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Photograph of three books laid out side by side. Text reads NOW AVAILABLE! The TWINNED Trilogy by Tris Lawrence. The books are Commit to the Kick, featuring a white man in a football jersey with a dragon and bear rearing behind him; Missed Fortunes, featuring a woman and a man tumbling from an exploding, burning stone tower; and Into the Split, showing a man and woman from the back as they look into the depths of a night-dark forest.

E-books and print editions of the entire Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence are now available in our webstore and from your favorite booksellers and libraries! Leftover merchandise from our crowdfunding campaign earlier this year is also listed on our website.

Learn more from the book blurbs, check tags, read free samples of each book’s first chapter, and more by visiting our shop listings for each book!

Looking for leftover PHU-themed merchandise? We’ve got that too!

Backed the campaigns, read the books, and want more? Don’t miss out on the side stories by Tris Lawrence, and you can also read much, much more at Welcome to PHU.



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

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

SHORT STORIES

Title: Flight Plans
Author: Max Jason Peterson

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

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

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

Available to all backers of the Duck Prints Press Patreon!

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Title: Ex as in Expired
Author: Nicola Kapron

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

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

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

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Title: Flying Fish
Author: Lyonel Loy

gen, the inspirational power of friendship, disabled main character

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Title: Snow Day Memories
Author: Merlin Grey

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

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

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

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

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Title: Penis Pals
Author: Imogen Cuppaggio

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

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

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

Because of the nudity.

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

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ARTWORK:

October Patreon Artwork: Forever Halloween
Artist: Max Jason Peterson

The shared image is a crop of the full artwork.

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

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PATREON PANEL:

Title: Writing Tools and Techniques

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

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

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

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A crop of the cover of The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver. It shows the title in bright red text against a stark black background, the top part of a skull in grayscale relief beside it. Near the bottom, the black ends as if torn away, to reveal two indistinct lines of text below.

Our latest novelette, The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver, is an eerie explicit guro story about two men with a long-nurtured rivalry and what happens when the deceptions between them finally fall away.

For as long as he can remember, Kai has hated Sakuya. Sakuya is better than him in every subject, every sport, and every hobby they’ve both tried, and people actually like Sakuya, even though his charming smiles are fake as hell.

So when they both sign up for a multi-day mountain hike, Kai seizes the chance to expose Sakuya’s true colours.

But when the hike goes wrong and the two of them are stranded in a liminal space, one too injured to move and the other slowly succumbing to the corruption in the air, their obsession with each other is the only thing they have left.

Their tattered humanity won’t survive the agony of authenticity.

Available now in print and e-book formats on the Duck Prints Press webpage!



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A book cover. Against a black background, red text that reads The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver stands out starkly. The page has been laid out as if torn in half, and through the torn part, text from the story is revealed with a few words also in bright red. A skull bare of flesh surrounds the torn section, the top of the skull above the tear and the jaw below.

Thrilled to reveal the cover for our newest novelette, The Agony of Authenticity, an explicit mlm rivals-to-lovers horror story coming out on Halloween. If you like your protagonists unhinged and your porn bloody, make sure you check it out!

For as long as he can remember, Kai has hated Sakuya. Sakuya is better than him in every subject, every sport, and every hobby they’ve both tried, and people actually like Sakuya, even though his charming smiles are fake as hell.

So when they both sign up for a multi-day mountain hike, Kai seizes the chance to expose Sakuya’s true colours.

But when the hike goes wrong and the two of them are stranded in a liminal space, one too injured to move and the other slowly succumbing to the corruption in the air, their obsession with each other is the only thing they have left.

Their tattered humanity won’t survive the agony of authenticity.

The Agony of Authenticity by Lyn Weaver is already available for folks to request on Libby, and you can pre-order the e-book from the retailer of your choice – or, you can buy it direct from us in e-book format OR print starting October 31st! Subscribe to our Duxxx Prints Press newsletter to get notified when it’s available.

Cover design by Rascal Hartley.




