𝖛𝖆𝖒𝖕𝖎𝖗𝖆𝖙𝖊𝓪𝓹𝓸𝓵𝓸𝓰𝔂

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Preorders for my novel are open! If you're into [squinting at the teleprompter] epistolary novels set against a backdrop of endless stars that explore such complicated themes as:

Were there any cheesy gordita crunches in ancient Rome? and

Is it really "starboard" in space? and

My personal vendetta against tripod telescopes disguised as a character's personal vendetta against tripod telescopes,

then maybe check it out!

Or maybe listen to what actual reviewers had to say:

PRAISE FOR DEAR STUPID PENPAL

"A joyously Weird tale of unexpected genre mashups, overwhelming odds, quotable lines, and queer romance that even the most jaded cynic can't help but get swept up in."

 Íde Hennessey, "Sequoia Point", Split Scream: Off the Map

“Veers from funny to dread-inducing and back again as Hartley slowly reveals the beautiful, achingly romantic core of the story [and] hints masterfully at a fascinating outside world…before convincing us that the only things that truly matter are Finch, Aku, and how they find each other across time and space. Dear Stupid Penpal could be placed alongside This Is How You Lose the Time War as a blueprint for a compelling, propulsive, gorgeous epistolary novel.”

Emma Cole, editor at Harlequin Books, author of Love Never Dies

"Dear Stupid Penpal is a beautiful and bittersweet novella about two lonely hearts grounding each other in reality through letters that transcend space and time. It's touching, funny, yearnful, and very real. The title is hilarious, Finch and Aku are made for each other, and space reveals to be everything and more. Highly recommend!"

JD Rivers, author of The Salt in the Sea and The Edge of a World

Preorder it today using these links! Or tomorrow! Or yesterday! I don't know how time works!

Preorder the printed version

Preorder the ebook version

And finally, LOOK AT THESE LEGOS

Atticus “Finch” Davani does not want to be an astronaut. He hates space, he hates the ship, and he strongly dislikes his fellow crew members. He makes that painfully clear in his letters to Aku, his corporate-assigned penpal back on Earth.

Soon, Aku becomes much more than a penpal. But when the crew engage hyperdrive, Aku’s punctual letters start coming at random intervals, and Finch and his shipmates realize that time, for them, is moving all wrong.

As everyone else’s penpals rapidly die of old age, Finch turns, heartbroken, to Aku; who, more than a century later, is still there.

i don't think i've mentioned yet that i write for @duckprintspress

i definitely haven't mentioned that i write nsfw, emotional, sappy smut that's secretly about my fandom ot3 but has been re-cast into original fiction.

so. if you want some very sappy gay smut from a nonbinary gay virgin you've come to the right place.

it's the first story in my series of mxmxm smut published with @duckprintspress, in which my protagonists, consisting of a god and his two demon king husbands, are unbearably in love and shamelessly horny, and that's pretty much the entire plot. welcome to the world of aren, mithros, and samael.

you can read it on ream (don't worry, you don't need to make an account to see it ❤️):

Duck Prints Press’s monthly “created works round-ups” are our opportunity to spotlight some of the amazing work that people working with us have done that ISN’T linked to their work with 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!”

Check out what they’ve shared with us this month…

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The Story Reaper by The Story Reaper Podcast Crew

audio || original work || no ships, platonic or familial, f/f || general audiences || no major warnings apply || 00:32:42 || ongoing series

summary: In this anthology podcast, The Story Reaper, an otherworldly entity and their young apprentice visit individuals to acquire an untold story. This spooky yet family-friendly collection will take listeners all over the world as the duo listens to and collects the mysterious accounts of the strangers they seek out. This world is full of untold stories - frightful and profound, fantastical and honest: a mother’s brujería, an insatiable house, a cursed 90s reality game show, a cove housing ghosts of persecuted Indian girls, and a monstrous entity haunting a fishing town. These stories are waiting. And they must be collected.

