Duck Prints Press is thrilled to share that our debut explicit anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, is now available to the general public! This project successfully crowdfunded over the summer, and we fulfilled our Kickstarter campaign in September; now, the book and leftover merch can be yours, even if you missed the campaign!

For those who love their short stories spicy, we’re delighted to bring you Duck Prints Press’s debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. In this collection of 15 brand-new stories, we celebrate many flavors of polyamory. Orgy? Yes please! Ménage à trois? C’est magnifique! Foursomes and moresomes? Delighted to attend! We asked our contributors to blow our minds with their fun combinations, unusual settings, favorite trope usage, and (of course) super sexy smut—and they didn’t disappoint. From a vampire free-for-all to a heartfelt reunion, from surprise soulmates to enemies-to-lovers, this collection has polyamory in lots of scrumptious varieties that lovers of erotica won’t want to miss!

Now Available:

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica in e-book and trade paperback formats! (of course!)
polyamorous symbolism temporary tattoo sheet (our Kickstarter stretch goal merch!) with art by Jared Powell
poly pride dragon enamel key chain with art by reshipkmn
poly pride dux die-cut sticker with art by Alessa Riel
Many Hands bookmark with art by Aaron Kotze

A graphic over an orange gradient background, showing the Many Hands book and merchandise. The book cover shows three people of indeterminate gender and different skin tones in a tangled embrace. The bookmark shows a person lying in the center with hands reaching on-canvas to grasp them. The sticker shows three stylized dux in an embrace, with a gradient in the colors of the poly flag. Lastly, there is artwork for enamelware, one of a dragon in the old poly pride flag colors.

Get your book and merch TODAY!

This book will also be available through major retailers and libraries within the next couple weeks, so be on the lookout!

We have no leftovers of the other campaign merch – the salamander pin, cover art print, or lemon love candle.

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica has successfully funded, and we’ve hit our first stretch goal! Our total backing was for just over $12,000.

Our authors will get a raise, doubling the base pay, and backers at levels 3 and 4 (the two levels that automatically include merchandise) will get bonus merch – a sheet of temporary tattoos!

For people who backed, backer surveys have now gone out, and we’ll be pushing forward on getting everything ready to go to production and get fulfillment set!

For everyone else – wanted to back but missed your chance? It’s not too late! We’re trying out Kickstarter’s new late pledge options. Backer levels 1 (e-book only) and 2 (trade paperback + e-book) are available as options for people who missed the initial funding period!

Thanks so much to everyone who backed, helped us spread the word, or otherwise did anything to help bring this project from concept to reality. We couldn’t do it without every single one of you.

You can take a peek at the campaign here!

The crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica ends at 2 p.m. Eastern time on July 20th – or, about 27 hours from when I’m posting this! We’re less than $200 from our first stretch goal, which will enable us to double the amount we’re paying our author contributors, and will also get our backers at levels with merch (levels 3 and 4) to get an additional merch piece at no additional cost to them – a sheet of temporary tattoos by artist Jared Powell! Two of the designs that’ll be on this sheet are already completed – here’s a sneak peek.

The blue cama flowers in the top tattoo are commonly associated with polyamory in the language of flowers, and the bottom heart is an American traditional tattoo style take on a heart, with colors reminiscent of the polyamory pride flag. Each of these would be 1 in x 1 in (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm), and there’ll be a third design as well, making a 4 in x 4 in (10.25 cm x 10.25 cm) sheet.

We’d love to make these tattoo designs a reality, and pay our authors more – and you can help! The single biggest assistance anyone can do for a Kickstarter campaign (other than becoming a backer of course!) is to help spread the word. Share our posts on the social media platform(s) of your choice, so more people will know about our awesome project!

And of course, if you’re not a backer yet, there’s no time like the present to become one! Check out our Kickstarter campaign before time runs out!

There’s only four days left until the crowdfunding campaign for our debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica ends on July 20th, which makes it the perfect time to share our last three teasers! Our final teaser post includes teasers from the three authors we haven’t introduced yet: Alec J. Marsh, ilgaksu, and K. Martin!

Author: Alec J. Marsh
Title: A Communion and Other Rituals

Excerpt:

A stage ran along the back of the room, a hundred tiny disco balls following the line of the curtains. A woman spun on the pole, but the front row was a mix of genders. There was no sign of Sebastian, but in this lighting and with the amount of makeup everyone was wearing, he could have been anyone.