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Every month, we release five short stories, an art piece, and conduct a convention-style panel for our backers on Patreon. What backers have access to depends on their backer level, with $3/month backers only getting access to a single story and $25/month backers getting access to everything, with our intermediate levels – $5/month, $7/month, and $10/month – getting intermediate amounts. These releases are in addition to behind-the-scenes access, voting rights on anthology themes, exclusive coupons, extra merch, and the many other benefits we offer our supports on Patreon. Read on to learn about what we released on Patreon in August 2025!

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Aurora by æonswinter

Access to viewing the full artwork available to backers at the $5/month and $7/month levels; access to print-suitable download available to backers at the $10/month and $25/month levels.

æonswinter had this to say about the inspiration for this piece: “The figures in this painting are doing doubles hammock. For this trick, the two aerialists run in a circle on the ground before inverting into the air, reaching out towards each other. The painting captures the moment before their hands meet—the moment before contact, before connection. The base color of each figure and each hammock was sampled from the colors of the trans flag. The shadows and highlights on the blue figure and fabric were done in variations of that pink, and the shadows and highlights on the pink figure and fabric were done in variations of that blue.”

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Nycticorax by S. J. Ralston

Available to backers at the $7/month level and higher.
Genre: Tragic Science Fiction with Super Powers
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 28 pages/9,925 words

Excerpt: Nycticorax turned to the control panel at his right hand and punched in the coordinates: the southeastern shore of Lake Huron, July 23rd, 1834 CE. He checked his safety measures, pointed to each status light to confirm its greenness, and ensured the Third Law Allocation was set to DISTRIBUTED. With a deep breath, he put his thumb over the button labelled ACTIVATE.

He hesitated.

There was an extremely slight but also extremely real possibility that pressing that button would instantaneously kill 2.8 million people—Nycticorax among them.

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Like it Sharp by E. V. Dean

Available to all Patreon backers.
Genre: Modern
Rating: Explicit
Length: 25 pages/9,979 words

Excerpt: Green and purple lights dance on the stainless steel of her knife, her grip agile, motions swift, like she was born with it in her palm. The chop-chop-chop against the wooden board cuts through the muted thumping of Avicii from the living room. She’s not quite the Iron Chef, but the blade’s her best friend.

Kathy can’t take her eyes off it. The rest of the kitchen is spinning around her, and she’s found her anchor. The skilled arm is attached to the woman Kathy’s been swooning over the whole evening from afar, like a school girl with a crush.

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Starstruck, Adrift by Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec

Available to backers at the $25/month level.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 19 pages/6,913 words

Excerpt: Penny had seen a lot of things in her time aboard the UNS Bridget. She’d seen her fair share of alien worlds and new ways to travel during her fourteen years of service. This, however, was not something she had previously encountered.

“This” being the large mechanical dragon hovering outside the windows at the bow of the ship. And when she said “mechanical,” she meant completely sentient, made of metal, stuff-she’d-seen-in-comics-and-movies mechanical. Not an animatronic. Not a puppet. Fully realized robotic life.

Flying outside the spaceship. In space.

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August Patreon Panel: How to Work Worldbuilding Into the Narrative

The recording of this panel is available to backers at the $7/month level and higher.

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

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

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Whispers Through the Leaves by Johnathan Stern

Available to backers at the $10/month level and higher.
Genre: Horror
Rating: General Audience
Length: 8 pages/2,394 words

Excerpt: The pressure had dropped.

Gray clouds were gathering in the sky to the west, and the faint breeze that whistled through the windows of your car was picking up speed.

A storm was coming, of that you were almost certain.

It never hurt to check, though, and so you reached over to the center console to turn on your radio. Far from home as you were, your presets would assuredly be useless, and sure enough, pressing the first one tuned into nothing but the scratch of static. Playing with the dial, you scrolled through perhaps a dozen stations and frequencies before you found the first live human voice. 

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Business is Blooming by Genevieve Maxwell

Available to backers at the $5/month level and higher.
Genre: Fluffy Modern Romance
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 12 pages/3,740 words

Excerpt: “What in the world?” Hester’s voice trailed off as she approached her doorstep, frowning at the potted plant sitting on the doormat. Hester wasn’t much of a plant person. Or a keeping-things-alive-besides-herself person. The plant had flowers, which at least were pretty. Did someone send her flowers? But why a living plant instead of a bouquet? Why leave it at all instead of giving it to her directly?

