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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

We’ve had a very busy October here at Duck Prints Press. In addition to the release of remaining merchandise from our Pride Dragons Merchandise Campaign, the listing of the Art Prints of Works Originally Published to our Patreon, and the general release of our latest print title, the novelette The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver, we also released six new short stories to our Patreon, hosted a panel on Writing Tools and Techniques, and posted new artwork by Max Jason Peterson! 

Become a backer of the Duck Prints Press Patreon, support independent queer publishing, and gets lots of awesome stuff! Read on to learn all about our new releases…

SHORT STORIES: 

Title: Flight Plans
Author: Max Jason Peterson

fantasy, non-binary main character, bittersweet, grief recovery

Excerpt: Liliana’s dad moved her halfway across the country. I tried hard to find her. But there are so many ways to hide. Especially for witches. My spells weren’t enough to see past the cloud of confusion they encountered, and the last thing I wanted was to force my will on hers.

Having nearly incinerated the love of my life, I was loath to try sleeping with anyone else.

Available to all backers of the Duck Prints Press Patreon!

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Title: Ex as in Expired
Author: Nicola Kapron

modern, m/m, vampire x ghost, when your love dies but it’s okay cause you’re immortal

Excerpt: On the last day of every month, Sunny summons his ex-boyfriend from the dead. That’s “ex” as in “expired,” not “ex” as in “former,” because he’s never letting go.

Available to backers at the $5/month level and higher!

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Title: Flying Fish
Author: Lyonel Loy

gen, the inspirational power of friendship, disabled main character

Excerpt: Once upon a time, a gryphon with a bent wing lived in a cave high up on a lonely cliff, deep in the mountains by the edge of the world.

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

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Title: Dear “Xutuix”!?
Author: J. D. Harlock

gen, epistolary, satire as told through a story rejection letter

Excerpt: Dear *¥+¥!,
Or is it “Xutuix”?
Unfortunately, I am afraid that on this occasion, we will have to reject “Confessions of an Interplanetary Time Dilator on the Carputhian Beat in the Mean Streets of Galaxar.” We usually don’t respond to submissions (especially since we’re only taking nonfiction, at the moment). However, you mentioned you were a resident alien, and we did announce that underrepresented writers would receive personalized feedback on improving their writing moving forward.

Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher!

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Title: Snow Day Memories
Author: Merlin Grey

m/m t4t, slice of life during a snow storm, grieving and quilting

Excerpt: The walls keep them insulated from the cold to some extent, but it’s still chilly, and Marques keeps reminding himself that he can’t just turn up the thermostat or turn on a space heater to solve the problem. Even his briefly considered idea of baking something in the oven to heat up the kitchen is quickly discarded when he remembers that, while the stove might be gas-powered, the oven is electric, so it also won’t work when the power is out. He and Theo already grabbed all the blankets in the apartment, but he mentally casts about for anything they might have missed.

“Do you think there might be any extra blankets in the cedar chest?” Marques asks.

Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher!

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Title: Penis Pals
Author: Imogen Cuppaggio

m/m, first person point of view, the eroticism of falling in love with the cryptid who watches you masturbate in the backyard

Excerpt: When my parents died, I could have decided not to sell my parents’ house, my childhood home. I could have stayed and lived with their ghosts looking over my shoulder, along with the ghosts of all the versions of me that existed there. I was in my twenties and not settled anywhere but starting to get that feeling, deep inside, that I wanted to stop wandering, maybe put down roots.

After selling that house and settling their estate and finding a steady job, I took my time finding the right place. I knew I wanted a backyard and at least a little distance from my neighbors. Not a “nobody will hear you scream” sort of distance, but space to stretch out, not be spied on, and to lower the chances the cops would get called.

Because of the nudity.

Available to backers at the $7/month level and higher!

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ARTWORK:

October Patreon Artwork: Forever Halloween
Artist: Max Jason Peterson

The shared image is a crop of the full artwork.

Available to backers at the $5/month level and higher!

