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Hello hello! Happy Monday! The campaign for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” has crossed 70%, and our power level funding level is over $9,000! Today, join us to enjoy three more story excerpts and two more trimmed art teasers! Check out today's glimpses within the covers by visiting our latest campaign update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/duckprintspress/a-truth-universally-acknowledged-a-queer-fanworks-anthology/posts/4260376
Now Available: Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard
Mar. 28th, 2024 10:01 am
Our successful crowdfunding campaign for Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard has been fulfilled, backers have their awesome rewards, and that means now, even if you missed the December pre-order window, now you can get your copy of this fun contemporary hockey slow-burn mlm novel!
Nick Porter has always loved hockey. Ever since he can remember, it’s been his favorite thing in the world. It’s too bad he never learned to play, he’d tell himself, but it was too late to do it now. Adults don’t just magically learn to skate and join a hockey team. That’d be ridiculous.
Except maybe they do? On a whim, he decides to sign up for an adult beginner’s class. He learns to skate, joins a team, and meets a really hot teammate… and it’s pretty much a disaster from there on out.
Available in…
- e-book from our website, major retailers, and through the library e-book app of your choice!
- trade paperback from our website and major retailers, and you can request it from your library or bookstore of choice!
- hard cover is only available through our website, and only while supplies last. We have about a dozen copies left and will not be printing more so if you want the hard cover, get it while you can!
Want even more? Don’t miss the merchandise!
- chibi Nick and Brady magnets (sold as a set – and sorry, despite the image suggesting otherwise, the Brady magnet is not holographic)
- two-sided bookmark
- chibi Brady skating sticker (holographic!)
- chibi Nick skating sticker
- chibi Nick and Brady holding hands
- Nick and Brady clinking beer bottles; and
- the front cover artwork (very limited supplies left on this one!)
And that’s not all! Can’t get enough and Nick and Brady? We have short stories by A. L. Heard for that!
Brady Jensen vs. Haunted House: a “what if” alternate take on if these characters went to high school together!
Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters: a sexy “what if” college setting version, with sex pollen!
Snowbound and Love Sick: another sexy alternate take, this time snowed-in together in a cabin – what could possibly go wrong?
And you can get EVEN MORE on A. L. Heard’s ko-fi!
Come on over to the Duck Prints Press Webstore and Get Your Copies Now!
Ongoing Pre-Order Campaigns: Updates!
Jan. 26th, 2024 11:11 amNow 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’re celebrating the success of our plea for signal boosts about our project to fund publishing of a new edition of Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard with a tall, cold pint, some pining, and an excerpt! In the last 24 hours, we’ve gone from 50% funded and in serious danger of not meeting our goals before December 10th to 97% funded and likely to hit our base goal TODAY! A huge HUGE thank you to everyone who helped spread the word – we truly couldn’t have done it without you.
“Dating anyone?” Max asked. It was casual, the obvious next step in his line of questioning, but Nick could sense Jenna’s meddling at work.
“No,” Nick said with a note of finality that he knew none of his cousins would heed.
“There’s a hot guy on his team he wants to bone,” Terry said.
If y’all have been following this campaign, you already know who Nick wants to bone – that’d be Brady, the main love interest! – but if you want to know how his meddling cousins and friends fit in and just how slow this burn ends up being for poor Nick, you’ll have to get the book!
Pre-order Hockey Bois TODAY – Before Time Runs Out!
Reminder: people who back our Patreon at the $10/month and $25/month level get an exclusive bonus – an acrylic standee of Nick and Brady! It’s too cute to skip, so if you love Hockey Bois and you’re not a backer yet, there’s no time like the present to support Duck Prints Press’s indie publishing monthly!
Some couples start out with instant fireworks and mutual interest. Nick and Brady, the MC (main character) and ML (main love interest) in Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard? Not so much, unless those fireworks are being caused by the friction…
“How many league games have you played?” Brady asked, eyes narrowed as he gave Nick a discerning once over.
“Can I count tonight?”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake—” Brady rubbed a hand over his face and mouthed a silent prayer. He focused on Nick again before demanding, “You play D?”
Nick blinked in surprise and suppressed a laugh. Him? Play defense? Yikes.