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Not a backer? Looking for even more stories, artwork, and more? We’re also thrilled to share that now, all Patreon-exclusive works now become available, six months after they were originally posted, in our Patreon shop. If there’s an author you love, a work you missed, a type of story you’re on the hunt for – come take a look. There are 65 works in the shop, and we add more every month!



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The front cover of a book entitled The Salt in the Sea by J. D. Rivers. Stylized artwork shows two men in a loose embrace, one shorter, light-skinned, and pale-haired, the taller one dark haired and darker skinned, both in casual modern-esque clothes. The taller one kisses the shorter one on the forehead, his hand clasping the shorter one's cheek. They stand before a blood-red circle with a star on it, and a brilliant blue wave surges behind them.

J. D. Rivers’s novella The Salt in the Sea, successfully crowdfunded earlier this year, is now available to everyone through duckprintspress.com, major book retailers, libraries, and can (probably) be ordered through your local bookstore of choice!

A downtrodden ex-soldier.

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

A lost inn-owner.

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

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

A dead body in a post office.

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

Get your hands on this bittersweet mlm fantasy story of missed opportunities and second chances today!

Leftover campaign merchandise is also available! We’ve got the front cover art as an art print and as a bookmark, and you can also get a lovely scented candle from Speculative Wicktion.

Follow the author J. D. Rivers on social media: Personal Website | Bluesky

Learn more about the cover artist planetsandmagic: Bluesky | Tumblr | Twitter

Want to get this book AND support an awesome indie publisher? Backers of our Patreon at the $7/month level and higher can get our publications as freebies – including this one! Become a high-level backer today and get this book at no additional cost.


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

Over the winter, we successfully crowdfunded our third Queer Fanworks Inspired by… anthology, and now that we’ve completed fulfillment for the original campaign backers, we’re delighted to bring this wonderful collection, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”, available to all!

Blurb:

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover!

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudicequeers up this classic with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks. 38 creators contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from the story and characters in Jane Austen’s enduring romantic classic to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works.

Grab your reticule, don your favorite cravat, pour yourself some fragrant tea, and join us!

This book is now available in e-book (ePub and PDF) and trade paperback (a jumbo A4 size!) on the Duck Prints Press webpage.

We’re also able to offer leftovers of several of our merchandise offerings, including:

You can learn more about this wonderful collection, and get your own copy, by visiting our webpage now!

Alternatively, order it from your preferred retailer and/or get it from your library – check the list of other places that offer our books! Though note that the only way to get the full-color print edition is directly from the Press.



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

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

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


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Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

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General Imprint Short Story Releases

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Explicit Imprint Short Story Releases

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Original Art Releases

A crop of a larger piece of artwork. It shows a dainty hand reaching toward water, where the reflection emerges from the water as a larger hand clad in armor.

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

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October Patron Panel

Why Tell Stories?

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

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

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

Want to get information like this right into your e-mail? Sign up for our newsletter!

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

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

Now Available:


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

Get your book and merch TODAY!

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

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



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A graphic mosaic of six square book covers, entitled"New Short Story Releases from Duck Prints Press!" The books are: Telemachy by Willa Blythe, Junk by J. D. Harlock, The Deadman's Gambit by Nicola Kapron, In Fine Feather by Violet J. Hayes, On Campaign by Dei Walker, and then, too, at sea by ilgaksu.

Duck Prints Press currently releases our single-author non-anthology short stories solely to our Patreon. The higher one backs, the more stories one gets! Not only do backers get access to our new releases based on their backer level, but they also get access to the entire back catalog of short stories we’ve published to Patreon! That means that someone who becomes a new backer at the $3/month level RIGHT NOW would instantly receive access to 41 short stories. Yes, $3 for 41 stories! Higher levels get even more; at our highest level, $25/month backers who subscribe now automatically gain access to 100 short stories and two exclusive art pieces. That’s a whole lot of awesome queer tales to read and art to view, so check it out, and read on to learn more about this month’s releases!

