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A book cover. The book is entitled Twinned: Book 2, author Tris Lawrence, Missed Fortunes. The artwork depicting a stone rook-like tower aflame, with clouds of smoking billowing and sending burning book pages in all directions. In the foreground, two people - a man and a woman - in simple modern jeans and jackets tumbling toward the ground.

Missed Fortunes, the middle book in the Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence, successfully crowdfunded a few months ago. Now, the campaign is fulfilled, and the book is available for sale through our website, itch.io, major retailers, and can be requested at many libraries! You can see a partial list of places that carry out books by visiting our website.

Pick up your copy of Missed Fortunes today!

New to the Twinned trilogy? You can also get book 1 – Commit to the Kick!
Already read Missed Fortunes and wondering about the trilogy’s conclusion? We’ll be crowdfunding it on Kickstarter in August – and you can follow our pre-launch page (and see a teaser of the volume 3 cover!) today!
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A graphic entitled "Last Day to Pre-Order!" It shows a book cover featuring two people falling while a tower burns in the background, with the author, title, and "Twinned, Book 2" written on the cover. The cover is surrounded by arrows and book features: sapphic relationship; college setting; modern with magic, magic is known; asexual main character; tarot and predictive ability; and twins (one is trans!). At the bottom, text reads "Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence"

Our pre-order crowdfunding campaign for Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence ends on February 28th in the world’s last time zone (converts to 8 a.m. Eastern time March 1st!) and as of when I’m posting this we are only $4 from our goal! We are 99.8% funded! So please, please help us cross that last threshold and meet our goal so we can afford to publish this. Every single signal boost is worth its weight in gold. I know a lot of you have already helped and I hate to ask a little more, but just a tiny push will put us over the finish line, so thank you so much in advance.

Anyway. Check out the middle book of the Twinned trilogy, Missed Fortunes! Or get book 1, Commit to the Kick, to see if the series is up your alley! Sales of book one also count toward our crowdfunding goal. We’ve got magic! We’ve got college students! We’ve got loads of queer characters! We’ve got potentially-world-ending danger! We’ve got a dragon! We’ve got crepes! We’ve got tarot! We’ve definitely got twins! So much good stuff in these books, so please consider checking them out.

**Pre-order Missed Fortunes before time runs out!**

Pre-orders end at 8 a.m. Eastern time on March 1st.

A graphic over a white background, featuring an ice cream sundae with a cherry and whipped cream on top and a couple brownie chunks and vanilla ice cream, as well as several hearts in striped like the wlw pride flag, and text. The text reads: Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence. The spice of cinnamon explodes on Carolyn's tongue, enhanced by vanilla and cream. She licks the whipped cream from Serina's finger, savoring it as Serina withdraws, her cheek flushed. Carolyn's tongue tingles. "It's good." "It's the best," Serina corrects her softly, licking the last of the cream from her fingertip before she picks up her spoon and digs in. Pre-order now through February 28th!

We’re now in the final 48 hours of our crowdfunding campaign for Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence, and we’re still 17% from our goal – only $300 to see us hit our pre-order goal! We’d love your help to get there and help us bring this awesome, plotty book (it’s over 400 pages long!) featuring a sapphic queerplatonic relationship between the asexual main character Carolyn and her girlfriend Serina, with a whole lot of “trying to college and also trying to save the world.” Check out our campaign page!

The spice of cinnamon explodes on Carolyn’s tongue, enhanced by vanilla and cream. She licks the whipped cream from Serina’s finger, savoring it as Serina withdraws, her cheek flushed.

Carolyn’s tongue tingles. “It’s good.”

“It’s the best,” Serina corrects her softly, licking the last of the cream from her fingertip before she picks up her spoon and digs in.

You can also (or instead!) order the first book of this trilogy, Commit to the Kick, which introduces the setting of Pine Hills University and many of the characters – and stars an aromantic gay man! Purchases of book 1 of the Twinned trilogy also count toward our goal, so even if you’re not ready to buy a book 2 our of the blue, it’s a great time to buy book 1!

Learn more about these books and how to pre-order them at duckprintspress.com!

Pre-orders close at 8:00 a.m. Eastern time on March 1st 2025.

Meet Tris Lawrence! Tris has been with Duck Prints Press since our very first anthology, Add Magic to Taste, and is the author of multiple novels, including seven books of the Welcome to Pine Hills University series. We’re currently crowdfunding the second book of that series, Missed Fortunes, so what better time is there to get to know this awesome author?

About Tris Lawrence

Tris Lawrence has been writing since she was a child, filling notebooks with the worlds, dreams, and voices from inside her head. She declared in sixth grade that she wanted to be a writer, promptly started drafting her first novel in seventh grade, and never looked back.
Tris has always been fascinated by the way people work: how their relationships fit together, how they interact socially, how they learn and discover. She has read avidly her entire life, devouring mysteries, romances, science fiction, and fantasy novels, and as an adult still loves all of these genres. Her favorite stories center on people who are learning or discovering new things, and coming-of-age stories top that list, which is how Pine Hills University came to be. She wants to share stories of people who are learning how to relate to each other, how to adult, how to college, and how to just be. She hopes to share stories about diverse characters with representation of everything she wishes she could have read growing up, and she hopes that these stories will touch the lives and hearts of those who read them.
When not writing, Tris is a wife, a mother (to two children, two cats, and a dog), a knitter, a system administrator, a black belt in taekwondo, an avid reader, and a music aficionado. Sleep, she claims, is optional.
Links: Bluesky | Dreamwidth | Facebook | Mastodon | Patreon | Pillowfort | Tumblr

An Interview with Tris

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Thank you for sharing, Tris!