Though he probably shouldn’t say “yikes” about his own play out loud, at least not to this guy.
How does Brady get from “loudly judging” to “I love you”? You’ll have to read Hockey Bois to find out! Check out the crowdfunding campaign now to learn all about the book and awesome extras we’re offering!!
We’re only 50% funded with a mere four days left, so we could really use your help – please do signal boost our posts about this project. We want to see this new edition of this awesome book go to print!
In A. L. Heard’s mlm sports romance Hockey Bois, protagonist Nick spends a lot of time playing hockey…and pining for sexy teammate Brady. Today’s excerpt gives a splash of our main character and main love interest in their preferred environment: a hockey rink!
“Nice of you to join us, Brady,” the guy in charge [of the pick-up game] barked. “It’s not like we’re paying by the minute here.”
“Fuck off,” Brady grumbled.
“Ray of sunshine as always,” the guy shot back and, with a wave, dismissed him to the scoreboards. “You’re lucky you make my numbers even.”
Brady glided right to Nick as if there were nowhere else he’d go. Nick ignored the way his pulse quickened and how Brady’s presence put him at ease.
Curious just how long Nick is going to (claim to) ignore the way his pulse quickens when he sees Brady? You’ll have to read the book to find out just how slow the slow burn is. Pre-order your copy of Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard now!
Pre-Order Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard!
Dec. 1st, 2023 09:57 am
Pre-orders for A. L. Heard’s modern beer-league hockey m/m romance are now open!
Nick Porter has always loved hockey. Ever since he can remember, it’s been his favorite thing in the world. It’s too bad he never learned to play, he’d tell himself, but it was too late to do it now. Adults don’t just magically learn to skate and join a hockey team. That’d be ridiculous.
Except maybe they do? On a whim, he decides to sign up for an adult beginner’s class. He learns to skate, joins a team, and meets a really hot teammate… and it’s pretty much a disaster from there on out.
Almost three years after the debut of Hockey Bois, A. L. Heard returns with a new edition of this much-loved book! The text has been revised and streamlined, the interior appearance re-done, and we’ll be offering an e-book edition, trade paperback, AND hard cover! If your preferred flavor of m/m story is slow burn, mutual pining, and romance-with-plot, you won’t want to miss this, and the hockey hunks are just a lovely, delicious, not-to-be-missed bonus!
What can you get?
- Hockey Bois e-book (ePub and PDF formats included in one purchase!)
- Hockey Bois Trade Paperback Book
- Hockey Bois Hardcover Book
- STICKERS! We have five stickers on offer – the front cover art, the main character Nick skating, love interest Brady skating, Nick and Brady holding hands, and Nick and Brady sharing a hug and beer.
- a two-sided bookmark featuring Nick on one side and Brady on the other
- chibi magnets of Nick skating and Brady skating
- Patreon Extra: all Duck Prints Press Patreon backers at the $10/month and $25/month level who also participate in this pre-order campaign will get an acrylic standee of the adorable chibi art of Nick and Brady holding hands!
Can’t decide what to get? We have bundles for that…
- Hockey Bois e-book + trade paperback book
- Hockey Bois e-book + hardcover book
- Hockey Bois e-book + trade paperback book + merch
- Hockey Bois e-book + hardcover book + merch
Visit our pre-order campaign page to read all the details, access the shop listings, and get your books and swag NOW!
Pre-Orders for Hockey Bois Open TOMORROW!
Nov. 30th, 2023 11:11 am
Nick Porter has always loved hockey. Ever since he can remember, it’s been his favorite thing in the world. It’s too bad he never learned to play, he’d tell himself, but it was too late to do it now. Adults don’t just magically learn to skate and join a hockey team. That’d be ridiculous.
Except maybe they do? On a whim, he decides to sign-up for an adult beginner’s class. He learns to skate, joins a team, and meets a really hot teammate… and it’s pretty much a disaster from there on out.
Pre-orders for the all-new, revised edition of A. L. Heard’s novel Hockey Bois open tomorrow! We’re also, for the first time ever for this book AND for Duck Prints Press, offering a hard cover edition. Wondering what else we’ll have and how things are priced? The campaign page is now live, so you can preview all the awesome we’ve got for you and get even more excited about this fantastic opportunity to get a great m/m book!