New General Imprint Titles

New Explicit Imprint Titles

  • On Campaign by Dei Walker. Lilya and Maret return in this stand-alone story set some months after the events of Clerical Error. War is hell; intimacy can be a much-needed break and chance to provide mutual comfort in this f/f fantasy erotica short story. Available to Patreon backers at the $5/month level and above.
  • then, too, at sea by ilgaksu. A young lighthouse keeper rescues an injured seal who washes up on the banks below his lighthouse, and discovers the seal is more than he appeared to be. Available to ALL Patreon backers!

September Backer-Reward Art Piece

A square crop of a larger art piece showing a person with pointed ears, light skin, and blue hair touching noses with an orange and blue cat-like creature.

Artist: May Barros
Title: Magic Friendship

May Barros brings us their vision of aroace solidarity and friendship in this sweet piece of two dear friends in a magical setting.

Viewing Access ($5/month and $7/month backers) | Viewing and Download Access ($10/month and $25/month backers)


Become a Patreon backer today, get a ton of amazing stuff!!



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August has seen us releasing several new works – a short story on our webpage, four more short stories on our Patreon, and an original artwork on Patreon. Have you been considering backing our Patreon as part of the August Patreon drive but weren’t sure what you’d get? Read on for some examples of the awesomeness available to backers – or, if backing on Patreon isn’t your cup of tea, pop over to our website and buy a copy of our latest short story release!

New Patreon backers during the month of August may claim freebie Duck Prints Press merchandise worth up to $5! Read all about this promotion in this blog post: https://duckprintspress.com/2024/08/01/duck-prints-press-needs-you-become-a-patron-get-a-freebie-reblog-enter-a-giveaway/

Rather than subjecting y'all to a post this long, which will be poorly formatted on DW, here's the link to this post on our Wordpress blog. <3

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Duck Prints Press is thrilled to share that we’ve released books and merchandise from our recently completed projects for sale in our webstore! Missed a crowdfunding campaign? Finding out about us for the first? See something you want? Come on over and pick up our anthologies, merch, pride creatures, and more! Here’s the full list of what’s now available!

Add Magic to Taste 2nd Edition:

This second edition of our debut anthology includes 18 stories (instead of the original 20) and also includes all 16 “mini-morsels” originally published as our Kickstarter stretch goal mini-book. The original version is also still available as an e-book.

Aether Beyond the Binary:

Mythical Pride Creature Die-Cut Stickers and Enamel Pins:

The creatures who have names were dubbed these titles by Kickstarter backers who purchased our name-a-beast bundle!

…and more!

There’s actually only one new “and more” item, but there’s lots of other awesome books and merchandise in our store!

Add Magic to Taste 2nd Edition and Aether Beyond the Binary are also both now available through e-book distribution channels, including many libraries and major retailers! The print-on-demand editions through retailers and local bookstores are pending, as our print-on-demand vendor STILL hasn’t delivered the print proofs for our approval. They’ll be up shortly.

Visit duckprintspress.com/shop NOW!

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Did you know? So far this April, Duck Prints Press has put out 10, yes t.e.n., new short stories? Two to our website, and eight to our Patreon! Learn all about them now...

Website Releases

F/F, Science Fiction, Meet Cute on Mars

Addison is browsing the stacks of the Valles Marineris Coprates Chasma University Memorial Library when she's shocked to find someone looking for the same obscure book about the history of space travel that is.

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F/M and M/M to F/M/M, Urban Paranormal, Confessions of Mutual Attraction, When in Doubt Fuck it Out

Flo is consistently frustrated with how her boyfriend Arthur's bodyguard Kacen is always watching her suspiciously. But when she discovers Arthur and Kacen in bed together, it casts a whole new light on the relationships between the three of them, and Flo finds herself considering possibilities that had never dawned on her before.

Patreon Releases

F/F, Contemporary Romance with a Splash of Magic, Bookshop-slash-Coffee-Shop Meet-Cute, Heat Resistance for the Win

Valentine's day is invariably a disaster for Nissa. And when she starts this Valentine's work day by spilling coffee all over a new customer?

Maybe she should have just stayed in bed this morning.

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F/NB, Fantasy, Dating Royalty is Hard Even if Your Stepmother Isn't Evil, Attraction at First Sight, Getting to Know One Another

Going to the ball was Marienne's dream, but it still never occurred to her that she'd catch the eye of the Royal Heir Apparent. Their dance is a dream come true, and their walk around the gardens together helps demonstrate they could have a future together even putting perfect first-dances aside, but that doesn't mean things will be easy.