**If you’ve enjoyed this interview, why not check out our current crowdfunding campaign for Tris’s book Missed Fortunes?**

A graphic on a dark gray background featuring a stylized wolf with black and gray fur and yellow eyes standing before the moon. Text reads, A wolf stands in the doorway, huge, towering over her. Its feet are splayed, mouth open in a growl. "Shit." Carolyn tries to breathe but can't manage to get enough air into her lungs. "Shit. Shit. Shit." Head down, the wolf takes a step forward, fangs bared as it snarls. There's no place for Carolyn to go. Pre-order Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence thru Feb. 28 2025!

I’ll tell y’all honestly, with less than 4 days left in our pre-order campaign for Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence, I’m a little worried about us hitting our goal. We’re 60% funded, and need only about $800 to hit our overall goal. I know the middle book of a trilogy can be a hard sell – but consider, you could buy book 1 of Twinned instead – and that still counts toward our goal! And then, once you’re hooked, you can pick up book 2!

Today, we’re featuring another quote, in which our main character Carolyn is confronted by a predator straight out of a nightmare…

A wolf stands in the doorway, huge, towering over her. Its feet are splayed, mouth open in a growl.

“Shit.” Carolyn tries to breathe but can’t manage to get enough air into her lungs. “Shit. Shit. Shit.”

Head down, the wolf takes a step forward, fangs bared as it snarls. There’s no place for Carolyn to go.

Visit our pre-order page to learn more about this series, check out our offerings, read other quotes, and more!

A photograph of scattered tarot cards, The Sun featured prominently showing a stylized sun with a face shining over a row of sunflowers and a naked child riding a horse. The cards are over a dark background, and there's text beside the images. The text reads, "Dad said you're twins." "We are twins, but we're predictive, not telepathic," Carolyn says. "She's predictive. I'm not," Kit adds. "Not possible. You're twins. You're both predictive or you're both not predictive." From Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence. Crowdfunding NOW through February 28 2025.

There’s one week left in the pre-order campaign for Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence, and we’re slightly shy of 50% of the way to our goal. We could really use your help making this campaign a success – even just signal boosting our posts goes a long way toward assisting us, as often the difference between a failed campaign and a successful one is people knowing about it. And what’s there to know about?

Missed Fortunes is the middle book of the Twinned trilogy, a series set at the fictional college Pine Hills University in a world similar to our own – except there’s magic! It’s been 10 years since humanity learned that people with Talent have long lived among them, and everyone is still adapting to this new reality and the ways it has changed everything. Meanwhile, twin siblings Carolyn (cis woman! asexual! biromantic!) and Kit (trans man! bisexual and biromantic!) are just trying to get through their junior year. It’d be easier if not for the cracks spreading around them, threatening that this ~new reality~ could bring all of reality crashing down around them…

Have we got your attention yet? Want to read more? We’re offering free samples of Missed Fortunes and also of Commit to the Kick, book 1 in the trilogy, starring aromantic gay shapeshifter Alaric and his twin Drea!

**Don’t miss your chance to help us publish this awesome book – learn more about the campaign and order your copies of Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes now!**

A graphic entitled "Pre-order Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence." It shows a book cover featuring two people falling while a tower burns in the background, with the author, title, and "Twinned, Book 2" written on the cover. The cover is surrounded by arrows and book features: sapphic relationship; college setting; modern with magic, magic is known; asexual main character; tarot and predictive ability; and twins (one is trans!). At the bottom, text reads "Pre-order through February 28th!"

In the first book of the Twinned trilogy, Commit to the Kick, Tris Lawrence introduced readers to Alaric, a freshman at Pine Hills University. PHU is a small liberal arts college in a world similar to our own, but made very different by the long-hidden existence of people with Talents, and the more recent Emergence of Talented people into the public eye. Missed Fortunes, the middle book of the trilogy, continues where Alaric’s story left off. Carolyn, another student at PHU, has tried to keep her head down and avoid rocking the boat as the world has changed around her. But now, it will be her world that’s changing, and she won’t be able to stay uninvolved…

We’re running a pre-order campaign for this middle book of the trilogy through the end of February. We’re already 40% of the way to our goal, but we’d love your help in getting closer. Even if you opt not to back, signal boosts are always extremely helpful and very appreciated.

**Pre-order Missed Fortunes now!**

Not familiar with the first book? We got you covered!

Blurb:

Don’t hesitate.
Don’t overthink it.
Commit to the kick.