Too excited to wait ’til tomorrow? We gotchu! Join us on Discord TONIGHT, November 30th, at 8 p.m. Eastern time for a pre-launch ask me anything session with author A. L. Heard! Bring a beer, your love of hockey, and of course your plot- or writing-related questions to ask this accomplished, prolific writer!
DPP Contributor Interview: A. L. Heard
Nov. 29th, 2023 10:37 am
A. L. Heard is one of the founding members of Duck Prints Press and has been a part of our planning team since before our official inception, offering her advice and expertise to the Press since mid-2019, and she’s been an editor on our anthologies Add Magic to Taste, And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, He Bears the Cape of Stars, She Wears the Midnight Crown, and Aim For The Heart. She’s also a prolific author of stories of all lengths and in all genres, and one of the most active authors involved with the Press.
Pre-orders of the revised edition of A. L. Heard’s debut novel Hockey Bois open on December 1st, 2023!
Want to meet A. L. Heard and ask her YOUR questions? YOU CAN! Join us TOMORROW, Thursday, November 30th, at 8 p.m. Eastern time (converter) on our Book Lover’s Discord server for a very special Ask Me Anything session with the author of Hockey Bois!
Author Biography: Ashley, pen name A. L. Heard, fandom name jhoom, is a 35-year-old teacher, writer, and mother of two little boys. She’s been writing fanworks since she discovered fanfiction.net back in her middle school days; the platform has changed and the writing’s improved, but Ashley ultimately still spends her free time writing about characters she adores in worlds she’d like to explore. Her first novel, Hockey Bois, was published in 2021. In between writing projects, she works as a language teacher in the Pittsburgh area, plays hockey, and plays trains with her sons.
How did you pick the name you create under?
It’s a combination of my [real life] name and family names, making it unique but also still connected to me.
When and why did you begin creating?
I started writing fic during middle school and went through phases where I’d write fic and original work and then long periods with no writing. I’m happy to be settled into writing on a regular basis 🙂
What’s your favorite part of the creation process?
The brainstorming and playing around with a new story and characters, where everything is still possible and I haven’t had to commit to any particular plot point.
Describe your ideal creation space.
An office that’s well lit with an endless supply of tea or coffee or snacks, with no distractions or extra noises except birds. Either that or a brewery or cafe with background noise.
What are your favorite snacks and/or drinks to consume while creating?
Tea, coffee, and baked goods (cookies, scones, that sort of thing)
What’s one thing (style, genre, etc.) that you think you’ll never do, and why not?
Epic fantasy – they’re awesome stories but I don’t have the creativity/brain for a large scale world and magic system like that.
Short Stories A. L. has published with Duck Prints Press:
- Brady Jensen vs. Haunted Houses (modern high school Hockey Bois au, m/m, getting together)
- Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters (modern college Hockey Bois au, explicit, m/m, sex pollen)
- In Which James Willoby Enjoys a Ball Far More Than One Should (victorian, explicit, m/m, secret relationship)
- Masquerade at Melchor (in the anthology He Bears the Cape of Stars) (science fiction, m/m/m, heist rivals to lovers)
- The Musketeer’s Daughter: The Tale of Jacques Toussaint (in the anthology Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” – coming to our webstore in January, 2024) (historical, f/m, trans musketeer, getting together)
- The Offered Ones (fantasy, no ship, found family, children lost in the woods)
- The Princess and the Maze (fantasy, no ship, fairy-tale vibe)
- Princess Antonia del Montari aka The Accidental Barista (modern, f/f, coffee shop fluff)
- Snowbound and Love Sick (modern college Hockey Bois au, explicit, m/m, snowed-in together)
- The Tasty Crumpet (in the anthology Add Magic to Taste) (modern with magic, m/m, idiots to lovers)
Get to Know the Hockey Bois
Nov. 28th, 2023 10:38 amPre-orders for A. L. Heard’s novel Hockey Bois open on December 1st, 2023. Yeah, it’s a m/m beer-league hockey plot-ful romance, but what are these bois really like? Let’s hear from them in their own words…
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Coming Soon: Hockey Bois Pre-Orders
Nov. 27th, 2023 01:02 pm
Love a good sports story with a healthy side of romance? How about slow burn? mlm? Idiots to lovers? Then do we have a novel for you! Almost three years after the debut publication of Hockey Bois, A. L. Heard returns with a new edition of this much-loved book! The text has been revised and streamlined, the interior appearance re-done, and we’ll be offering an e-book edition, trade paperback, AND hard cover! If your preferred flavor of m/m story is slow burn, mutual pining, and romance-with-plot, you won’t want to miss this, and the hockey hunks are just a lovely, delicious, not-to-be-missed bonus! Pre-orders open December 1st, 2023 and will run until December 10th.