Holly leaned on the bar. A man with a pink mullet, long feather earrings, and a cropped sequin top nodded at her, mixed several bright-blue drinks, and then gave them his full attention.

“What can I do for you, love?” he asked.

“We’re here to meet Sebastian,” Holly said. “Professional business, unfortunately.”

His gaze flicked to the stage, then back to them. “Do you have an appointment?”

“If I did, I would have said.”

The man raised an eyebrow with two rings in it.

“I’m here representing the Seattle coven,” she said. “It’s, uh. Delicate business.”

“I’m sure it is.” He sighed. “Sebastian’s busy tonight. Should I pull him off stage?”

Isaac looked back at the woman upside down on the pole, head thrown back, hair flying, and couldn’t tell if she was Sebastian or not. It made him feel much more at home.

Author: ilgaksu
Title: the thought of men

Excerpt: Allan Lau Fei-Yu isn’t sure when exactly he lost all control over his life. He has a deepening, gnawing suspicion it might have been somewhere between four to six minutes after his birth. He has an even stronger suspicion that any hope of reclaiming it fled screaming about twenty seconds after he walked into the same room as Karl von Betzenstein and his husband.

Author: K. Martin
Title: Lifeline

Excerpt:

Charlotte crutches back inside, where it’s dark and she’s safe from fluorescents, relieved—and also anxious, somewhere underneath the exhaustion. She can feel little flutters of it, but it’s not as strong as it usually is. They were, after all, bound to find out eventually about her bad days. She settles at her kitchen table with a sigh, leaning her crutches next to her. At least she’s in the kitchen now—closer proximity to food is some kinda progress, right?

“Go on and ask,” she sighs, bracing her elbows on the table, and her face on her hands as Lane settles next to her tentatively. Theresa stays standing in the middle of the kitchen.

There’s a beat of silence before Theresa breaks it. “What do you need right now?”

It’s none of the questions she was expecting.

**Time is running out to support our campaign! Don’t miss out – back the Many Hands Kickstarter today!**

The crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica has only 9 days left, and we’re sharing three more teasers! These three are from the stories by Alex Bauer, enchantedsleeper, and D. A. Hernández.

Author: Alex Bauer
Title: Wintersong

Excerpt:

Cam looks back to see Skylar leaning against the wall, still wearing Cam’s sweatshirt and what appears to be the world’s shortest pair of athletic shorts. Purple has blossomed across her thighs in sharp contrast to her milk-white skin. Baring her teeth in a wolfish grin, she whistles and gives several slow claps as she ambles stiffly forward. “Damn, did you come home with a fucking badger last night?”

Adrian flushes crimson all the way down to the scars on his chest before gesturing wildly at her legs. “Depends. Were you… shit—riding? Jockey?”

“Impressive fumble,” Cam says.

“I thought we were having a friendship moment,” Adrian hisses. “Back me up.”

“Friendship means I get free rein to tease you when you flop.” Cam leans back in their chair and crosses their arms, grinning when Adrian rolls his eyes with a muttered curse.

Skylar ruffles his bedhead before bending low, lips brushing his ear. “Who knew Parker had it in him?”

Adrian turns impossibly redder. “Skylar.”

“Oh, was it in you instead?”

Author: enchantedsleeper
Title: Getting the Band Together

Excerpt:

“Wait, Alec, I think you’ve got the wrong idea,” Nat said, starting towards them, which immediately activated Alec’s fight-or-flight response. They jumped to their feet, but there was nowhere to actually go.

“I know it’s awkward having your ex-friend-with-benefits hanging around, and I don’t expect anything, but if you need me out of your ha-mph—”

That was as far as Alec got before Nat pulled them down to her level and kissed them. Alec was more than happy to kiss back, but… what?

Nat pulled away and smiled, holding their face in her hands. “Like I said, I think you’ve got the wrong idea about what I wanted to say.”

Alec stared at her and touched a hand to their mouth. Their brain was in overdrive. Nat coming here, cutting her date short to talk to them, Vincent standing there looking approving…

“So… you don’t want me to go,” they ventured.

“No,” Nat said, still smiling and flushed pink. “I’d actually like for you to be more involved, if you’re interested.”

“…does that mean I can kiss you again?”

In response, Natalie pulled them back in for another, much more thorough, kiss.

Author: D. A. Hernández
Title: The Seduction of Thierry Bacheler

Excerpt:

“Or you could watch while I seduce Thierry and listen to us having sex next door,” Aashiq said.