For eighteen years, Alaric has lived under the cloying politics of family and his Clan community. His freshman year is supposed to be a chance to explore a world where Clan and his shapeshifting Talent isn’t central to his life. But when his inner bear bursts forth during his first football game, endangering those around him, Alaric realizes that it’s not so easy to ignore his past, or his own internalized anger.

In his quest for anger management, Alaric begins to train in taekwondo, and makes new friends in both sports. He finds that he is creating his own small community, where Clan, Mages, other Talents, and even humans come together and build their own found family.

When Alaric receives news that something has happened to his brother Orson, he must return and deal with his Clan and his place in their world. He discovers that old prejudices are still strong between Clan and Mage communities, but that both may be in danger from a creature long thought to be only a legend. Alaric must figure out how to move forward and prevent a war and protect both his home and newly built communities, his found family with him every step of the way.

Read the first chapter of Twinned Book 1: Commit to the Kick.

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We expect to crowdfund the third book later this year, as we’re in the process of editing it right now. Want to make sure you don’t miss the campaign? You can follow the pre-launch page on Kickstarter now!

A graphic over a dark background. It shows two book covers. The first, entitled Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence (Twinned Book 1) shows a man in a football uniform, with a bear and a dragon rearing behind him. The other, entitled "Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence (Twinned Book 2), shows a tower aflame, two people falling toward the ground. Text at the top of the graphic reads, "Missed Fortunes Pre-Order Campaign Offerings" and bottom text reads "Twinned Book 1 and Book 2 E-Books and Trade Paperback Books.

Duck Prints Press is excited to open pre-orders on our next novel! Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence is the middle book of the Twinned trilogy, a very queer series of books set at the fictional Pine Hills University in upstate New York, focused on the lives of a group of college students trying to navigate all the usual challenges of university while also juggling their individual magical Talents and, oh, maybe sort of kinda the risk of the world ending. Book 1, Commit to the Kick, has been available for sometime, and we are working on editing book 3 for a summer Kickstarter launch with merch and more. Now is the perfect time to grab book 1 if you don’t already have it, pre-order book 2, and get both books read before book 3 goes to print!

The only way to pre-order this book is via the Duck Prints Press webstore!

For this campaign, we are offering both Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes in e-book and/or trade paperback formats, and we’re also offering a set of short stories including our published Welcome to Pine Hills University short stories. Make sure to check out the discounted campaign bundles to save money on your books, and note that backers will get a campaign-exclusive bookplate signed by Tris Lawrence!

The only merchandise we’re offering this campaign is our Patreon-exclusive, a postcard of the Missed Fortunes cover art! All pre-order buyers who also support our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level will get the postcard as a freebie. But don’t worry – our future Kickstarter will have more Welcome to PHU merch – you can follow that campaign’s pre-launch page right now to be sure you’re notified when it goes live.

We encourage you to check out Commit to the Kick if you haven’t already, and if you have, well, here’s the blurb for book 2…

To solve the problem of now…
Remember what lies behind…
Pass through your hopes and fears…
…to the final outcome.

Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she’s a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards.

But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Carolyn’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war.

Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.

Learn more about this campaign today!

This campaign will end at 8 a.m. Eastern time on March 1st 2025.

Duck Prints Press is thrilled to share that next Wednesday, February 12th, we’ll be launching our next crowdfunding campaign – and here is the gorgeous cover of the book, Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence. This awesome story, the middle volume of the Twinned trilogy, follows the students of fictional Pine Hills University as they navigate the usual challenges of college: exams, sororities and fraternities, people with new magic Talents emerging, roommate relationships, and of course the looming danger of the end of the world! Tris crowdfunded book one, Commit to the Kick, a few years ago, and it’s now available through the Duck Prints Press webpage. We are in the process of editing book three, and expect to do a Kickstarter campaign for it over the summer. But before then – now, it’s time for the middle book!

To solve the problem of now…
Remember what lies behind…
Pass through your hopes and fears…
…to the final outcome.

Carolyn knows the Emergence brought her a new community, but it also revealed the existence of people with magical Talent to the scrutiny of the world. Her high school life ended on a tumultuous note, but now that she’s a junior at Pine Hills University, her life has become stable. She has her twin Kit. She has her sorority sisters. She has her Talent and her Tarot cards.

But when the Tower appears in a reading, the world shatters and changes. Kit has left his predictive Talent behind, and Caroyln’s own predictive Talent is changing decidedly unpredictably. She’s seeing visions of fire and destruction, of Shadows moving in the darkness and intruding into the light. And her sorority sister Drea and Drea’s brother Alaric have returned from winter break, warning of looming dangers and the risk of Clan going to war.

Carolyn shouldn’t get involved—doesn’t want to get involved—but with the world crumbling around her and her predictions hinting at worse to come, she can’t imagine not doing what she can. To make matters worse, the only way forward is to reconcile with her past, but Carolyn isn’t sure how to do that nor why it seems so important to the world that she does.

We’ll be sharing loads more about this book in the days to come, so be on the lookout – follow us on social media or sign-up for our newsletter to make sure you don’t miss your chance to pre-order!

Cover artist: Jade Hallett

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!

We’ve got three new short stories out September 28th 2023!