BLURB:
Nick Porter has always loved hockey. Ever since he can remember, it’s been his favorite thing in the world. It’s too bad he never learned to play, he’d tell himself, but it was too late to do it now. Adults don’t just magically learn to skate and join a hockey team. That’d be ridiculous.
Except maybe they do? On a whim, he decides to sign-up for an adult beginner’s class. He learns to skate, joins a team, and meets a really hot teammate… and it’s pretty much a disaster from there on out.
Follow Duck Prints Press on social media, sign-up for our newsletter, and join our Book Lover’s Discord Server to ensure you hear when this campaign launches!
(We’ll also be hosting an Ask Me Anything session with author A. L. Heard on November 30th at 8 p.m. Eastern time, so seriously, if you haven’t joined our Discord yet, you should.)
And don’t forget: our Patreon backers will get a campaign-exclusive extra, and they also have access to an alternate-universe story about Nick Porter and Brady Jensen, a what-if for if they went to high school together and celebrated Halloween with their friends, Brady Jensen vs. Haunted Houses. So become a backer now!
Today is our October release day, and we’ve got three short stories out! Two are former Patreon stories now released in our store, which means you can back us on Patreon and read them both, or you can buy them individually by visiting our website! The third is a Patreon-exclusive. Going forward, most of our short stories will publish directly to our Patreon account, and will not become available to on our website as stand-alone purchases. So, if you love Duck Prints Press and want to get access to all the great short mostly-queer stories that we have to offer, there’s no time like RIGHT NOW to become a backer. $3/month backers get access to 31 short stories immediately, and backers at higher levels can get even more!
So back us out on Patreon and read to your heart’s content! (or visit our webstore and buy the stories you want the most!)
Today's releases:Title: Brady Jensen vs. Haunted House
Author: A. L. Heard
M/M, Modern High School Setting, Mutual Pining Idiots to Lovers
Brady Jensen is excited to attend this year’s Halloween festival with his friends. It’s got hayrides, a corn maze, oodles of pumpkins, lots of fun things to do…and it’s got a haunted house.
Brady is not excited for the haunted house.
But at least his crush Nick is there to give him something to think about other than his fears…
This story is an alternate universe take on Nick Porter and Brady Jensen, the main characters of A. L. Heard’s novel “Hockey Bois.” No knowledge of the source material is needed to enjoy this story.
Title: A Cup and Company
Author: A. J. Ash
F/NB, Coffee Shop Meet-Cute, the Ennui of Modern Wage Employment
Zoe hates her part-time job in telemarketing, but at least it pays the bills while she’s in graduate school, and at least it’s just down the street from the adorable Corner Café. When she stops in for pick-me-up and gets trapped in the café by a rainstorm, though, the last thing she expects is some company while she drinks her cup of rose chai latte.
PATREON EXCLUSIVE
Title: A Friendly Neighbourhood Monster Mash!
Author: J. D. Harlock
General (No Ship), Chat Room Transcript, Just How Does a Group of Monsters Agree On Where to Host a Monster Mash?
User Gill-Man, user Undead & Loathing It, user Phan-atic of the Opera, user I’m a Motherlovin’ Monsta, user Mummy’s Boy, and user Big Bad Wolfy have joined the chat for the group Monster Mash TONIGHT.
Or: a humorous take on all our favorite Hollywood classic-movie monsters debating the logistics of hosting this year’s Halloween Monster Mash.
What day is it? Release day! And have we got some steamy new stories for you. Check out our August erotica releases!