Yuka glared at him from the confines of her arms. Then she sighed. “It’s easy for you: you’re the University’s Casanova. Everyone knows of you, even if they don’t know you. Never found in classes, always in parties with at least two people in your arms.”

Aashiq shrugged. “Life is all the more beautiful with love around you. You need to give love an opportunity, if you ever want to find it.” He emptied the liquor bottle with a long swallow. Turning to face Yuka, he extended his hand in challenge, his eyes flashing gold. “A fortnight. You give it your all, and so will I. If by the end of it he’s not interested in either of us, we accept it and move on. What do you say?”

After a moment, Yuka shook his hand, and although there was no tingle of a spell or magical contract activating, she felt there was no going back.

Check out other teasers, peek at the merch, learn about the book, and become a backer by visiting our campaign on Kickstarter!

There are only 11 days left to support the crowdfunding campaign to fund the publishing of our next anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, and we’re funded and halfway to our first stretch goal! Today, we’re highlighting three more stories, sharing excerpts! With these, we’re at a total of 9 shared teasers, more than half the stories in our anthology. The authors this time are Taliesin Owens, Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec, and Dei Walker.

Author: Taliesin Owens
Title: Good, Evil, Ex

Excerpt:

“I trust you,” Jana says.

Luce sucks in a breath. “Thought you learned not to.”

“Yet here I am.” She lets go but doesn’t move away. Luce is so close that Jana can smell them, sharp and clean like the air just after lightning. She inhales. She wants to grasp that scent and hold it close, a reminder that being alive is supposed to be electric and interesting rather than a gray march of never-ending existence.

“Because of Ari?” Jana can hear trepidation in their voice, read the anxiety in the set of their shoulders.

“Because I’m tired of being enemies.”

Luce turns their head, and suddenly their faces are much too close together. Jana can feel their breath, a brush of breeze in the warm air. “You’re too damn nice for your own good.”

“Maybe.” Jana should pull away. She doesn’t want to. “Maybe I’m just ready to let you kill me.”

Author: Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec
Title: please, may i have s’more?

Excerpt:

“Is swimming in a strange waterfall basic really a good idea?” Bailey asked, cracking open one eye.

“Most ponds are safe to swim in, and that spot had a current running through it, so it’s not like we’re swimming in mosquito water,” xe said.

“We don’t have our swimsuits on us, though,” Duke pointed out. He leaned forward, casting a shadow over Bailey’s head.

“And?” Mattie asked. “I’ve seen you naked in the locker room more times than I can count, Bays and Tabi grew up together, and I know Bays has walked in on you changing at least three times. We can skinny dip. None of us have anything the others haven’t seen already.”

Author: Dei Walker
Title: Athanor

Excerpt:

She watched his eyelids flutter and fall shut, listened to his ragged breathing ease. Serra counted his breaths; once she was certain the draught had taken full hold, she turned to the critical work ahead. Detaching her mind from her fingers, she focused on the task at hand with the same diligence she applied to her alchemical efforts.

“What are you doing?” Zosima’s voice pealed across the clearing, louder than the thunder that still rumbled in the skies. “What happened?”

Serra didn’t turn from her patient as she kept plucking pieces of burned robe from Mattin’s arms and slathering salve over the places where they had been. “Lightning.” She was proud she kept her voice from shaking. This was something she could do, and confidence steeled her spine. She might not be able to pitch a tent or split wood for a fire, but she knew her potions and her poultices.

She could save a life.

Join us in making this awesome project a reality! Become a backer today!

In case you haven’t seen, the campaign for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica is now funded! Our base funding goal is just the beginning, though, because now we aim for our stretch goals, which are geared toward enabling us to pay our authors more. They’ll earn DOUBLE their current pay if we can hit $11,000 – only about $2,000 more than we’ve raised thus far. Backers at our two merch levels will also get an extra merch item – temporary tattoos!Want to get more awesome stuff and help us give our creators a raise? Give us a hand in promoting the anthology!

Today, we're sharing three more teasers, too. Today's are from the works by contributors Terra P. Waters, Mina Kramek, and YF Ollwell!

Author: Terra P. Waters
Title: The Missing Prince

Excerpt:

Ala scrambled off the mattress and circled it until she could see Théophile’s face. He was bound, blindfolded, and had a dirty gag in his mouth. The urge to play with him was strong, but she resisted, pulling out the gag and removing the blindfold. “Hello, love.”