Title: A Ghost for Halloween
Author: K. B. Vimes

General/No Relationship, Family and Siblings, Ghosts, Mourning and Grief, Child Point of View

In the spirit of Color by Owl Outerbridge, The Offered Ones by A. L. Heard, and The Fairy Garden by Rhosyn Goodfellow, K. B. Vimes continues our authors’ tradition of writing compelling stories that explore the fears and hopes attendant with raising children in the modern world.

Halloween is Maggie’s favorite day of the year; she just wishes she knew why her parents hate it so much, why they always refuse to go trick-or-treating with her, why her mother spends the night drunk. At least this year, she’s found another kid to go with her. He’s strange, but Maggie will overlook a lot if it means she gets to have a friend.

Title: Be Not Afraid
Author: Nicola Kapron

M/M, Angels and Demons and the Apocalypse Oh My!, the Hardest Part of the Post-Apocalypse is Finding a Job, There’s Only One Bed (but the Roommate Doesn’t Sleep)

Nicola Kapron returns with her seventh story published with Duck Prints Press, this time exploring how “the end of the world” can mean very different things depending on one’s circumstances.

Tora survives the end of the world, and so does his sister, even though he can’t escape the niggling feeling that one or both of them shouldn’t have. Still, that’s not his immediately problem. No, he’s more concerned about his demon roommate and his odd-job daily gig.

Title: Commute
Author: Eliot Lovell

F/F, the Inherent Awkwardness of Sitting Together on the Train, WLW Disaster Flirting

Fluffy f/f is one of our most popular short story genres. Eliot Lovell’s debut story with Duck Prints Press joins our extensive catalog of works by such authors as A. L. Heard, Violet J. Hayes, Annabeth Lynch, and D. V. Morse. You can check out all of our f/f general imprint titles here.

Eloise intensely dislikes when she has to work in the city, not least because of the commute by train. But the longer the beautiful woman sits across from her in the facing row of seats, the more she starts to think maybe commuting isn’t so bad…

Also Now Available: The Summer 2023 General Imprint Bundle!

The Summer 2023 General Imprint Bundle Includes:

Little Witch’s Apothecary by J. D. Harlock
Chinaski’s Dirty Work by J. D. Harlock
Count the Number of Seeds by Lyn Weaver
Entanglement ‎ by Lyn Weaver
Awkward and Oblivious by R. L. Houck
if it’s meant to be by Tris Lawrence
Chrysopoeia by Zel Howland

Usually $9.93, you can now get all seven of these stories for only $7.99! Come on over and check out a selection of what Duck Prints Press has to offer!

Both of September’s new erotica short stories expand on existing ‘verses that the authors have long been exploring. Learn all about them now!

Title: Just Let Me Lose Control
Series: Welcome to PHU
Author: Tris Lawrence

This is a “canon insert” that takes place midway through the events of Commit to the Kick.

M/M, Friends with Benefits, Loss of Virginity, No-Strings-Attached Relationship

An itch has been growing worse under Alaric’s skin for a long time, and he finally thinks he knows how to cure it: by getting laid.

This is the story of what happened when Alaric left Teas Please to find Thorne for the first time.

Title: Want You Both
Series: Pet Names: A Fantasy M x M x M Smut Collection
Author: boneturtle

M/M/M, Fantasy, Waking Up Together, PWP (Plot, What Plot?), Double Penetration

Mithros wakes up to Aren masturbating and Samael still asleep, and need burns inside him.

Surely, Mithros and Aren can satisfy each other without waking up their other husband. But if Samael does wake up, maybe Mithros can finally get what he truly wants.

In addition to these two new releases, we are excited to share that, as of today, you can now purchase every erotica title we’ve ever published by buying our four convenient bundles!

The 2022 Erotica Bundle

Contents:

Pas de Deux by Aeryn Jemariel Knox
Heart’s Scaffold by Alec J. Marsh
Study Hall by Alec J. Marsh
Heated Desperation by Aria D. Leren
In the Moonlight by E. V. Dean
Easier Than Expected by Samantha M. Piper
so he won’t fly away by Tris Lawrence

Price: $10.99

The Winter 2023 Erotica Bundle

Contents:

Price: $13.50

The Spring 2023 Erotica Bundle

Contents:

Price: $9.50

The Summer 2023 Erotica Bundle

Contents:

Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters by A. L. Heard
Theirs All Along by boneturtle
Want You Both by boneturtle
Cecaelia by Dei Walker
Close and Warm by Robin Mal
Just Let Me Lose Control by Tris Lawrence
Warm Anything You Want by Tris Lawrence

Price: $10.25

Yep, that’s right – for $44.24 US you can get every erotica short story and novelette that Duck Prints Press has published. That’s 30 stories!

And now is a great moment to catch up on our past releases, because starting in October, we will (mostly) no longer be publishing short stories to our webpage. Instead, all story debuts will be straight-to-Patreon (we may still do the occasional “re-publish” of a former Patreon-exclusive to the website). So, if you want to make sure you don’t miss out on all the short story greatness that Duck Prints Press has to offer, it’s a good time to start thinking about backing us monthly on Patreon! We’ll be sharing more information about these changes in October.