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F/F (Pre-Relationship), Fantasy, the Inherent Eroticism of Being Competing Mercenaries After the Same Mark (and the Same Pay Day)

Usually, Kella wouldn't take a job from a tiny podunk town in exchange for the risks of facing wyvern, but they're offering 25 gold pieces, and that's too much to resist. She doesn't expect the job to be that hard - it's not her first time facing a wyvern - but she also doesn't expect competition, in the form of a stubborn mage who has been hired by the same town at the same rate. But what she really doesn't expect is the wyvern...

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F/F, Contemporary Romance, Meet-Awkward, Sometimes the Only Difference Between Fighting and Flirting is Point of View

Every Saturday morning, before the crack of dawn, Dee goes to the laundromat to do her laundry alone and in the quiet, with her pick of the available machines.

Until the morning she's not alone anymore.

Truly, she doesn't know what's worse: the loss of her solitude, or that this intruder has taken the biggest washer.

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Title: Fool's Gold Author: Eliot Lovell

M/M (Pre-Relationship), Fantasy, Dragon Hordes and Lifelong Dreams, Hurt/Comfort

When Tomas sets off to defeat a dragon, he does so despite the aches and pains of growing older and a bum hip. Little does he expect that his attempt to be a valiant hero will be derailed prematurely when he's set upon by wolves. After they leave him unconscious in the woods, the last thing he expects is to be rescued and nursed to help. But he has one burning question: who found him, and why?

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Title: Escape Author: Sanne Burg

F/M + F/M Established Relationship with Partner Swapping, Contemporary Romance, Middle-Aged Characters, Friends with Benefits to Lovers

Anxiety means that it doesn't take much to push Liam into needing some quiet time to himself, and he's so appreciative of his wife Alice taking the initiative to get him that quiet time.

He's slightly less appreciative when their friends-with-benefits partner-swap married friends Dan and Lola show up, especially considering that it was finding RPF fanart of him and Dan having sex that triggered Liam's anxiety in the first place...

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M/M, Fantasy, Omega/Omega, Middle-Aged Characters, Bonding Over Shared Favorite (Rape Fantasy) Books

No one in their right mind would name Isemund king, but he's the only heir left, and so the council names him and then flees before the conqueror Caith can seize the castle.

Isemund is prepared to die at the hands of the invader.

Caith has other plans in mind.

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Title: Georgia Rain Author: R. L. Houck This is a sequel to the Patreon-exclusive story "Pretty 7 Days a Week"

F/NB, Contemporary Suspense, Reunion after a Long Separation, They Work Hard for the Money, You'll Never Guess How This Sex Romp Gets Interrupted...

Four years after the events of Pretty 7 Days a Week, Tomas, who has changed their name to Aster, has built themself a new, better life no longer working on the streets.

The last thing they expect is for Lydia to come sweeping back into their life. It's also the last thing they want...or so they keep trying to tell themself...

So, Looking for New Queer Short Stories to Read? Visit Our Webstore and Become a Patreon Backer Now!


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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!



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!

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For December’s webstore releases, Duck Prints Press is bringing two formerly Patreon-exclusive stories to our Duxxx Prints Press webstore!

Title: Weather the Storm
Author: Lyn Weaver

Dystopian Capitalist Sci-Fi Setting, M/M, Dubious Consent, Body Horror, Pseudo-Selfcest, Genuinely Impossible to Tag

Ever since the conceptual entity Cerberus consumed part of Rain, Rain has straddled the line between being a human and being a creature of the reality-adjacent Mirror. Even worse, Cerberus hungers still; everywhere Rain goes, Cerberus is sure to follow eventually. Still, this has its advantages: when Rain goes to sabotage an LG Corp factory, having Cerberus show up ensures the factory will be destroyed so thoroughly that it’ll never operate again.

Knowing that won’t help Rain get through his encounter with the not-exactly-a-dog creature again, though. Maybe he’ll finally find out why Cerberus keeps pursuing him…

Lyn Weaver is the author of the popular Sunrise in the Black Forest ‘verse, which includes both explicit and general imprint titles. Weather the Storm is the first explicit title she’s written with Duck Prints Press outside that verse. The second, and most recent, is What Monsters Need, and is currently exclusive to our Patreon backers.