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Title: Brambles, Pollen, and Other Natural Disasters Author: A. L. Heard
M/M, Modern, 100% Certified Consensual Sex Pollen, Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining
When Nick and Brady move into an off-campus house, the landlady warns them to leave the overgrown backyard alone.
Nick expects his long-time crush on Brady to be the main issue he has to grapple with when they live together.
He does not expect the backyard to throw a wrench into their relationship.
This story is an alternate universe take on Nick Porter and Brady Jensen, the main characters of A. L. Heard’s novel “Hockey Bois.” No knowledge of the source material is needed to enjoy this story.
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Title: Close and Warm Author: Robin Mal
F/M, Established Relationship, Fluffy Loving Support for a Trans Man’s Sexual Boundaries
T has brought many changes to Max’s life and his body, but he’s been reluctant to explore the physical changes, preferring to focus on what he knows how to do well: pleasure his girlfriend Luoyu.
But when Luoyu announces, during a long, lazy afternoon, that she’d like to give him a blow job, he realizes…maybe he’s ready to let her take care of him.
At least, he’s very interested in trying…
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Title: Cecaelia Author: Dei Walker
F/F, Cruise Ship Hook Up, Half-Octopus Singer x Human Passenger, Consentacles
Halyna originally planned to go on a cruise with her girlfriend, but she’s not going to let the fact that they’ve broken up ruin her vacation, even if it means she’s now traveling solo and nursing a wounded heart.
But she might sulk, a little, over fancy drinks in the lounge.
That turns out to be a great plan, because if she hadn’t been in the lounge, she’d never heard Stella Maris’s dulcet voice, nor seen her sultry, come-hither gaze.
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Duck Prints Press has over 25 other erotic stories, set in a variety of genres and featuring a range of ship types, so come on over and check out all the sexy we have in store for you!
Happy Sunday, everyone! It’s a beautiful day to be one-third of the way through our crowdfunding campaign for Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers”and 85% funded! It’s also a beautiful day for you, oh lovely person reading this, to help us get closer to 100% by backing yourself or helping us spread the word!
Now, enjoy learning about another of our contributors – A. L. Heard, author and editor!
The Musketeer’s Daughter: The Tale of Jacques Toussaint by A. L. Heard
About the Author: A. L. Heard is an aspiring writer from Pittsburgh. She’s been writing fanworks for over a decade and self-published her first novel, Hockey Bois, in 2021. Some of her short stories have been published through the indie press Duck Prints Press, where she also contributes as an editor. Ultimately, though, she spends her free time writing about characters she adores in worlds she’d like to explore: contemporary romance, historical fiction, science fiction, and fantasy. In between writing projects, she works as a language teacher, plays hockey, tours breweries with her boyfriend, and spends her evenings playing dinosaurs with her two sons.
Story Teaser:
“I’d like to enlist,” Jacqueline stammered to the old officer at the barracks. After a week of indecision (and after secretly trying on her father’s uniform, inspecting her shape by candlelight to see if she passed as masculine), she’d finally found the courage to return.
The officer looked up, the laugh lines on his face twisting into a surprised frown as he scrutinized her. From head to toe, he examined the too-large hat and the awkward way the musket hung across her back. The sword at least was comfortably situated at her hip, though she’d had to make new holes in the belt to make it fit. Her hair was a mess, resting in a ponytail with the last few inches cut off haphazardly. The clothes were as clean as she could manage, but ill-fitting. The boots she’d purchased second hand from a cobbler made her walk with a slight limp because one was too tight.
She stood there, ramrod straight and praying. Perhaps she could claim hysteria if she were caught. What was the worst they could do? Beat her? Put her in the stocks? Send her to the mad house? Kill her?
With growing fear, she realized that those were all very real consequences of discovery.
Tags: canon compliant, death of a parent (off-screen), death of a parent (past), f/m, flirting, france, harm to animals (mentions of), historical, masquerading as a person of a different gender, micro-aggressions (misogynistic), orphan, original characters, paris, past tense, period-typical misogyny, pov third person limited, trans male character, violence (non-graphic descriptions)
Read many more excerpts, view art teasers, and learn more about the campaign by visiting Kickstarter!
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May. 13th, 2023 01:06 pm
Ready to add the spicey to your Saturday?