“Kiss me,” he groaned. “Please, Princess…”

“Théophile,” she said, grasping Kormac’s wrist so he would stop moving his hand. “We’re coming to get you, but we need your help. Where are you?”

“The port city. Channois. They say we’ll sail with the noon tide.” He turned his head toward the mattress, letting Kormac kiss his neck. “Oh, gods!”

She grasped his bound hands and squeezed them. “Is there anything else? Anything you want to tell us?” She looked past Kormac’s shoulder and saw a shadow standing in the doorway.

“Hester,” Théophile groaned, nodding toward the shadow. “Find Captain Hester, here in Channois. Her boat is The Blue Macaw. She’ll help you find me.”

Author: Mina Kramek
Title: Shadow Dealings

Excerpt:

“Gerald Fitzgibbons, your debt has come due.” She manifested gum in her mouth for the express purpose of blowing a bubble in his face, a pointed expression of boredom. It popped, and he whimpered. “Twenty years of wealth and debauchery for an eternity in Hell. There is no escape. Hope it was worth it.”

They always found, in the end, that it had not been.

“Wait, wait!” Gerry squeaked, followed by a garbled name that would’ve been unintelligible if Niya hadn’t found its owner infuriating yet intriguing: “Temerity Jones.”

Niya loosened her grip just enough to allow Gerry to speak clearly. “You have thirty seconds to make this worth my while."

Author: YF Ollwell
Title: Hippie Ipsum

Excerpt:

In the haze of smoke, Heathcliff looked gorgeous as ever. Abernathy hadn’t known him in life, only this strange afterward, but he imagined the living Heathcliff in perfect detail. There was an exuberance in him that in Abernathy was long dead. When he looked sidelong at Abernathy, flashed fangs to him and him only…

It wasn’t fair. When he wasn’t considering the object of his desire, he considered the evil, opposite-of-object—Edmund, silent as ever. He knew nothing about his master’s husband, an odd shadow over his afterlife. The two had exchanged perhaps fifty words in the last century. This was for the best, as Abernathy thought Edmund might like to kill him if he knew the way he felt about Heathcliff. He also thought, in his more pathetic jags, that Edmund would be perfectly justified in said killing. It was sick. It was wrong. Heathcliff and Edmund were committed to each other.

Abernathy turned from Edmund—who was taller than him, who was much bigger and stronger, who was Heathcliff’s Dark Intended and not merely his thrall—and settled on the fiery curls framing Heathcliff’s ear.

Fat white worms of want writhed in his stomach.

Learn about the campaign, read more teasers, check out the merch, and more – on Kickstarter NOW!

The crowdfunding campaign for our first erotic anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica is almost through the first week, and we’re only $600 from our funding goal! We’re very excited about y’alls enthusiasm for this project, and we couldn’t be happier to be able to share it with ya.

With “sharing it with ya” in mind, we’ll be doing several posts with story teasers, and this is the first, featuring three teasers, one each from the authors Lyonel Loy, Eliot Lovell, and E. K. Victor! All teasers are non-explicit, for obvious reasons, and we’re not including tags on our teasers this time for the same reason, but in the book, all stories come with comprehensive tag lists to help readers navigate the collection.

Author: Lyonel Loy
Title: Love, With Bloodstained Jaws, or: Five Times Levente’s Omegas “Seduce” Him, And One Time He Seduces Them

Excerpt: “Any fool can stand by an altar and speak some pretty words,” [Raihan] says. “You bested me with your own hand, and so by our ways I am yours. But it was your troops who captured Melchor. Why should he call you his mate, and not them? If it took twenty strong warriors to best him, surely twenty also are needed to please him. Your Alphonse, who led them: he is such a sweet little thing. It would be lovely to see him under Melchor, spread wide and undone.”

Author: Eliot Lovell
Title: Double Take

Excerpt:

“Here he is,” Mia sings. “Right on time.”

Nathan wipes his hands off on the apron he’s wearing, rounding the kitchen island to close the space between them in a few strides.

There’s a wedding ring on Nathan’s finger. George has got to pay better attention to what’s going on around him.

“You made it,” Nathan says, kind of breathless, relieved, as though George’s journey was farther than three floors.

Nathan wraps an arm around him for a brief hug, nosing into his hair in something like a kiss before pushing it behind George’s ear with a gentle hand. When Nathan pulls back, George blinks up at him. He wonders what his face is doing to make Nathan’s brows notch together like that.