Whether you’re craving fluff or feels, laughs or tears, our August general imprint short stories have got something for you!

Title: Count the Number of Seeds
Series: Sunrise Over the Black Forest
Author: Lyn Weaver

This installment of the Sunrise Over the Black Forest ‘verse, formerly Patreon-exclusive, is now finally available to our general readership!

M/M, Gothic Fantasy with Technology, Vampire grapples with the Proper Care and Handling of the human he’s definitely not pining for

The third story written in the Sunrise Over the Black Forest ‘verse, occurring second chronologically, in this tale of the vampire Sevan and the human priest Kel, Sevan suddenly realizes that humans need to eat…and he has no idea where Kel is getting food from.

If Kel starves, Sevan won’t have anyone to feed from, and that’s definitely the only reason he cares enough to pluck some apples from his orchard and bring them to Kel’s church.

Title: if it’s meant to be
Series: Welcome to PHU
Author: Tris Lawrence

Author Tris Lawrence brings us this short, fluffy alternate universe PHU piece exploring what could have happened if Mac and Pawel had met under different circumstances.

F/M Pre-relationship, Canon Divergent Alternate Universe, A “What If They Met Differently” Story, Meet Cute

After acting as the harbinger of the Emergence when she emerged during the Olympics, Kenzie Davis buried her old identity as a gymnast, changed her name, and found a new home and new family in the circus.

Under the identity “Mac,” she’s managed to hide herself very well, using her Talent to aid her act. Her high-risk acrobatics are rendered safe by her timely teleportations…until a boy in the audience doesn’t realize it’s an act, and tries to “help” her with some magic of his own.

Title: Chinaski’s Dirty Work
Series: Nasti Chinaski
Author: J. D. Harlock

The first story in an all-new series from imaginary author J. D. Harlock!

Magic + the Wild West, Humor and Mischief, So Much Drinking

Chinaski might be fangirling a bit when her plan to capture noted criminal Shootin’ Shiloh comes to a head in Pico’s tavern. Now, if only she can collect her pay-day without everything going wrong…

Or: the one where a lesbian bounty hunter debates whether she should seduce the mark before, during, or after the hunt.

Title: Chrysopoeia
Author: Zel Howland

Author Zel Howland, a contributor to our upcoming anthology Aether Beyond the Binary, publishes their first stand-alone story with Duck Prints Press!

Sort-of-One-Sided F/F (It’s Complicatedtm), Trapped Together, Everyone Needs to Use Their Words, Victorian Alchemy and Witchcraft

After Faith is found guilty of witchcraft, she’s subjected to the traditional punishment for her supposed crime: imprisonment for a month in a cave that may or may not hide a gateway to Hell in its unexplored depths.

But Faith isn’t a witch. She’s an alchemist. And while she could use alchemy to survive her imprisonment…if she’s alive when the townspeople return, she’ll be executed, because obviously only a witch could survive a month stoned-in with no food or water.

Even worse, Faith is increasingly sure that she’s not alone in this cave…

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Happy erotica release day, everyone! We’ve got two new short stories for y’all today – and a new book bundle! Today, in celebration for our just having sent out acceptances to applicants to our upcoming anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, we’ve got two new poly stories for your delight!

Title: Theirs All Along
Series: Pet Names: A Fantasy M x M x M Smut Collection
Author: boneturtle

M/M/M, Fantasy, Porn with Plot

A Safe Place to Land and Want You Both introduced us to the god Aren and his husbands, the demons Mithros and Samael, and showed us just how steamy things get when the three are together.

In this prequel story, learn how they met, and got together! The god Aren has been sent by the heavenly court to infiltrate the army of the demon king Samael. He’s expecting the mission to be difficult; what he’s not expecting is the sparks the fly every time he’s sparring with Samael or helping Samael’s husband Mithros with his work…

Title: Warm Anything You Want
Author: Tris Lawrence

M/M/NB, Modern, Established Threesome, Temperature Play

On a snowy winter day, Crys is making breakfast and Jake is outside shoveling snow when their third, Win, comes downstairs, and he clearly only has one thing on his mind.

Theoretically, they all need to get to work, but Win is so deliciously hot, and Jake is so deliciously cold, and, well…maybe, if Crys is very lucky, there’ll be a snow delay, and the three of them will have some time to explore this new (temperature) dynamic between them…

Happy Release Day, Everyone! We publish new short stories and novelettes for our General Imprint on the fourth Thursday of the month, and here we are with five new short stories and a novelette!

June 22nd Releases:

Title: Of Loops and Weaves
Author: Catherine E. Green

F/F, Getting Together, Maximum Fluff

Robin loves to sit in the local coffee shop, crocheting a sweater for her friend Dee, who she hopes will become more than a friend.

She doesn’t expect to need to frog a chunk of project.

And she really doesn’t expect Dee to walk in on her doing so…

Title: Solarpunks: Viva la Revolución (a story in the Solarpunks ‘verse)
Author: J. D. Harlock

Found Family, Utopian Future, the Very Teenage Urge to Rebel Against Authority

The future is perfect, with strong community ties, collective ownership, plenty for all, and an ideal balance of private life and public life.