Meet James Willoby, eligible bachelor, whose concerns at a ball extend far past avoiding unwanted dance partners. No, of greater moment to him is the heartbreak of knowing he can't dance with the one person he'd most want to: party host Haywood Keating, who is also James's secret paramour.
Publicly being seen to enjoy Haywood's ball together is, of course, impossible. But, if they were to steal a few minutes together, might they be able to enjoy each other's company at least a little?
(this story is erotica. the answer to that question is a resounding YES.)
Get your copy of In Which James Willoby Enjoys a Ball Far More Than One Should for mutual pining finding expression in stolen minutes together against a backdrop of Victorian social restrictions!
And don't forget to check out A. L. Heard's other titles with us!
Who We Are: Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. We help fancreators publish their original (mostly queer) work! 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!
New Release: The Princess and the Maze
Apr. 22nd, 2023 11:03 am
In this new short story by A. L. Heard, a clever princess develops a plan to circumvent the misogyny in her home kingdom so that she can claim her birthright!
Check out The Princess and the Maze by A. L. Heard!
Read the tags and learn more about "The Princess and the Maze" on our Wordpress Blog!
Read other titles we've published by A. L. Heard - General Imprint | Erotica!
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Who We Are: Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. We are work 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!
Title: Princess Antonia del Montari, aka The Accidental Barista
Author: A.L. Heard
Genre: Modern with Magic
Rating: General
Relationship Type: commoner/noble, employee/customer, f/f
Character Features: royalty
Tags: attraction at first sight, coffee shop setting, first date, meet cute, mistaken identity, pov third person limited, present tense
Teaser:
“Excuse me?” someone asks from her right.
Toni startles slightly. She frowns in dismay as the coffee sloshes over the edge of one of the mugs.
Once everything’s balanced again, Toni looks over to the nearest table.
Black leather jacket, knee-high boots over dark skinny jeans, a too-loose T-shirt for a band Toni’s never heard of, and a myriad of piercings all conspire to make Toni’s heart pound in her chest and her mouth go dry. It’s only worse when she meets the woman’s eye and gets lost in caramel. She stands there, marveling at the beautiful woman so long that even Toni’s aware it’s become awkward.
Length: 10 pages/2,553
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This last Saturday of January, we’re posting the third and final of our “Snowed In” theme stories for the month – Snowbound and Love Sick, a story in which author A. L. Heard grabs the main character from her novel Hockey Bois and puts them in an alternate setting where instead, they met in college!
Title: Snowbound and Love Sick
Author: A. L. Heard
Genre: Modern, Fanwork
Series: Hockey Bois (alternate universe using the same main characters)
Rating: Explicit
Relationship: idiots to lovers, m/m
Character Features: athlete, homosexual, oblivious
Tags: alternate universe, attraction at first sight, college setting, dirty talk, first kiss, first time together, frottage, getting together, mutual pining, past tense, pov third person limited, sports (hockey)
Teaser:
Just as Nick got a pot of water on the stove for some pasta, Nick heard thundering footsteps coming up the front steps. The door swung open, and Brady walked in, snow dusting his beard and clinging to his jacket.
Brady Jensen. Ugh, where to start? They’d met at freshman orientation, when Nick had fallen hard and fast for the brooding, dark-haired, blue-eyed cutie from his dorm. Brady was tall, fit, and worst of all, smart as hell with his awful (read: hot) applied mathematics and computer science double major. Actually, scratch that. Worst of all: Brady played hockey for their school’s D1 team. Not only were athletes hot, but hockey was the be-all and end-all of sports as far as Nick was concerned. His biggest mistake had been watching Brady’s games, because d-a-m-n.
Basically, Brady was designed to be Nick’s dream guy… except that he was completely straight.
Length: 21 pages/7,706 words
Price: $1.99 USD
Warm up the January chill (or, for those in the southern hemisphere, add some steamy to a summer night) with this all-new short story by A. L. Heard!
Can’t get enough “Snowed-In” stories? Check out “Best Friends AND…” by Tris Lawrence and “A Mutual Interest” by Alec J. Marsh!
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? Want to make sure you don’t miss the announcement for future giveaways? Sign up for our monthly newsletter and get previews, behind-the-scenes information, coupons, and more!
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This week, we present our fourth and final “Eerie Animal” tie in story!