“You’re married,” George blurts.

Author: E. K. Victor
Title: Soul Splinters

Excerpt:

I’ve had this dream more times than I can count.

The setting varies. Sometimes it’s an airport, other times a train station or a bridge I must cross alone. Often I remember nothing but the kiss. The kiss is always the same. We hold one another, chest to chest, hip to hip, and kiss slowly, deeply, every motion loaded with longing. My heart overflows. My eyes brim with tears. I’m aroused, but on waking I rarely find evidence of an erection and never anything more. I invariably awaken—not with a start, but with a whimper. The tears are mostly real.

Usually I dream about Warren. Sometimes, it’s Steve. After, I lie wide-eyed in the dark, listening to the thumping of my heart, and think of the only true friends I’ve ever had, whom I abandoned. I promise myself I’ll call them tomorrow, then remember: with an ocean between us, the time to call would be now—and turn over with a groan.

Time is ruthless. I used to think about them whenever I wasn’t busy. Then only occasionally. Almost never, nowadays. But the less they occupy my conscious mind, the more the dream visits, and the heavier it weighs with the love aging in me like wine in the cellars of a vacant house, never to be tasted.

Want to read more? You’ll need to back the project! Check out our Kickstarter today!

We’re over the moon to share that Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica has been named a Kickstarter “Project We Love.” This keeps up our streak – this is our fifth Kickstarted anthology, and all five have been named “Projects We Love,” highlighting our track record for honestly describing our projects, meeting our goals, and fulfilling our campaigns with fidelity.

Many Hands has also been added to Kickstarter’s July Event “Heartstrings and Hardbacks,” focused on promoting romance book projects this summer! Not every story in Many Hands is a romance, and it’s an honor for Kickstarter to decide we qualify for the event.

We introduced our new anthology in our announcement post – 15 stories! Amazing authors! Scrumptious smut! – so join us as we take a moment to introduce our campaign merchandise! We’re offering six lovely extras across two tiers – a “basic merch” level and an “all the merch” level.

Basic Merchandise

Our third backer tier includes the book in trade paperback and these three awesome items – a new Dux sticker, an art print, and a bookmark! These items are also each available as add-ons to people who back at any level that includes physical merchandise.

The images for the bookmark and front cover art are ginormous so instead of including them in the Dreamwidth post, I'm just gonna give y'all links. :D

Art Print of the Front Cover

Bookmark

Polyamorous Dux Die-Cut Sticker: Alessa Riel is back with a brand-new dux design, featuring multiple dux and their many wings! Dux is our non-binary Press mascot (you can learn more about Dux here), and for this campaign, Dux is getting their snuggle on with two duck friends. 4 in x 2 in/10.25 cm x 5 cm. (Printed by Vograce.)
Art Print of the Front Cover: a gorgeous matte print of the front cover art. 8.5 in x 11 in./21.5 cm x 28 cm. Art by Aaron Kotze. (Printed by Printkeg.) You can view the cover here.
Many Hands Bookmark: this lovely tasseled, glossy bookmark features a second artwork by cover artist Aaron Kotze. On the back are the signatures of the contributors. 2 in x 7 in/5 cm x 17.75 cm. (Printed by UPrinting.)

Higher-Tier Merchandise

To get the all the merchandise, backers can support us for our highest-level tier, which includes the three “basic merchandise” items introduced above, and also an enamel pin, enamel key chain, and a citrus-and-mint scented candle! The only way to get the candle is to back at this level; the two enamelware items are available as add-ons to lower levels.

Lemon Love Candle: a gorgeous mint-and-citrus scented candle in a 3 oz/85 ml metal tin, approximately 2 in/5 cm circular, made by anthology contributor Alec J. Marsh of Speculative Wicktion.
Poly Pride Dragon Key Chain: an awesome, cute key chain featuring a design inspired by the original polyamorous pride flag. Art is by reshipkmn. Epoxy-coated soft enamel with gold metal. 1.5 in x 1 in/3.75 cm x 2.5 cm. (Manufactured by Alchemy.)
Poly Pride Salamander Enamel Pin: this super sweet salamander is bedecked in the colors of the 2022 tricolor polyamory flag. Art is by reshipkmn. 2 in x 2 in/5 cm x 5 cm. Epoxy-coated soft enamel with black metal. (Manufactured by Alchemy.)

Tons of books and merchandise from our previous campaigns is also available as add-ons, which means no matter what merch you like, odds are we’ll have something you’ll enjoy!

