awesome story. Download it now!

Campaign ends at midnight on October 25th!

A graphic of a quote over a dark background with bright bokeh spots. The quote reads "Even a Gatekeeper couldn't bring back the dead, but people still blamed them when they failed to." Beside this is the cover of a book; the book is "Scrap Metal Angel" by Nicola Kapron.

Even a Gatekeeper couldn’t bring back the dead, but people still blamed them when they failed it. So opens Nicola Kapron’s novella Scrap Metal Angel, set in a fantastical modern-esque world where secret magics haunt the city and trans Gatekeeper Adrian Somer and his partner Kade Mauzy work to minimize the harm and protect the regular people from the horrors that lie beyond reality.

Unfortunately, when a desperate woman seeks to crack open the Second Gate – the Gate of death – in an attempt to resurrect her dead fiance, she unleashes more than she could ever have imagined – and forces Adrian to learn more about death than he ever wanted to know.

Our crowdfunding campaign to fund publication of Scrap Metal Angel has less than a week left, and we’re still a bit shy of our goal! You can learn all about the book, the author, and the campaign by visiting the campaign page on duckprintspress.com!

And don’t forget to signal boost to help spread the word about this very awesome (and modestly queer!) book!

Crowdfunding ends October 25, 2024.

A graphic on a dark background with bright bokeh spots. At the center of the graphic is a book cover. A photomanipulation book cover. The title is Scrap Metal Angel, and the author is Nicola Kapron. The image shows a blurred out street. In the foreground, a person stands, shown from the shoulder down, their legs spread. They are wearing a trench coat, trousers, and shows. Their shoes are right at the edge of a large puddle that shows their reflection. The reflection is grayscale, and adds industrial-looking wings that are not visible outside the reflection. Around this cover, on the graphic, is text that reads: Pre-Order "Scrap Metal Angel" by Nicola Kapron!! Pre-orders close October 25!" Around the book cover, arrows point to more text which reads: Urban Fantasy; Eldritch Beings Beyond Human Comprehension; What Even Is Death???; Second Chances; Trans Male Main Character; Secret Societies; Sibling Feels; and Magic Gone Wrong.

Secret Gates have protected mankind from the unknown chaos beyond the edges of reality for millennia, and now, all that stands between everything humanity knows and the horrors outside it are a depressed trans man, his exhausted partner, and a creature ill-suited to the world after being pulled from his own horrific reality. This is Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron, an urban fantasy where only fragile Gates protect all we know from eldritch, incomprehensible magic. This is the world that Adrian Somer is determined to save.

In this dark but hopeful urban fantasy novella, masterful storyteller Nicola Kapron introduces us to a world that, on the surface, appears similar to our own, but underneath has complex magic, secret rituals, hidden organizations, and the constant shadow of danger from the mysteries that dwell beyond the six closed Gates. What lies outside the portals locked to protect humanity? Join Adrian Somer, Kade Mauzy, and the other characters in Scrap Metal Angel to find out…

Tags!

Genre: Fantasy with Technology
Rating: Mature
Trigger Warnings: body horror (graphic descriptions), death of a parent (past), death of a sibling (past), death of a spouse (past), gore (graphic descriptions), misgendering, minor character death, violence (graphic descriptions)
Relationships: friends, siblings, twins
Character Features: bipoc, magic use, murderer, non-human character, secret identity, sentient construct, tattoos, trans man
Other Tags: angst, be gay solve crimes, dimension jumping, magical mishaps, murder, past tense, resurrection, second chances, third person limited (multiple) point of view
Length: 146 pages/42,878 words

Our crowdfunding campaign launched on duckprintspress.com yesterday (Oct 10th!) and we’re currently 37% funded. The campaign ends October 25th.

Love books with queer characters that aren’t about queerness? Love gritty modern-world-esque urban fantasy? Love books that raise questions about the nature of reality, life, and death? **Then check out Scrap Metal Angel, and become a backer to help us bring the awesome novella to print!**

A graphic entitled "Pre-Order "Scrap Metal Angel" by Nicola Kapron" over a dark background with brighter spots of yellow, orange, and red bokeh. Beneath the header, in the center, is a book cover entitled "Scrap Metal Angel" showing a man in a trenchcoat standing on a blurred city street, his reflection in a puddle black-and-white and showing him with mechanical angel wings. Below the cover, text reads, "Scrap Metal Angel E-Book and Trade Paperback." On the left, there's artwork labeled 11" by 17" poster, depicting a white man in a suit standing and a dark-skinned woman with white hair, more casually dressed, kneeling beside him. Below that a two-sided bookmark is shown, both sides presented, one with the suited man, the other with a man with a mechanical clawed hand and a long, segmented/mechanical tail. To the right of the cover it says "2 Postcards." One shows a stylized ribcage formed into a door, with a tiny silhouette standing before it, and below that is a woman in a long trenchcoat, holding green fire in one hand and a book in the other. The lower part of the graphic is separated by a divider, and below that a header reads "Bundles" and it lists two bundles: "Trade Paperback + E-Book" shown with the book cover, and "Trade Paperback + E-Book + All Merchandise," which is accompanied by all the previously mentioned art, just smaller and grouped together.