Title: The Offered Ones
Author: A. L. Heard
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: General Audiences
Trigger Warnings: body horror, harm to children
Relationship: found family
Character Features: animal, animal transformation (involuntary), bird, non-human character
Tags: animal point of view, body modification (involuntary), pov third person limited, sentient animal
Teaser:
There was a girl sleeping in Forest.
Fox didn’t know the girl. She was a human, that much was clear, though he hadn’t seen her kind in ages. They traveled this way and that like they owned the whole world—he had seen many before—but most stayed away from Forest. They were blind, deaf, dumb creatures, unable to perceive what was in front of them. Still, they sensed the magic of Forest, so they stayed away. If they did wander into the dense line of oak and pine, they spoke in hushed voices and didn’t linger.
They certainly didn’t sleep in Forest.
Length: 17 pages/6,400 words
Price: 99 cents US
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Can’t get enough Eerie Fall stories? Check out the other three theme stories: “Widow’s Black” by Nina Waters; “Campfire Stories” by Nicola Kapron; and “A Shield For the People” by Puck Malamud.
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Do you love A. L. Heard’s work? Have you read Hockey Bois and can’t get enough of Brady and Nick? Well, this month’s fluff story – free to all our monthly backers on Patreon and Ko-fi – is a Hockey Bois high school AU straight from the source!
Title: Brady Jensen vs. Haunted Houses
Author: A. L. Heard
Genre: Modern
Rating: General Audiences
Relationship: M/M
Character Features: character feature: athlete, character feature: high school student, profession: hockey player
Tags: alternate universe, fanworks, first kiss, friends to lovers, halloween, past tense, pov third person limited, setting: high school, setting: haunted house, setting: sports
This work is an alternate universe take on the characters in A. L. Heard’s stand-alone novel Hockey Bois, which is currently available on Amazon and will be available on the Duck Prints Press website in the next few months.
Teaser:
“Don’t give me that look,” Gail teased. “Just because your crush texts me and not you doesn’t mean you should be jealous.”
Brady offered her a constipated smile and let her pull him through the crowd. He didn’t argue with her, and he was thankful she’d misunderstood his unease. Yes, he was a little jealous about the Nick thing. Brady’s crush on Nick was well known to their teammates even though Nick (thankfully) remained unaware. Over the years they’d played together on the ice, Brady had never worked up the courage to ask him out.
But no, that wasn’t why his hands were clammy and butterflies danced in his belly. The unfortunate truth was… Brady didn’t like haunted houses.
This story is a free bonus to all our monthly backers, no matter their backing level – and our monthly backers get a new short story every month! And, if you back now, you can also get access to all nineteen short, fluff stories we’ve posted for our backers since our Patreon and ko-fi started!
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Title: Brady Jensen vs. Haunted Houses
Author: A. L. Heard
Genre: Modern
Rating: General Audiences
Relationship: M/M
Character Features: character feature: athlete, character feature: high school student, profession: hockey player
Tags: alternate universe, fanworks, first kiss, friends to lovers, halloween, past tense, pov third person limited, setting: high school, setting: haunted house, setting: sports
This work is an alternate universe take on the characters in A. L. Heard’s stand-alone novel Hockey Bois, which is currently available on Amazon and will be available on the Duck Prints Press website in the next few months.
Teaser:
“Don’t give me that look,” Gail teased. “Just because your crush texts me and not you doesn’t mean you should be jealous.”
Brady offered her a constipated smile and let her pull him through the crowd. He didn’t argue with her, and he was thankful she’d misunderstood his unease. Yes, he was a little jealous about the Nick thing. Brady’s crush on Nick was well known to their teammates even though Nick (thankfully) remained unaware. Over the years they’d played together on the ice, Brady had never worked up the courage to ask him out.
But no, that wasn’t why his hands were clammy and butterflies danced in his belly. The unfortunate truth was… Brady didn’t like haunted houses.
This story is a free bonus to all our monthly backers, no matter their backing level – and our monthly backers get a new short story every month! And, if you back now, you can also get access to all nineteen short, fluff stories we’ve posted for our backers since our Patreon and ko-fi started!
AND you’ll get lots of other awesome benefits too!
