Duck Prints Press LLC

01/16/2025

Long time, no creator interview! We're back with some Q&A with author Vee Sloane, who has been working with DPP since our second anthology. Read all about them: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/16/creator-interview-vee-sloane/

01/12/2025

It's Letter Writing Week! Did you know we have an entirely epistolary short story? "The Last Letters of Mrs. Victoria Holmwood" by Nina Waters tells the story of an elderly widow who discovers a time machine and decides to change the past. Learn more about it: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/12/an-epistolary-tale-for-letter-writing-week/

01/11/2025

Long time, no grammar posting! I got an ask on Tumblr about grammar surrounding ellipse usage. If you've ever wanted to know way too much about my thoughts on this topic, check it out: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/11/answered-asks-grammar-and-ellipses/

01/10/2025

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01/09/2025

We love words at Duck Prints Press, and we also love that words have a special, dedicated day when we can babble about how much we love them! Last year, we shared some of our favorite words. This year, we focused on words we’ve used in our stories and how we’ve (hopefully correctly!) used them. Contributors were asked to tell us one word they loved, and share with us a sentence from their own work in which they used the word. Ready to meet some cool words? Read on!

01/09/2025

We love words at Duck Prints Press, and we also love that words have a special, dedicated day when we can babble about how much we love them! Today is Word Nerd Day. Last year, we shared some of our favorite words. This year, we focused on words we’ve used in our stories and how we’ve (hopefully correctly!) used them. Contributors were asked to tell us one word they loved, and share with us a sentence from their own work in which they used the word. Ready to meet some cool words?

01/07/2025

Check out our December creator's spotlight! These monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight work have done that ISN’T linked to Duck Prints Press. We include fanworks, outside publications, and anything else that creators feel like sharing with y’all. Inclusion is voluntary and includes anything that they decided “hey, I want to put this on the created work’s round-up!” https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/07/created-works-round-up-december-2024/

01/06/2025

2025 has just began, but our bookworm hearts are already looking ahead to the books coming out this year! We asked our contributors what upcoming reads they’re most excited for and we gathered a list of 20 titles - some with covers not yet revealed. See the full list: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/06/our-most-anticipated-q***r-releases-of-2025/

01/05/2025

Exciting news, everyone! Duck Prints Press is now accepting applications from authors interested in contributing to our next erotica anthology. Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling will feature 15 stories, each up to 7,500 words, focused on how monsters court and bed their bedmates! We want your beasts, your creatures, your cryptids, your part-humans; we want them to have genitalia unusual and exotic; and we want to see how they pursue a liaison, in the streets and in the sheets. Read all about it: https://duckprintspress.com/monsterotica-tales-of-unusual-courtship-and-coupling/

01/03/2025

Today, January 3rd, is J.R.R. Tolkien Day—the day we celebrate the legend’s birthday. It’s hard to imagine the fantasy genre without Tolkien’s influence on it. That’s why, we figured, what better way to celebrate than by having an adventure with an awesome fantasy book? And, as this is the first time we’ve done a q***r fantasy rec list, our reccing crew got very excited, with the result that this is one of the longest lists we’ve ever posted. Check out our 54 (!!) q***r book recs: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/03/celebrate-j-r-r-tolkiens-birthday-with-54-q***r-fantasy-books/

01/02/2025

Today, January 2nd, is National Science Fiction Day. To celebrate, we asked DPP contributors what their favorite q***r sci-fi reads are and we ended up with a list 18 awesome books! Recommendations made by Sebastian Marie, Shadaras, Mikki Madison, , , , Alex, Dei Walker, an anonymous contributor.

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Aether Beyond the Binary Anthology
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Unconquerable Sun by Kate Elliott
Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
Little Mushroom by Yi Shi Si Zhou
Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
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01/02/2025

Today, January 2nd, is National Science Fiction Day. To celebrate, we asked DPP contributors what their favorite q***r sci-fi reads are and we ended up with a list 18 awesome books! Check out the full list, with links, here: https://duckprintspress.com/2025/01/02/18-recommendations-for-national-science-fiction-day/

01/01/2025

12/31/2024

Duck Prints Press is thrilled to share that recruitment for our next anthology will be opening this Sunday, January 5th! Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling will feature 15 stories, each up to 7,500 words long, about monsters and their lovers – and what wooing behaviors get them from the streets to the sheets! Visit our webpage to learn the deets: https://duckprintspress.com/monsterotica-tales-of-unusual-courtship-and-coupling/

12/30/2024

We’ve had a busy year at Duck Prints Press – we published two anthologies, a novella, a novel, and moved many other projects along. 46 short stories also debuted to our Patreon as new releases exclusively available to our backers. And we didn’t only create books – our Mythical Creature Pride pins and stickers were a flagship art project for the year, and we’ve released 5 monthly art pieces exclusive to our Patrons. HAPPY NEW YEAR! https://duckprintspress.com/2024/12/30/a-year-with-duck-prints-press-our-2024-publications/

12/30/2024

12/28/2024

Duck Prints Press is planning two merchandise/art campaigns for the first half of 2025, and we’d love your help! Project 1 is "Fannish warning signs" by Xianyu Zhou; project 2 is "Pride dragons" by Flore Picard. Do you like them? Do you have Opinions about them? Take our survey and tell us what you think! https://duckprintspress.com/resources/duck-prints-press-forms/2025-artist-project-preference-poll/

12/26/2024

Want to win an easy reading challenge? Then we’ve got the challenge for you: all you need to do is read one (1) q***r book anytime in 2025 and log it with the challenge, and you’ll win our q***r book challenge! Once you have done that, the fun begins: we’ve got 39 other themed prompts related to common tropes, character representation, author demographics, and more! You can also add books to each category, see what other participants are reading, and find some inspiration to expand your to-be-read pile. https://duckprintspress.com/2024/12/26/read-q***r-in-2025-a-storygraph-reading-challenge/