Title: Adventures of the Scarlet Sentinel: After Dark
Author: Samantha M. Piper

Modern Fluff, F/F, Established Relationship, the Inherent Eroticism of Roleplaying as a Superhero and the Civilian they are Desperate to Protect

The curtains billowed outward gracefully onto the patio in the soft night breeze like ghosts reaching out for justice as she made her way through the shadows. It was well past midnight and not a soul was around, but stealth was a second skin to someone in her profession. Darkness was the only ally she could trust...

…or so Frankie thinks tonight, as she and her wife Nadia spend this evening of their vacation roleplaying as the Scarlet Sentinel and Dr. Sharon Zenith finally setting costumes aside and giving in to desire.

This is Samantha M. Piper’s second title with Duck Prints Press. The first, Easier Than Expected, debuted our “they had it coming” tag…

Looking for some steamy this December? You’ve come to the right place! Come on over to duckprintspress.com and check out these explicit titles and many more!

Want even more spice this season? Become a backer of our Patreon, and you can immediately access THIRTY FOUR explicit titles, including both of today’s webstore releases!



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November marks the first month when all of Duck Prints Press’s new short story releases are direct to Patreon!

How do short story releases now work?

Formerly, we published two short stories to Patreon and between four and eight short stories to our website each month. However, after considering the purchasing patterns of our customers and Patreon backers, we’ve decided to consolidate these releases and only publish short stories to Patreon (and authors are paid a lump sum instead of royalties). We will aim for six stories a month, though may sometimes publish more if we didn’t hit our target in a previous month (for example, we didn’t publish six in October, so we are publishing an extra in November). The level at which each story is released is determined randomly. What level people back at determines how many stories they receive each month!

All Backers: receive one general imprint short story per month
All backers at the $5/month level and up: receive one additional general imprint short per month
All backers at the $7/month level and up: receive one additional general imprint short story + one explicit imprint short story per month
All backers at the $10/month level and up: receive one additional story per month, which may be from either imprint
$25/month backers: receive all short stories we release every month!

Put another way, $3/month = 1 story; $5/month = 2 stories; $7/month = 4 stories; $10/month = 5 stories; and $25/month = 6 stories.

This is in addition to all the other backer rewards we offer, such as behinds-the-scenes access, Discord membership, webstore discounts, free merchandise, bonus stories, and more!

November General Imprint Releases


Title: The Lightkeeper and the Sea
Author: Zel Howland

F/NB, Eerie Fantasy with a Healthy Splash of Dark Humor, End-of-Life Decisions, Corporations are Evil Actually, Ambiguous Ending

The elderly Lightkeeper of Beaufort Spire is suffering from terminal cancer, so a representative from RIXACOM Corp comes to the lighthouse to discuss the contractual obligations related to her death. Unbeknownst to the corporate crony, though, there is a third presence in Beaufort Spire on this fateful day…

Available to Backers at the $5/month level and up!


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Title: Sarisa
Author: N. C. Farrell

Friendship Between the Like-Minded, Bigender Main Character who Uses She/Her and He/Him Pronouns, Mecha and Space Battles

Lu and the crew of maintenance workers she leads in maintaining the mecha Sarisa have been waiting for sometime for Sarisa’s new pilot to be ready to take the mecha’s helm.

Today, Carina arrives.

Lu was expecting someone like the previous pilot who died in the line of duty; he was not expecting Carina.

Available to Backers at the $7/month level and up!


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Title: Pour One Out
Author: A. J. Ash

Two M/M Relationships, All Book Characters Can Hang Out Together Metafiction, Two Fictional Men Commiserate While Their Other Halves are Elsewhere, Characters Critiquing the Authors Who Created Them

Whenever Adam and the love of his life Silas aren’t inhabiting the book By Mage’s Might, they hang out in the Between Place for some relaxation and downtime, and even some time apart. For example, this evening Silas is at a weight-lifting meet-up, so Adam goes to hang out at his favorite bar.

There’s someone in his seat.

Available to All Patreon Backers!