TWITTER - LINK

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Midnight in Middle Earth by Rascal Hartley / @crack--attack

fiction || tolkien - all media types, hobbit - all media types, lord of the rings - all media types || platonic or familial, m/m || bilbo/thorin, frodo/sam, legolas/gimli, aragorn/arwen || mature || creator choses not to use warnings, graphic depictions of violence || 375,048 (with the caveat that i am reading through the last two chapters again so +/- 20 words or so) || complete

summary: The stars are restless.

They twinkle in the night sky, shoving back and forth, trying to catch a glimpse. For all soft songs written of them, for all the kisses shared under them and childlike wonder directed at them, the stars care not for gentleness, nor kind words or deeds. No, when the stars crane their necks, it is to see things like this: a Hobbit, curled up on a path, sobbing, alone. He is covered in blood. It is not his own. He has a traveling companion, a tall wizard who slumbers. Even were the wizard not truly sleeping, Hobbits are such quiet creatures that he never would have noticed the state of his companion.

The stars watch as salty tears shed upon the ground, as dried blood is rewet; and perhaps that is something in itself, something a planet or a galaxy might call an omen, but for right now only the stars see as Bilbo Baggins, Hobbit of the Shire, mourns.

other tags: disabled characters handled lovingly, dances with canon, slight dubcon kissing, war violence, the process of grief

AO3

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Pre-orders for Adrian Harley’s debut sapphic fantasy novel Many Drops Make a Stream are now open!

A memory-stealing cult. The ever-watchful City of Eyes. Making small talk. Join Droplet as she faces all these horrors and more…

Vigilante shapeshifter Droplet has trained her entire life to take down those with more power than scruples, but she still makes mistakes. When a rescue mission goes wrong, a memory-stealing cult of blood mages escapes with kidnapped captives in tow. To save them, Droplet reluctantly teams up with the outgoing, tenacious Azera. Droplet knows better than to trust a human—she made that mistake once, and that person’s betrayal scattered her community across the known world—and she can tell Azera is hiding secrets behind her sunny smile. But if they can’t learn to work together, even Droplet’s own memories could be lost.

Many Drops Make a Stream, Adrian Harley’s debut novel, is the stand-alone first book in a series of related fantasy-mystery-heists featuring the shapeshifter Droplet and the friends and found family who work alongside her to fight the corrupt powers-that-be. Many Drops Make a Stream is rated general (adult) audiences and features shapeshifting shenanigans, a nascent f/f quarrelers-to-lovers pre-relationship, a wonderful extended cast of family and pseudo-family, necromancy and blood magic and spellwork (oh my!), and one (1) very angry goose.

For this campaign, we’re offering:

Many Drops Make a Stream e-book (ePub and PDF formats)

Many Drops Make a Stream digest-sized trade paperback book (bonus: every single print book comes with a bookplate signed by Adrian Harley!)

Droplet!Dux Die-Cut Sticker

Many Drops Make a Stream Cover Art Print

Shapeshifting Droplet Enamel Pin

Patron-exclusive extra wooden coaster (for people who support Duck Prints Press at the $10/month and $25/month level on Patreon and back this campaign)

Better yet, you can get a discount by picking one of three bundles:

Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Merchandise

Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Print Book

Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Print Book + Merchandise

You can learn all about the book, the author, the campaign, and our offerings by visiting the pre-order page NOW!

Want a chance to win a trade paperback copy of Many Drops Make a Stream? Help us spread the word about this campaign by liking and signal boosting our posts on any of our platforms that including “sharing” functionality (such as Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Facebook), and you can get up to 4 entries per platform where you share!*

Campaign backers will also get bonuses based on the number of signal boosts our posts receive! All the social media links for sharing are on the linked pre-order page, so help us tell the world about the awesome book, and who knows – you might win a copy! (But only if we fund, ’cause we can’t afford to print the book if we don’t fund, so help us make sure people who want to buy The Awesome learn that The Awesome exists!)