In such a setting, what’s a group of bored teenagers to do to shake up the order of things?

Sami, Ros, and Amara aren’t sure…but Sami has a plan.

Title: Seal Island
Author: K. B. Vimes

M/M, Queerplatonic Relationship, Ace Trans Main Character, Selkies

Michael has always known he was a boy, and always known he didn’t fit in with either the boys or girls around him in the quiet fishing community where he grows up. To escape the insistence of his friends and family that he become a “proper young lady,” he seeks refuge on the island in the bay where the seals sun themselves during the summer.

It’s not until he’s 18 that he realizes he might be able to make the island a more permanent home. Will the seals welcome the young man who’s never felt like he’s belonged?

Title: More Than We Deserve
Author: Nicola Kapron

M/M, Finding a Slice of Hope Amidst Dystopia, Trans Main Character, Spies and Super Soldiers

Every year, the employees of The Winterborne Group have to fill out Form 301-A, checking off boxes related to gender and sexuality to enhance the megacorp’s diversity numbers.

This year, Dice uses this opportunity to finally, after years of passing, tell the company he’s trans.

That’s not the problem.

The problem is that Grey, Dice’s favorite company-owned Horizon super soldier, has asked for Dice’s help completing his Form 301-A.

Title: Live Like There’s No Tomorrow (a short prequel story in the Welcome to PHU ‘verse)
Author: Tris Lawrence

Family Feels, Surviving Cancer, Finding Hope Through Everyday Struggles

Middle-school student Jackson is not particularly upset about his cancer; the doctor’s assure him he’ll recover, and his biggest concern is that his friends will be a grade or more above him by the time he’s able to get back to school.

Well, that and that he’s sure that his mother is keeping a secret from him, but he can’t figure out what that secret is and she’s not talking about it.

Title: Moongatherer
Author: Willa Blythe

F/F, PTSD, Recovery From Trauma, Bonding While on a Quest Together

The Summer Solstice is approaching, the day when the sunlight lasts the longest and the dangers of being out in the world, exposed to the harsh rays, is greatest. As is their way, Clan Firefox has once again chosen two representatives to travel to Moon’s Rest and make an offering to the Goddess to bring the moonlight back.

No one is surprised that Pomegranate will be making the journey.

But everyone is shocked when Honeycomb is selected, and no one more so than Honeycomb herself.

And, as they set out on their journey, all Honeycomb can see is the memory of harsh solar rays and burning fires…

Maybe during this journey, these two young women can find more than they ever thought to seek…

Think they all sound amazing? Well, you should, because they are. And we’ve got you covered – you can buy ALL SIX of these new titles in one awesome bundle – and save 20% off the list price for buying each story individually!

Come on over to the Duck Prints Press webstore and find your new favorite short story! And, while you’re at it, don’t forget to check out the anthology we’re Kickstarting!

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The US is celebrating Memorial Day this weekend, and all around the northern hemisphere, we’re enjoying the warming weather and the end of a lovely May!

And what better way to enjoy the end of the month than getting your book on?

For only the second time ever, people involved with Duck Prints Press – the independent press founded by fandom folks to publish the original work of fancreators, with an emphasis on works featuring LGBTQIA+ characters – will be attending cons and book events to (officially and unofficially) share more information about the Press!

Interested in learning more by meeting folks involved with the Press? Well, if you’re going to either of these events this weekend, you can!

The Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK

Rachael L. Young, Press staff editor, will be attending The Hay Festival today, tomorrow, and Sunday! We have no official presence at the Festival, but you’ll know Rachael by her awesome Press swag, including several of our books, our pins, our bookmarks, and this amazing Dux tote bag she got custom printed! If you see her, stop by and say hi – and don’t forget to grab one of our business cards before you leave!

Balticon, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Author Tris Lawrence is attending Balticon tomorrow, Sunday, and Monday, where she’ll be promoting her own work and her work with the Press, including participating in multiple panels and doing a reading from her novel Commit to the Kick. She’s also got several of our anthologies for you to take a look at, a pile of business cards, the last unsold print copies of the first print run of Commit to the Kick (we’ve got a reprint in the works, though…) and the debut of our first-ever entirely free Duck Prints Press zine, assembled by author and editor Alec J. Marsh!

Want to meet Tris? Here’s her panel schedule:

Sunday 11:30am – Spear Carriers and Background Characters
Sunday 2:30pm – Works I Wasn’t Ready to Write
Sunday 4:00pm – How to succeed as an ND (NeuroDiverse) creative
Sunday 5:30pm – Reading (with Elektra Hammond)
Monday 11:30am – Small press or self-publish?

If you’re going to either of these events, we really hope to meet you there!

Not able to attend either of these events? You’ll have other chances! We’re still fleshing out our 2023 convention schedule, but we know for sure we’ll have people – and tables! – at these events:

NordCon, Hamburg, Germany – June 2nd – 4th: Alessa Riel and possibly other German Press folks will be attending NordCon! We’ll have a table there, along with cards, stickers, and some other fun freebies.