AND you’ll get an amazing, spicy book TOO!

See something you gotta have? Come check out our Kickstarter campaign page NOW!

Join us as we crowdfund our first-ever erotica anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica!

For those who love their short stories spicy, we're delighted to announce Duck Prints Press's debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. In this collection of brand-new stories, we celebrate many flavors of polyamory. Orgy? Yes please! Ménage à trois? C'est magnifique! Foursomes and moresomes? Delighted to attend! We asked our contributors to blow our minds with their fun combinations, unusual settings, favorite trope usage, and (of course) super sexy smut—and they didn't disappoint. From a vampire free-for-all to a heartfelt reunion, from surprise soulmates to enemies-to-lovers, this collection has polyamory in lots of scrumptious varieties that lovers of erotica won't want to miss!

This book contains 15 stories, each up to 7,500 words, by our awesome fan-authors-turned-original-fic-authors. The cover is by the awesome Aaron Kotze, and campaign merchandise features art by him, Alessa Riel, reshipkmn, and Speculative Wicktion.

This campaign runs until July 20th, 2024 – there’s no better time than TODAY to become a campaign backer!

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 Many Hands campaign and are a $10/month or $25/month level supporter!

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica is Duck Prints Press’s seventh anthology, and our first collection of erotica stories, and we are beyond thrilled to finally be able to share it with y’all! The cover art is by the amazing Aaron Kotze, and the book has a full, wrap-around cover featuring six figures, in keeping with our poly erotica theme! Here’s our full, spectacular wrap-around digest-sized book cover:

What is this book? For those who love their short stories spicy, we’re delighted to share Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, celebrating many flavors of polyamorous relationships. Orgy? Yes please! Ménage à trois? C’est magnifique! Foursomes and moresomes? Delighted to attend! We asked our 15 contributes to blow our minds with their fun combinations, unusual settings, favorite trope usage, and (of course) super sexy smut – and they didn’t disappoint! From a vampire free-for-all to a heartfelt reunion, from surprise soulmates to enemies-to-lovers, this collection has polyamory in lots of scrumptious varieties that lovers of erotica won’t want to miss!

**The crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands will be launching on June 25th, 2024! Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to make sure you’re among the first to hear when the campaign goes live!**

There’s always more in the pipeline here at Duck Prints Press, and while we’re still putting the finishing touches on our most recently crowdfunded anthology Aether Beyond the Binary, that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped working on what’s coming next! We’re thrilled to be ready to share with y’all the list of 16 authors contributing to our next project – our FIRST erotica anthology! – entitled Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. We anticipate launching the crowdfunding campaign for this campaign in the early spring.

Don’t want to miss out on the latest information about Many Hands? Make sure you follow us on social media and/or subscribe to our mailing list!

The contributors to Many Hands are:

Alex Bauer (Archive of Our Own | Tumblr | Writer Tumblr)
enchantedsleeper (Archive of Our Own | Dreamwidth | Tumblr)
D. A. Hernández (Twitter)
ilgaksu
Mina Kramek (Archive of Our Own)
Eliot Lovell (Tumblr | Twitter)
Lyonel Loy
Alec J. Marsh (Etsy | Instagram | Twitter)
K. Martin (Patreon | Tumblr)
Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec (Archive of Our Own | Tumblr)
YF Ollwell (Archive of Our Own)
Taliesin Owens (Tumblr)
Veronica Sanders (Archive of Our Own | Tumblr (Artificial Queens) | Tumblr (Veronica Sanders))
E. K. Victor (Personal Webpage | Archive of Our Own | Tumblr)
Dei Walker (Discord: .dei. | BlueSky | Tumblr)
Terra P. Waters (Archive of Our Own | Tumblr | Twitter)

You can read their biographies, learn more about the anthology, see what other projects these contributors have been part of with Duck Prints Press, and more by visiting our webpage!

Now that we’ve finished our month-long push for our Kickstarter campaign for Aether Beyond the Binary, we have space and time to talk about literally anything else on our social media (lol). We’ve gotten a couple private inquiries about the status of our other projects, so here’s an overview of progress on our current publishing projects (we’ve also got a couple art projects in the works, but that’s a topic for another day).

To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

fulfillment on the crowdfunding campaign is complete
as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
you can also get the e-book and print-on-demand print book through major retailers and through the library of your choice – you can even special order the book at your local bookstore!
I also have a small number of the campaign deer antler pendants left; if you want one, feel free to contact me privately!
Missed the campaign and curious about the book? Read the first chapter as a sneak peek!

Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers

fulfillment on the crowdfunding campaign for our most recent anthology is complete
as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
you can also get the e-book through major retailers and can request it through your library
we’re working on reformatting the book to a slightly different size so that we can also offer it print-on-demand to major retailers, local bookstores, and libraries everywhere

Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard

all merchandise has been received and prepared for distribution
trade paperback books have been received
the proof of the hardcover edition has been approved, and the hardcover edition is in production
according to our book printer, BookLogix, we should expect delivery of the hardcover edition in roughly a month (around the end of February)
once we’ve received all items necessary for fulfillment, we will send out everyone’s orders as quickly as possible

Aether Beyond the Binary

the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology successfully concluded yesterday!
we are putting finishing touches on stories
we are preparing templates suitable for printing our merchandise
we’ve begun to gather information from backers necessary fulfillment
most fulfillment activities are on hold until the funds clear and we can actually place orders; this will take roughly three weeks

Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

fulfillment on the pre-order campaign is complete
as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
you can also get the e-book and print-on-demand print book through major retailers and through the library of your choice – you can even special order the book at your local bookstore!
I also have a small number of the campaign “Eye of Sacarus” pendants left; if you want one, feel free to contact me privately!
Missed the campaign and curious about the book? Read the first chapter as a sneak peek!

Other Projects

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica: stories for this collection are being edited, with progress ranging from “barely started” to “almost done.” We’re just beginning to discuss the books internal appearance, and are waiting on the final cover from the artist we’re working with. We expect to release the contributor list in the next few weeks and hope to crowdfund the anthology during the spring.
Untitled Best Of Anthologies: we’ll be doing two anthologies – one general imprint and one explicit imprint – featuring stories published to our Patreon and webpage before September 31, 2023. Most of the stories have been set, and we’ll beginning work on the cover and campaign features soon. We expect to launch this during the summer of 2024.
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: recruitment for this anthology closed on January 15th, and we will be selecting contributors and notifying them by January 31st. We expect this campaign to be ready for launch in roughly a year (late 2024 or early 2025).
Untitled General Imprint Anthology: we’re in the very preliminary stages of discussing a theme for our next general imprint anthology, and we expect to open recruitment for it in the late spring, with an expected publication date of summer, 2025.
Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron: our next novella project, we are working on final editing, and once that’s done we’ll begin work on a cover, artwork, and other campaign aspects. We don’t yet have a time frame on pre-orders, but definitely during 2024, before the fall.
The Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence: we still have a great deal of editing to complete on this project, but covers are done and the pre-launch page is on Kickstarter. We’re aiming for spring or summer 2024 for crowdfunding.
We have several other novellas and novels in the pipeline, but none that we’re ready to announce yet. Be on the look-out!

Want to always know the latest on what we’re working on? Want a say in what we work on next? Want behind-the-scenes access, more information, awesome extras, free stories, and more? Want exclusive extra merch for supporting our future campaigns? Best yet: want the joy of supporting queer independent publishing? If you said “yes” to any of these, there’s no time like today to become a backer of our Patreon!

There is only ONE DAY LEFT to apply to our upcoming anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica.

Missed all the details on this project? I’ve got you covered!

We’re recruiting fanauthors to contribute to our FIRST EVER erotica anthology: Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica.

Ready for the specifics?

authors! 17 fanauthors (18+ ONLY!) interested in publishing their original work.
stories! 17 new and never-before-shared, ranging from 5,000 to 7,500 words
plots! Must feature people in polyamorous relationships getting into tropey, erotic situations
pay! We’re paying a minimum of $75 per story (and it’ll go up if we crowdfund enough!)
polyamory! The smut must include at least 3 entities engaging in sexy times
tropes! We’ve compiled a list of 30 of our favorite tropes – all stories must include AT LEAST ONE of the tropes on our list!

If you saw “polyamorous” and “erotica” and “tropey” and went “OMG SIGN ME UP” then we encourage you to use these links to read everything you need to know about applying!

Applications close June 5th, 2023, and we will probably not be opening public applications to work with Duck Prints Press again until early 2024! So if you think you want to write with us, this is a GREAT moment to take the plunge and throw your hat into the application ring!

AUTHORS! APPLY NOW USING THIS FORM!

(are you a returning author – who has already worked with us on an anthology story and/or other story? you can apply using THIS FORM!)