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PATREON PANEL:

Title: Writing Tools and Techniques

Panelists: Dei Walker, J. D. Rivers, Alex Bauer, and Max Jason Peterson

Description: Let’s meet together on the first Sunday of October to have a chat about our favorite writing tools and how we use them! This month’s panelists will talk about different tools they’ve used for word processing, editing, researching, outlining, progress tracking, world building, and more. We’ll weigh the pros and cons of our experiences, what we’ve kept using and what we’ve ditched, what we’ve liked and what we haven’t liked, and how we’ve changed our techniques to maximize the utility of the different tools we’ve used. If you’ve got favorite tools, we hope you’ll attend as well and tell us about them!

Recording available to backers at the $7/month level and higher!

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: 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!

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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!

 

Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher owned by @unforth/Nina Waters, founded by fancreators to help fanartists and fanfiction writers publish their original work, with an emphasis on works featuring LGBTQIA+ characters, needs YOU!

There are two ways for you to help, now through September 30th:

• like and share a version of this post post on the platform(s) of your choice to help us spread the word – and to enter a giveaway for an original copy of the first edition of our debut anthology Add Magic to Taste! (Scroll down for details.) Shareable posts: Tumblr | Pillowfort | Mastodon | Bluesky
• become a Patreon supporter, help an awesome small business, get backer rewards, AND get a merch freebie valued up to $5 US!

To help us maximize the amount of money we can pay to creators, we rely on our Patreon to pay our overhead costs. As things stand, we need to bring in about $750 a month to pay our baseline monthly expenses…and as of now, we’re bringing in about $550 per month. Factoring in our website and other online sales, vending, and crowdfunding campaigns, Duck Prints Press is currently breaking even, but we can’t grow, initiate more projects, pay creators more, expand our offerings, get software and equipment that will help us streamline our processes, and more…without enough money coming in to ensure we make ends meet each month.

That’s where you come in! The more people support us on Patreon, even just at $3/month, the more we’re able to do!

In exchange for monthly support, we offer a bunch of cool rewards to people who choose to back us, with 5 support levels ranging from $3/month to $25/month. All backers get coupons to use in our webstore, access to our Discord, behind-the-scenes blog posts, voting rights on polls that decide anthology themes, and at least one free short story per month. At higher levels, backers get exclusive merchandise, one artwork per month, access to our monthly Duck Prints Press Panel, bonus stories, free selections from our book catalog, extras for supporting our crowdfunding campaigns, and more!

We can reach our goals, and you can get lots of excellent stuff, by backing the Press on Patreon now! AND you’ll get your choice of a freebie if you back during the month of September! (All our current backers will get to claim a freebie too, as a THANK YOU for their long-time support of our work.)

What can you get?

This giveaway is the only way to get access to Patreon-exclusive merchandise usually reserved for Patreon backers who also support our crowdfunding campaigns! Here’s the exclusives we have on offering for this year’s freebies:

You can get any merchandise item we offer on our webstore that costs $5 or less, or you can claim a backer-exclusive reward previously only available to Patrons! The Patreon exclusives that I have leftovers of, listed left to right, top to bottom, are:

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged – this version of this design is only available in this set of 5 note cards with envelopes (art by A. A. Weston)
• The Salt in the Sea – blue iridescent acrylic wave pin (art by planetsandmagic) (only 4 available)
• Pride Dragons – Gilbert Baker Pride Flag and Intersex Inclusive Pride Flag acrylic pins (art by Florilege) (only 5 and 4 of these respectively)
• Hockey Bois – standee of chibi art of the two main characters (art by diminuel) (only 1 available!!)
• Scrap Metal Angel – rainbow feather magnet featuring the same art as the chapter dividers (clip art) (only 4 available)
• He Bears the Cape of Stars/She Wears the Midnight Crown – sun/moon day/night mask die-cut sticker (art by Aceriee)
• Aim For The Heart – musketeer of pierced hearts magnet (art by Aceriee) (only 1 available!!)
• Many Hands – poly pride flag dragon with hologram stars (art by reshipkmn)
• Missed Fortunes – post card of the cover art (art by Jade Hallett)

If none of these are to your taste, on duckprintspress.com we’ve got bookmarks, stickers, key chains, magnets, and more!