FlameCon, New York City, New York, USA – August 12th – 13th: we might be attending FlameCon! We are on the waitlist for a small table, and if we’re able to get a table, we’ll be there with bells on (possibly literally). If not, we’ll skip this year, but we’re definitely going to try to make it next year!

FandomFest, Schenectady, New York, USA – August 26th – 27th: I (Nina Waters/unforth), Tris Lawrence, Catherine E. Green, Shea Sullivan, Willa Blythe, Nova Mason, and possibly other Press authors and contributors will be attending this convention, local to where the Press is based! We’ll have a vending table with merch and books for sale, and we’ll also be hosting a panel about transitioning from writing fanfiction to original fiction. We’ll post more about that, including scheduling, once the con organizers formally announce the schedule.

Albacon, Albany, New York, USA – September 8th – 10th: Tris Lawrence and I will be at Albacon in Albany, and we’ll be vending too! We don’t yet know about panels and readings, but we’re definitely looking to get involved. When the event is closer, we’ll absolutely be sharing more information.

We’re looking to expand our con attendance in the future, so be on the look out! And if you know a local con you think would suit us, do let us know!

What about y’all – attending any fun cons or book-related events this summer?

To celebrate National Haiku Day (today, April 17, 2023!) we invited Press contributors to write haiku! Ultimately, three people wrote 10 poems!

Happy National Haiku Day, Everyone. We’d love to read your haiku, too – drop one in the comments, if you’re so inclined!

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!

Duck Prints Press, an aroace-owned small press, would love you to join us in celebrating International Asexuality Day, today, April 6th, 2023! We publish a range of works featuring queer characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, so of course that includes stories with asexual characters. Come, read their stories!

No One Right Way by R. L. Houck (erotica featuring a sex-positive asexual main character!)

“On Not Going to Parties” by Stephen G. Krueger, in the anthology He Bears the Cape of Stars (a short story featuring an asexual character in a queerplatonic relationship!)

“Bånd” by Florence Vale, in the anthology Add Magic to Taste (a short story featuring an asexual character finding an accepting significant other!)

Fortune Favors Felines by R. L. Houck (erotica featuring an asexual dom and their adoring sub!)

Two short stories – “The Journal of Don Pedro: Or, The Straights Are At It Again” by Nova Mason and “find ourselves unstuck” by nottesilhouette – and an art work – “Melancholy” by Joshua Beeking – in the anthology And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: Queer Fanworks Inspired by William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (two short stories feature asexual Don Pedro looking in from the outside at his friends’ relationship shenanigans, the other is in a modern setting and stars ace!Hero!)

Let the Solstice Come by D. V. Morse (starring an aroace character who really just want a good meal and a solid night of sleep!)

Commit to the Kick by Tris Lawrence (a novel about an aro main character and his ace best friend!)

Puppetry by Nina Waters (a novelette with an ace magical robot and her equally ace bff and their not-officially-a-qpr-but-it’s-a-qpr happy ending!)

Bonus! We’ve got an eleventh title coming soon! The forthcoming twin flame by nottesilhouette, which will be published on our website on April 15th, 2023, tells of an ace character and their friends-to-lovers relationship with their best friend!

It’s a great day to read an ace story! Happy International Asexuality Day, everyone!

The January theme for stories is “Snowed In,” and we start the month with this offering from Tris Lawrence – a new side story in her Welcome to PHU ‘verse. But even if you’re new to that setting, there’s plenty to love in this stand-alone wlw story about two high school best friends realizing that maybe they can be “best friends AND”…

Title: Best Friends AND…

Author: Tris Lawrence

Genre: Modern with Magic

Series: Welcome to PHU

Rating: General Audiences

Trigger Warnings: bigotry (anti-magic), dubious consent (mild), micro-aggressions (anti-magic), misogyny

Relationship: f/f, f/m (background), friends to lovers

Character Features: high school student, in the closet

Tags: car accident (mentions of), clothes sharing, first kiss, getting together, high school setting, mutual pining, new york, pov third person limited, present tense, sports (academic), united states of america

Teaser:

Someday Eve should write all the evidence down and see if she can figure out who is and isn’t Talented on the STEM-athlon team. She suspects most of them are. It’s a welcoming place for people who are a little different than the supposed norm.

“We’ll be there in five.” Eve pushes the door closed. “I have a spare T-shirt in my bag,” she says. “I brought it just in case I got something on me during my lab. You can wear it.”

“I have a spare too,” Sandy replies. “Sometimes I get dirty lying down on the gym floor to launch the plane. I’d figured I’d save it for tomorrow, but now is good. I feel gross; it’s been a long day.”

Eve is disappointed; she wanted to share hers with Sandy. Maybe she wants to save the day, or maybe she just wants to see her best friend wearing her clothes.

Length: 14 pages/5,077 words

Price: $1.99 US

Get your New Year off to a gentle, fluffy, friends-to-lovers wlw feels with this all-new story!

Who We Are: Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. Our founding vision is to help fanfiction authors navigate the complex process of bringing their original works from first draft to print, culminating in publishing their work under our imprint. We are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and publishing stories featuring characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.Love what we do? Sign up for our monthly newsletter and get previews, behind-the-scenes information, coupons, and more.