**Pre-orders for Nicola Kapron’s novella Scrap Metal Angel are now live!**

Reality, tiny and fragile, is cut off from the sea of chaos and nightmares that surrounds it by seven Gates. One of them is open—and has been since the Stone Age. Through that opening, strange creatures and energies slip through. Some are malevolent. None are harmless. And all of them must be kept a secret.

Every hidden magical world needs a shadowy clean-up crew. Adrian Somer is a Gatekeeper, sworn to protect the cosmic Gates, to defend reality from the unknown entities that exist beyond them, and to help those whose lives are affected by magic.

When a grieving sorceress starts punching holes in reality to try and resurrect her murdered fiancé, Adrian must turn to a ghost from his past in order to save the city, and perhaps the world—even if that means digging up someone he thought was safely buried: the twin brother he killed eight years ago.

In this dark but hopeful urban fantasy novella, masterful storyteller Nicola Kapron introduces us to a world that, on the surface, appears similar to our own, but underneath has complex magic, secret rituals, hidden organizations, and the constant shadow of danger from the mysteries that dwell beyond the six closed Gates. What lies outside the portals locked to protect humanity? Join trans man Adrian Somer, his Cambodian immigrant colleague Kade Mauzy, and the other characters in Scrap Metal Angel to find out…

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Scrap Metal Angel E-Book
Scrap Metal Angel Trade Paperback
Merch: Adrian and Scrap Metal Angel‘s eponymous angel, Whistler, Two-Sided Bookmark
Merch: The Second Gate and Shion Matreva (the “grieving sorceress” mentioned in the blurb!) Two Postcard Set
Merch: Gatekeeper Adrian and Gatekeeper Kade Poster Print
Merch: Rainbow Feather Magnet (Patreon Exclusive! For $10/month and $25/month Patrons who back this campaign)

Or, Get a Bundle!

Scrap Metal Angel E-Book + Trade Paperback Bundle
Scrap Metal Angel E-Book + Trade Paperback + All Merch Bundle

Can’t get enough of Nicola Kapron’s stories? We can help with that! For this campaign, we’ve also debuted a short story bundle containing 7 short stories and 1 novelette by Kapron, including all the work she’s done with Duck Prints Press. AND, for the first time ever, the print version of the novelette In Good Company is also available on our website. Buying either of these also goes to help us reach our campaign goal!

This campaign is live from NOW until October 25th, 2024. Back us now, and help us reach our $2,800 goal to fund publishing this awesome story! Visit duckprintspress.com to learn all the details.

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Interested in the book but on the fence? Then allow us to wet your appetite: you can now read the first chapter of The Salt in the Sea completely free! Download the chapter 1 sample here!

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The Kickstarter campaign to fund the publishing of A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” ends at 1:15 p.m. Eastern time on December 5th 2024!

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We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is now live on Kickstarter – and already selected by them as a project they love!

This campaign ends on December 5th 2024 – don’t miss your chance to get all this awesome stuff! Become a backer today!

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We are thrilled to share that we’ve met our minimum funding goal to cover the publishing of Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron!

Learn all about the book and the merch we’re offering by visiting the campaign page!

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We will be closing pre-orders at midnight in the last time zone on October 25th (that’s 8 a.m. Eastern time on October 26th, by the way) – so make sure you get your order in before then. Visit the campaign NOW for further details, excerpts, applicable tags and trigger warnings, and more!

We’re thrilled to share that now, you can preview Scrap Metal Angel before backing! The first chapter is now available as a free pdf download to help whet your appetite for this awesome story. Download it now!

Our crowdfunding campaign to fund publication of Scrap Metal Angel has less than a week left, and we’re still a bit shy of our goal! You can learn all about the book, the author, and the campaign by visiting the campaign page on duckprintspress.com!

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Love books with queer characters that aren’t about queerness? Love gritty modern-world-esque urban fantasy? Love books that raise questions about the nature of reality, life, and death? Then check out Scrap Metal Angel, and become a backer to help us bring the awesome novella to print!

Pre-orders for Nicola Kapron’s novella Scrap Metal Angel are now live!

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**Learn all about The Salt in the Sea on our campaign page!**

**Learn more about The Salt in the Sea today, before time runs out!**

**The pre-order campaign for our next novella, The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers, are open NOW through 8 a.m. Eastern time on April 15th!**

**We are thrilled to share that we’ve met our minimum funding goal to cover the publishing of Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron!**

Love books with queer characters that aren’t about queerness? Love gritty modern-world-esque urban fantasy? Love books that raise questions about the nature of reality, life, and death? **Then check out Scrap Metal Angel, and become a backer to help us bring the awesome novella to print!**

**Pre-orders for Nicola Kapron’s novella Scrap Metal Angel are now live!**