All backers, current and new, who back at the $25/month level by the end of September will ALSO get our 2026 Calendar of Queer Art as a freebie! You can learn more about the calendar on our webpage.

Wait, what was that about a giveaway?

Don’t want to be a backer but want to help us spread the word? Have we got a giveaway for you! To encourage people to share this post, we’re offering a free copy of the first edition of our first anthology Add Magic to Taste, which features 20 sweet, fluffy, queer stories set at magical coffee shops, tea houses, and bakeries. There are only three mint, print copies of this book left, and they’re not for sale – this is the rare chance to get one for yourself!

Want to help a small, fan-run, aroace-agender-owned independent business get more support, and maybe win something awesome for your efforts? Then enter the giveaway! You get one entry for liking this post, and one entry per reblog/reskeet/share for up to three reblogs/reskeets/shares! AND you can get additional entries by sharing our posts on different platforms: we’re posting shareable versions of the giveaway on Tumblr, Pillowfort, Bluesky, and Mastodon! (Note: we will NOT give entries for people making their own posts. We love when people make their own posts, but they’re too difficult for us to track for giveaway purposes.)

TL:DR: Duck Prints Press is a growing indie press working with fancreators to publish queer art and fiction. Become a backer on Patreon during September 2025, and get all the backer rewards associated with the backer level you select PLUS a freebie worth up to $5. Help spread the word and get entries to win a fabulous print anthology available nowhere else!

Stuff for us, stuff for you – couldn’t be better! Don’t miss your chance: this event ends September 30th, 2025!

(And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list so you can hear about our latest projects, merchandise releases, crowdfunding campaigns, publications, coupons, and more!)

Thanks in advance, everyone.

(For all legalese related to this promotional event and giveaway, go to this link! Make sure you check it out.)

Our July panel was during the last weekend of July, and now hot on the heels of that, our August panel for Patreon backers at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month level is during the first weekend of August!

Become a Duck Prints Press patron and join us this Sunday, August 3rd, at 7 p.m. Eastern time (converter) as our panel of creators discuss strategies and approaches for integrating worldbuilding into our stories!

Panel Description: No matter what genre you write, world building is essential for setting the scene, helping readers understand the when and where and why of the story, and framing the narrative. Some stories require a lot of worldbuilding, others very little, but no matter how much is necessary to help the readers navigate the characters’ surroundings, figuring out how to work that worldbuilding into the story is a perpetual concern. This panel, we discuss effective and ineffective ways of integrating the worldbuilding into stories, how approaches may vary depending on the length of the story and the genre, standard worldbuilding advice such as “show don’t tell” and “don’t infodump!”, and examples of stories we’ve read where we thought the worldbuilding was especially well or especially poorly integrated with the narrative.

Panelists: Nina Waters, Vee Sloane, Dei Walker, and Zel Howland

We’re only a few days from our May Patreon panel. Relationships Beyond Romance will be at 6 p.m. Eastern time (converter) on May 24th – a 1-hour, convention-style panel held via zoom for backers who support our Patreon at the $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month levels.

Description: Romance is fun to watch and read, but while it’s far from the only relationship dynamic possible between people, all too often, romance is emphasized and placed on a pedestal compared to relationships with friends, family, peers, colleagues, and others. This panel, we take time out to place the emphasis squarely on the platonic, to examine why we value relationships that aren’t romantic and why we think they’re important to feature in books, TV, movies, and other media. Topics include: what do we mean by romance, and what do we mean by non-romantic relationships; what dynamics attract us and why; what are some of our favorite stories that focus on platonic relationships; how can we diversify our media consumption and creation; and a discussion of why we think all this matters.

Panelists: Rhosyn Goodfellow, Vee Sloane, May Barros, and E. Conway

Nina Waters will serve as moderator.

Already a Patreon backer? I hope you’ll join us! Not a backer yet? There’s no time like the present to become one!