Have questions? Please drop us an ask on Tumblr or e-mail us at info@duckprintspress.com, we’d be happy to give you all the deets!

HOWDY, FANDOM AUTHORS! We’re Duck Prints Press, the indie press run by fandom folks to publish original works by fandom folks, and we are thrilled to announce that, for the first time in months, we are once again open for applications!

This time, we’re recruiting fanauthors to contribute to our FIRST EVER erotica anthology: Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. We’re looking for up to 17 authors to write all-new, completely original, never-before-shared stories ranging from 5,000 to 7,500 words, featuring people in polyamorous relationships in tropey, erotic situations. We’re paying a minimum of $75 per story (and we’ll strive to increase that amount through crowdfunding). All the smut must include at least 3 entities engaging in sexy times, and we’ve compiled a list of 30 of our favorite tropes – all stories must include AT LEAST ONE of the tropes on our list!

Interested? Yay! We’re glad we’ve caught your attention! We are open to all fanauthors over the age of 18 who have posted at least 3 separate works and a minimum of 10,000 words of fanfiction. If that describes you, and you saw “polyamorous” and “erotica” and “tropey” and went “OMG SIGN ME UP” then we encourage you to use these links to read everything you need to know about applying!

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Applications close June 5th, 2023, so don’t miss this chance to join us! We will probably not be opening public applications to work with Duck Prints Press again until early 2024 (though don’t quote us on that, we’re not 100% sure about how the fall is going to shake out. 😀 )

AUTHORS NEW TO DUCK PRINTS PRESS CAN APPLY NOW USING THIS FORM!

(are you a returning author – who has already worked with us on an anthology story and/or other story? you can apply using THIS FORM!)

Interested but have some questions? Please drop us an ask on Tumblr or e-mail us at info@duckprintspress.com, we’d be happy to give you all the deets!

If you've been wondering when Duck Prints Press will open for author applications again, WONDER NO LONGER!

We begin recruitment for our next anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica on May 20th, 2023. For this anthology, we'll be recruiting 17 authors to create all-new, never-before-shared, completely original stories of up to 7,500 words, featuring 3 or more people in tropey, spicy erotic scenarios!

We've been planning this one for aaaages, so we're super thrilled to share it with y'all, and we hope that you're just as excited to see us announce that we're going to publish our first erotic collection!

Want to be ready to apply as soon as we open the form? We've got you covered. You can read all about this anthology on our website!

Rules and Guidelines

FAQ

Schedule

You've got one week until you can apply - so read up, get excited, contact us with questions, help us spread the word, and we look forward to reviewing your applications in June!

Who We Are: Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. Our founding vision is to help fan creators publishing their original works. We are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and publishing stories featuring characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Want to always hear the latest? Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Want to support the Press, read about us behind-the-scenes, learn what’s coming down the pipeline, get exclusive teasers, and claim free stories? Back us on Patreon monthly!

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You can take a peek at the campaign here!

And of course, if you’re not a backer yet, there’s no time like the present to become one! Check out our Kickstarter campaign before time runs out!

Time is running out to support our campaign! Don’t miss out – back the Many Hands Kickstarter today!

Check out other teasers, peek at the merch, learn about the book, and become a backer by visiting our campaign on Kickstarter!

Join us in making this awesome project a reality! Become a backer today!

Learn about the campaign, read more teasers, check out the merch, and more – on Kickstarter NOW!

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See something you gotta have? Come check out our Kickstarter campaign page NOW!

Join us as we crowdfund our first-ever erotica anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica!

This campaign runs until July 20th, 2024 – there’s no better time than TODAY to become a campaign backer!

The crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands will be launching on June 25th, 2024! Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to make sure you’re among the first to hear when the campaign goes live!

You can read their biographies, learn more about the anthology, see what other projects these contributors have been part of with Duck Prints Press, and more by visiting our webpage!

To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard

Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

Other Projects

If you saw “polyamorous” and “erotica” and “tropey” and went “OMG SIGN ME UP” then we encourage you to use these links to read everything you need to know about applying!

You've got one week until you can apply - so read up, get excited, contact us with questions, help us spread the word, and we look forward to reviewing your applications in June!

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**Time is running out to support our campaign! Don’t miss out – back the Many Hands Kickstarter today!**

**The crowdfunding campaign for Many Hands will be launching on June 25th, 2024! Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to make sure you’re among the first to hear when the campaign goes live!**