Through the month of January, 2023, all new monthly backers on our Patreon and ko-fi can claim a merchandise freebie in addition to all their backer rewards – which, depending on your backer level, could include a free copy of this story! Why not take a peek at what we have to offer?

Happy December everyone! New month brings us a new theme! We’ve got at least three stories coming out in December based on the theme “The Holidays.” We encouraged authors to take a loose definition of what counts as “the holidays,” so expect a range from “literally actually about a December holiday” through “holidays of the author’s own invention” through “a holiday is mentioned but not prominent in the story.”

For our first “holiday” story, we’ve got a time stamp/after-story for Tris Lawrence’s novel Commit to the Kick, about Alaric and Chris and the events that occur during winter break between Christmas and New Years! Note that while this story is technically stand-alone, it’ll make a lot more sense if you’ve read Commit to the Kick!

Title: so he won’t fly away

Author: Tris Lawrence

Series: Welcome to Pine Hills University/Twinned

Genre: Modern with Magic

Rating: Erotica

Trigger Warnings: death of a sibling (implied), miscarriage (mentions of)

Relationships: dom/sub (subtext), established relationship, family, interspecies relationship, m/m, siblings

Character Features: animal transformation (bird), animal transformation (dog), animal transformation (dragon), animal transformation (other), anxiety, bipoc, non-human character

Tags: anal fingering, christmas, college setting, fraught family dynamics, hand job, manhandling, modern with magic, penis in anus sex, politics, pov third person limited, present tense

Blurb:

Alaric has been named heir for his Clan community, but that hasn’t fixed his relationship with his father or resolved the issues that come with having a very human partner in Chris. His first official political Conclave is complicated, his anxiety heightened under the weight of expectations. Maybe Chris can anchor him so he won’t fly away…

Length: 21 pages/7.862 words

Price: 1.99 US

Add some fascination to your Saturday – get your copy now!

Can’t get enough theme stories? Check out the four stories written for our November theme, “eerie fall”: “Widow’s Black” by Nina Waters, “Campfire Stories” by Nicole Kapron, “A Shield For the People” by Puck Malamud, and “The Offered Ones” by A. L. Heard. Or, look for other Duck Prints Press titles in our webstore!

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Now Available: Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence
Last Day to Pre-Order Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence!
An Ice Cream Date: Excerpt from Missed Fortunes
An Interview with Tris Lawrence
Missed Fortunes Excerpt: What Hunts in the Night
Check Out Chapter 1 Previews of Tris Lawrence’s Twinned Trilogy
Learn about Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence!
Pre-Order “Missed Fortunes” by Tris Lawrence!
Cover Reveal! Missed Fortunes by Tris Lawrence
Ongoing Pre-Order Campaigns: Updates!
September General Imprint Releases: Three New Titles from Duck Prints Press
Two New Erotica Titles for September!
Happy August Short Story Release Day!
New Erotica Releases from Duck Prints Press: July, 2023
June 2023 Releases: 6 All-New Titles from Duck Prints Press Just in Time for Pride Month!
Celebrate the End of May by Meeting Us!!
Celebrate National Haiku Day with Duck Prints Press!
Happy International Asexuality Day! Celebrate with 10 Ace Characters!
New Release: “Best Friends AND…” by Tris Lawrence
New Erotica Release: “so he won’t fly away” by Tris Lawrence

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About Tris Lawrence

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If you’ve enjoyed this interview, why not check out our current crowdfunding campaign for Tris’s book Missed Fortunes?

Visit our pre-order page to learn more about this series, check out our offerings, read other quotes, and more!

Don’t miss your chance to help us publish this awesome book – learn more about the campaign and order your copies of Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes now!

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To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh

Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard

Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley

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Also Now Available: The Summer 2023 General Imprint Bundle!

The Summer 2023 General Imprint Bundle Includes:

Whether you’re craving fluff or feels, laughs or tears, our August general imprint short stories have got something for you!

These, any many other great stories, are for sale on our webpage! Come read with us!

Think they all sound amazing? Well, you should, because they are. And we’ve got you covered – you can buy ALL SIX of these new titles in one awesome bundle – and save 20% off the list price for buying each story individually!

Come on over to the Duck Prints Press webstore and find your new favorite short story! And, while you’re at it, don’t forget to check out the anthology we’re Kickstarting!

The Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK

Balticon, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Happy National Haiku Day, Everyone. We’d love to read your haiku, too – drop one in the comments, if you’re so inclined!

Get your New Year off to a gentle, fluffy, friends-to-lovers wlw feels with this all-new story!

Add some fascination to your Saturday – get your copy now!

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**If you’ve enjoyed this interview, why not check out our current crowdfunding campaign for Tris’s book Missed Fortunes?**

**Don’t miss your chance to help us publish this awesome book – learn more about the campaign and order your copies of Commit to the Kick and Missed Fortunes now!**

**Pre-order Missed Fortunes now!**

Read the first chapter of Twinned Book 1: Commit to the Kick.