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Title: The Wayward Timekeeper
Author: Terra P. Waters

M/M, Questing Together, First Meeting to Lovers, Immortality and Gods and Godly Offspring (Oh My!)

Tanyl is the oldest uncapped cleric among all his siblings, the child of Father Death and the Summer Queen. Frustrated that he hasn’t had a chance to prove himself, he awaits the return of his mother from the Underrealm and the mission that will bring him: caring for and rearing the infant she is pregnant with.

It should be an easy mission to earn him his cap, the recognition of adulthood he deserves at his age.

But when the spring equinox comes, and the Summer Queen is supposed to return from the Underrealm, the God Gate instead sits silent and empty.

Available to Backers at the $10/month level and up!


November Explicit Imprint Releases


Title: Orchidelirium
Author: Dei Walker

F/F/M, Reunited Lovers, Wealthy Regency Society and the Associated Norms, Consensual Aphrodisiac Consumption

Beatrice’s mother is determined that Beatrice must make a good match before the end of the Season. All Beatrice wants is to get through the last few weeks of social engagements without bringing scandal down on her family.

Three unexpected discoveries in the wilds of Lord Penrose’s hothouse threaten Beatrice’s efforts to maintain an uneventful social presence… but when all is said and done, she can’t say she really minds…

Available to Backers at the $7/month level and up!


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Title: What Monsters Need
Author: Lyn Weaver
This story is a make-up for October.

M/M, Dubious Consent, Vampire Point of View with Vampiric Self-Esteem Issues, Sparring Gets Sexual

Lazarus Blythe loves his sister, but sometimes her antics frustrate him and bring him nothing but trouble. Like now, for example, when her seduction of a woman led to the murder of that woman’s husband. Now monster hunters have come knocking on Lazarus’s door looking for Leona. The interruption of his usual daily activities is annoying, but the chance to fight, and win, and prove himself against a member of the powerful Albrecht monster hunter clans?

The arrival of that opportunity on his doorstep, in the form of a blond, burly brick of a man, brings him nothing but excitement.

Available to Backers at the $7/month level and up!


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Title: Pretty 7 Days a Week
Author: R. L. Houck

F/F/F/M/NB and Permutations There Of, BIPOC Characters, Everyone Has Sex With Everyone, Non-Binary Sex Worker Point of View, Pretty Woman Vibes

When Lydia texts Tomas to arrange for an overnight liaison with them, they’re excited. Lydia is their favorite client, and they’ve never gotten to spend the night before.

That excitement fades when they arrive and discover three other people in Lydia’s hotel room.

But, with some TLC and sexy times spread liberally between the five people present, perhaps Tomas can recover those happier feelings, and advance their hope that Lydia will like them enough to keep them…

Available to Backers at the $25/month level!


 

So become a Duck Prints Press Supporter on Patreon, and let the Reading Commence!

And don’t forget – pre-orders are still running for the m/m sports romance Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard – make sure you come by our campaign page, learn all about the book and merchandise, and order your copy NOW!


 
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Our sole November short story release is the charming Waiting for the Tide to Turn by Genevieve Maxwell! This fluffy f/f friends-to-lovers short story is a great dose of hot, sunny weather as we endure the vagaries of the fall shift toward (depending on where we live) very cold or very hot.

Title: Waiting for the Tide to Turn

Author: Genevieve Maxwell

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Rating: General Audiences

Relationship: f/f, friends to lovers

Tags: beach setting, first kiss, fluff, getting together, mutual pining, past tense, romantic getaway

Length: 11 pages/2,679 words

Teaser:

“That looks so romantic.”

Liv smiled. If heart-eyes were possible on a real human being, that’s exactly what Caro’s were doing now. “It does look romantic,” Liv agreed, gesturing at the scene on the television of a couple kissing passionately as the surf swirled around them.

“Is it?”

“Is it what?”

“Romantic?”

Visit the Duck Prints Press shop now, and grab your copy – or become a Patreon backer to read it AND over fifty other stories!

Also, have you been waiting for a deal before you buy our stories? Wait no longer, for your moment has come! All our old stories are now available in book bundles. Check out our General Imprint Bundles and our Explicit Imprint Bundles – a great way to get lots of awesome stories for not a lot of money!

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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:

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!

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