A small press dedicated to publishing original works by fanfiction authors. We blog about our projects, writing, queer publishing, calls for story submissions, and ducks.
Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. Our founding vision is to work with fancreators to publish their original work. We are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and artists to publish stories featuring characters from across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.
The Kickstarter campaign for WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES runs from July 8 to July 31!!
note: I (the Press owner) am having surgery on July 1st, so may be slower to see or respond to things over the next month or so.
Current Projects
Anthology: Ducks in a Row: A Curated Collection of Stories and Duxxx in a Row: A Curated Collection of Explicit Stories (a project featuring stand-alone short stories previously published by Duck Prints Press. Successfully crowdfunding. We are currently in the fulfillment period.)
Anthology: Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales (editing period underway! artists are also hard at work on their art. Launches July 8th. Follow the pre-launch page!)
Anthology: Monster Smash (editing period underway!)
Anthology: Beyond the Galactic Tide (editingperiod underway)
Anthology: Untitled Queer Fanworks Inspired by the Artwork of Vincent Van Gogh anthology (currently in planning)
Merchandise: Fandom Merit Pages by Pippin Peacock (art in progress. Follow the pre-launch page!)
Merchandise: Fandom Safety Signs 2 by Xianyu Zhou (close to ready! Follow the pre-launch page on Kickstarter.)
Merchandise: Sapphic Knights Tarot deck by Betta (art in progress. Kickstarter pre-launch page! Backers of our Patreon can see teasers of the art.)
Monthly short stories and artworks are published to our Patreon!
Come read with us - we host a low-key reading challenge on Storygraph, encouraging people to read more queer books!
Upcoming Conventions and Events
Friday, June 26th: Troy Pride Night Out, Monument Square, Troy, NY, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday, June 27th: Johnstown Toying Around Block Party, Main St., Johnstown, NY, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, July 9th to Sunday, July 12th: Readercon, Boston Marriot Burlington, Burlington, MA
Saturday, July 25th and Sunday, July 26th: Lavender Con, at The 507 and other venues, Washington DC.
Past Projects
You can see a list of our past crowdfunded projects on our website.
You can learn more about our existing books by reading our Press Kit.
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Non-Binary Duck Prints Press Creators for Non-Binary Week!
Happy Non-Binary Awareness Week! In previous years, we posted our recommended books with NB characters and books written by NB authors. This time, we’ve compiled a list of works published by Duck Prints Press that were created by our fantastic non-binary authors and artists!
You can find these titles in the Duck Prints Press webstore and on our Patreon!
(images in text format under the read more)
Nina Waters
A Glimmer of Hope (novel)
The Last Letters of Mrs. Victoria Holmwood
Puppetry
Widow’s Black
Lust
Knishes and Noshes and Angel in Add Magic to Taste
To Dance at Lady Chadston’s (Patreon exclusive)
Bi-Pan Solidarity (Patreon exclusive)
May Barros
Art: Magic Friendship (Patreon exclusive)
Art: Spark by May Barros (Patreon exclusive)
Art: Gazebo in the Rain in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Neo Scarlett
Wolven Dance (Patreon exclusive)
Whispers of Atlantis: A Tale of Discovery and Belonging (Patreon exclusive)
Rhosyn Goodfellow
The Fairy Garden
On the Safe Side (Patreon exclusive)
Pierced Hearts in Aim For The Heart
Nice Girls Don’t Get the Superweapon in She Wears the Midnight Crown
Vee Sloane
The Iron Rose in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
The False Sweet Bait in And Seek (Not) to Alter Me
Wait and Hope in Aim For The Heart
Escape Velocity From Fear in He Bears the Cape of Stars
Cedar D. McCafferty-Svec
Coffee For My Valentine? (Patreon exclusive)
Glass Slipper: A Dance (Patreon exclusive)
Unsafe Haven (Patreon exclusive)
sweet static (Patreon exclusive)
please, may i have s’more? in Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica
Catherine E. Green
Of Loops and Weaves
The Serendipity of a Late Train in Aim For The Heart
To Hold the World Close in Aether Beyond the Binary
Robin S. Blackwood
The Case of the Lost Grimoire in Scholarly Pursuits
Zel Howland
Art: Chrysopoeia (Patreon exclusive)
Chrysopoeia
The Lightkeeper and the Sea (Patreon exclusive)
Flower and Rot in Aether Beyond the Binary
Pas De Deux and A Stolen Moment in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
N. C. Farrell
Sarisa (Patreon exclusive)
Eldest Daughter Seeks Her Wife in She Wears the Midnight Crown
J. D. Harlock
Somewhere Other Than Here in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Sword Dancer in Aim For The Heart
Chinaski’s Dirty Work
The Sea Bears Salvage Co. (Patreon exclusive)
Solarpunks: Viva la Revolución
An Odd Gathering of Peculiar Cats
The Blood Tithe (Patreon exclusive)
Ride On, Shooting Star (Patreon exclusive)
Linnea Peterson
Lyd, Not Lydia in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Max Jason Peterson
Going Dark
Last Boat to Heaven
Night Birds
Art: Snow Heart (Patreon exclusive)
Dueling Darcy in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
The Semantic Time Machine (Patreon exclusive)
S. J. Ralston
Razzmatazz in Aether Beyond the Binary
The Inscrutable Fate of the ISV Devotion (Patreon exclusive)
Xianyu Zhou
In Want of a Horse-Stealing, Troublemaking Swordsman in A Truth Universally Acknowledged
Fated Encounter Challenge in Aim For The Heart
Irreverence
This Treatment for Chronic Pain has an Unbelievable Side Effect!
Fave Five: Queer Soccer/Football Romances
This post is sponsored by Pat Voss in honor of his upcoming 2nd chance m/m love story, …...
https://lgbtqreads.com/2026/06/10/fave-five-queer-soccer-football-romances/
Not long ago, we at Duck Prints Press decided that we’d like the Press to have a page on Fanlore. To accomplish that, Press contributor Shea Sullivan made an account and figured out the nuts and bolts on how to add pages to Fanlore. Turns out, it’s not very hard, and now in this guest blog post, Shea will teach y’all how to do it too!
Making Your First Fanlore Page!
Hello! I am an editor on Fanlore as of a few days ago. Before that, I’d worked with mediawiki (the open source platform Fanlore uses) for unrelated projects, so I had a general understanding of how things worked, but no idea how Fanlore preferred their pages to be formatted or organized or linked.
This is how I got started!
First: What is Fanlore and Why Should You Care?
Fanlore is a wiki specifically dedicated to the fandom experience. It’s not for canon info about a specific fandom; rather, it’s for information about how fans interact with media and each other. Fanlore is run by the OTW, the same organization that brings us our beloved AO3. This context helped me in understanding the focus of Fanlore. It’s about fandom: the ups, the downs, the trends, the drama…all the things that can get lost forever when sites disappear or there’s a purge. And that said…well, you may still not care. But if you do, read on!
Second: You Care. Now What?
(read more)
Get an account. Right now. It’s worth getting the account, because you won’t be able to create new pages for a few hours. So, get the account first, figure out what to do with it later.
Go to fanlore.org and click on “Create Account” in the upper right-hand corner:
Third: You Have the Power (Soon)!
Read up! No need to invent the wheel in this post – they’ve got some great resources for getting started already written on their webpage.
Fanlore Getting Started Page
General Help Pages on Fanlore
Four hours after you create your account, you can create pages! Congrats! There are a ton of help pages out there, but the questions I had initially were:
How do I make sure this page doesn’t exist already?
Search. Search for the page. Search for key phrases associated with the page. A page name is a fiddly thing, so search for significant phrases in a few different ways before you determine it doesn’t exist. Always make sure you check before you set out to create page!
How do I add this page?
If it’s not there, you’ll see it come up in red when you search. Type the page name you want to create in the search bar. Click “Search” to get all the results, and then click on that red link.
How do I format this page?