Did you or are you planning to back our pre-order campaign for the m/m fantasy-mystery novella The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers?

Did you know that Duck Prints Press has a Patreon with backer levels starting at a mere $3/month?

Did you know that people who support our Patreon at the $10/month level or the $25/month level get a bonus, exclusive freebie for every single campaign they back?!

Duck Prints Press keeps our lights on month to month with the income from our Patreon, which ensures the Press has a minimum, reliable, steady stream of money coming in that we can use for software subscriptions, paying editors and authors and artists, maintaining the physical equipment the business needs, covering registration fees for events, taking care of gas when we travel to vend, and more. Every single backer helps, and we want YOU to become one of those backers, if you’re able (or spread the word if you’re not – that helps too!). Backers get behind-the-scenes access, Discord privileges, free short stories, coupons for our webstore, and more – with increasing benefits the higher the backer level!

The bonus merchandise for The Salt in the Sea? An acrylic pin on translucent blue iridescent plastic of this gorgeous blue-wave version of the scene divider we’re using in the book! (“Transparent” places, which will be translucent blue, are shown with checkerboard so it’s clear where the design is and isn’t.)

Already pre-ordered The Salt in the Sea? It's not too late to become a Patreon backer and get the bonus merchandise! Not yet pre-ordered The Salt in the Sea? Support us on Patreon at any level and get a coupon code you can use immediately to save money when you pre-order the book!

Pre-orders for The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers close at 8 a.m. Eastern on April 15th. Pre-order your copy today!

Tomorrow, we’re hosting the February Zoom panel for our $7/month, $10/month, and $25/month backers on Patreon! Our topic is time management and project management. What’s that mean? Well…

In our busy lives, managing our time has become an essential skill. For writers, who frequently have a day job atop writing as well as other daily responsibilities, figuring out how to manage our time to write and how to pace our projects in a way that’ll give us a hope of success can be doubly difficult. For this panel, we’ve gathered a group of people who have figured out time management and project management techniques that work for them, and have experimented with techniques that didn’t work for them, to discuss their successes and failures. We’ll explore a range of options, while recognize that there’s no One Right Way nor one-size-fits-all solution to managing our writing projects. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn a technique that’ll work for you! Discussion topics will include: how we manage our time to create space to write; how we manage entire projects to ensure we are able to see things through to completion; strategies we’ve tried that haven’t worked for us; different approaches we’ve applied to different types of projects; and more!

The panelists for this month are Rhosyn Goodfellow, J. D. Rivers, Alex Bauer, Max Jason Peterson, boneturtle, and Shea Sullivan, and I (unforth/Nina Waters) will be acting as moderator.

Interested? Join us Saturday February 22nd at 2 p.m. Eastern time (converter). Become a Patron today!

A little behind on posting this overview cause, well, gestures vaguely at the last week. I think y’all understand.

In October, we officially published our most recent anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica and what leftover merchandise we have from the crowdfunding campaign. We also released an awesome nine stories to our Patreon, hosted a panel on Why Tell Stories? (the recording available to some Patreon backers!), and released a new exclusive artwork as well. Read on to learn all about everything.

Indeed, we did so much in October that putting it all in a Dreamwidth post just isn't going to work, so instead - here, have an overview, and for all the deets, visit our blog post on duckprintspress.com!

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Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

• book!
• Temporary Tattoo Sheet with Polyamorous Symbolism
• Poly Pride Dragon Enamel Key Chain
• Polyamorous Dux Die-Cut Sticker

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General Imprint Short Story Releases

• RE: Sleeping Beauty by Nicola Kapron. Mythology-Inspired Science Fiction with Fantasy Elements. M/M, Document-Based Storytelling, Fairy Tale Retelling.
• The Ending Line of Casablanca by Lucy K. R. Modern. NB First Person Point of View, Trope Inversion, Enemies to Friends. First in the Queer as Flors ‘verse!
• Going Dark by Max Jason Peterson. Modern Horror. Bigender Main Character, Character Death, Photography, Accidental Murder.
• Unsafe Haven by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec. Science Fiction. M/M Pre-Relationship, Resistance Against Injustice. Prequel to sweet static, second story in the Mechanica ‘verse!

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Explicit Imprint Short Story Releases

• sweet static by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec. Science Fiction Erotica. M/M Human/Android, Wire Play. First story in the Mechanica ‘verse!
• The Author Could Not Think of a Title by Lyonel Loy. Crack Fantasy Reader-Insert Metafiction. Threesome, Spanking, Humor.
• Goals by R. L. Houck. Modern Erotica. M/M Established Relationship, Slice of Life.
• The Benefits of Consequences by Dei Walker. Fantasy Erotica. F/M Bi4Bi, Pegging, Magical Body Modification.
• Running Mates by boneturtle. Modern Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics Erotica. F/F, Well-Endowed Female Alpha, Friends to Lovers.

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Original Art Releases

I want to be different. by Jagoda Zirebiec

Jagoda had this to say about the inspiration behind this piece: Instead focusing on relationships, i wanted to play around “self-reflection”. So i came up with a idea of trans character seeing their “ideal” self in a water reflection, here a medieval setting, so ideal is a knight.

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October Patron Panel

Why Tell Stories?

Description: We love to tell stories, and we feel the desire, and sometimes need, to tell them and share them. That much is a given, but it begs the question: why do we feel that way? There are surely as many answers to this as there are people, but when we enter into discussion with our fellow storytellers, some common threads emerge. Discussing our reasons, those that we share and those in which we differ, is the purpose of this panel. Some of the topics we will discuss in this panel are: what has drawn each of us to tell stories, how do we decide which stories to tell, who do we tell these stories to, how do we decide how to tell these stories (such as what storytelling formats to use, how to approach narrative framing, etc.), what we consider a “successful” story, and, in the end, we’ll aim for a synthesis conversation to answer the original question: why tell stories?

Panelists: May , Sage Mooreland, boneturtle, Alex Bauer, Sebastian Marie, and Rhosyn Goodfellow

A recording of this panel is available to Patreon backers at the $10/month level and higher!

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Alternating Thursdays, we release new short stories to our Patreon! More than 40 stories are available to ALL backers from the moment they back, with more at every level to a total of more than 100 for our highest-level backers. Backers also get access to our Discord server, coupons to use in our webstore, exclusive extras for backing crowdfunding campaign, opportunities to vote for our anthology themes and request short story topics, access to contribute to our blog posts, and much, much more.

So what are you waiting for? Become a backer today and get in on the conversation!

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Ever wondered how Duck Prints Press picks our anthology themes? The answer is…we don’t! Our Patrons do! Any backer on our Patreon, from $3/month on up, gets a say – and the current poll to pick our next theme is running right now!

Our twelfth anthology will be the second erotica collection. Our first, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, crowdfunded over the summer and we will be completing campaign fulfillment within the next week, with the book to become available to the general public in mid-fall.

For this new set of short stories, we first chatted with folks on our private Press Discord, then the Press staff narrowed that down to a few specific ideas, and now we’re at the last step – where everyone who supports us gets a say!

No matter the outcome of the vote, our next anthology will feature…

1. stories about explicit sex with non-human creatures, monsters, and the like;
2. fully consensual liaisons;
3. unconventional genitalia (not required by highly encouraged);
4. happy endings; and
5. queerness!

But that’s not narrow enough to make an interesting thematic collection of stories, so that’s where our backers (and, perhaps, you!) come in. What are the choices for specific themes that are being voted on?

• cottagecore (but explicit and with monsters!)
• courtship and mating rituals (“how to woo your human”)
• underwater settings and underwater creatures
• your friendly neighborhood cryptid
• ye older high fantasy monsterloving (fairytale/folklore/mythology-inspired encouraged!)

Honestly, I’m glad I don’t have to pick, because it’s a damn tough choice – they all sound awesome. But pick we must, and one will become the theme for our next anthology.

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