You now have an empty page. When I was getting started, my big question was: what should my page look like? Well, Fanlore has templates that can help with that! The templates are in a markup language, but do not fear! Copy and paste the template (everything in the blue box on the template page, typically starting with curly braces), make some updates, and click “Preview.” You can repeat those steps indefinitely until you get the hang of the markup. There’s also a ton of information on the Fanlore.org cheatsheet. (If you’re still confused, keep reading, there’s more specifics under the infobox section.)
Once you have the page created and published, you can edit it without the markup language if you prefer – there’s “Edit,” which gives you a non-code-based option, and an “Edit Source” button, which gives you the code-based option.
If your proposed page topic doesn’t have an official template created for that topic, you can look up similar pages and see how they’re structured. If you’re not sure how they managed to make something look a certain way, click the “Edit Source” button and look at the code there to get a sense of what they did. Be sure to cancel out of the edit when you’re done so you don’t make unintentional changes to someone else’s page! Some pages are locked down (like the template pages) so you can’t make edits, but most “normal” pages will have those links at the top so you can dig in and see what’s there and how the people who wrote that page made it look the way it does.
How do I add an infobox?
Those infoboxes on the right of a lot of pages give a quick overview of important information. These are templates, and you can find a list of available infobox templates here.
The templates, when you click into them, have a heading and some info that you can fill in. You can’t remove items from the template without making a new template, which I don’t recommend trying when you’re getting started. Use the template, fill in the information, and mark “N/A” if you don’t have information to insert in a specific field. A sample template for an infobox looks like this, and you fill in information after each “equals” sign. You can add a list, and you can add links to these after the equals sign using the markup for internal and external links on the Cheatsheet.
If you’re still confused, let’s go to Astolat’s fan page and click “Edit Source” and see how the infobox looks behind the scenes:
See how everything that was in the original template is still there, there’s just a list of information after the equals sign?
And here’s how it looks formatted:
How do I categorize this page?
Categories are important because they help Fanlore’s back-end coding group pages together so people can find the page you’ve created and so the page is in the right place in the site map. If you can’t figure it out, though, don’t worry, there are people who will find it and take care of it!
If you have an infobox from a template, this is taken care of.
If you didn’t use an infobox template, you can add a Category to index the page.
Finding a Category can be a little overwhelming. If you have an example page (another page that contains the same type of content as yours), you can scroll to the bottom of that page and see what Category has been assigned to it. You can add that Category to your page by editing the source and adding that category into your page at the bottom with 2 square brackets, like this: [[Category:YourCategory]]
Use “Preview” to make sure you set it up correctly before saving the page.
If you need to find a category and can’t find a good example page, I recommend going to the sitemap, finding what fits your article the best, and clicking into it. Categories are set up in hierarchies, so click through until you find the Category and Subcategory that fits best.
Add it at the very bottom of the page, and it should show up when you preview, at the very bottom of the page.
How do I add those nifty citation references[1]?
Review theFanlore page on citation formatting for details. The basics are:
Add a blank References heading at the bottom of the page.
Add tags and include the source information.
What is the difference between a citation and an external link? Good question! I don’t know for sure, but the way I’ve been using it, if I make a statement about a thing and I want to direct you to the “proof” (article, webpage, etc), I will use a citation. If there is a thing I’m linking to because it is relevant but not as proof of what I’m saying on the wiki, I will add it as an external link.
Fourth: Don’t Worry
You’ll find there are a lot of instances when you might not be sure what the “right” way is to do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Don’t let that stop you! Do a little research, do your best, and be okay with a learning curve.
The thing about wiki editing in general, and this includes Fanlore, is that it’s a community project, and everyone is doing their best. It’s worthwhile to think about trying to make your pages consistent with other pages where you can, because it will help people who are trying to find what you’re providing. So, poke around similar pages first and look for common trends in how they’re organized, and mimic that for your own page.
All that said, there is very little hierarchy in editors and few rules set in stone. It’s a community site put together by volunteers. You may find that you’ve labeled, referenced, cited, categorized, etc, a page incorrectly, or that you added a page that was already there under another name, or you may have put in a canon page when that’s really not what Fanlore is for. No problem! A page can be reverted to a previous version. It can be removed by a “Gardener” (higher-level editor), or edited by someone else who is more familiar with the inner wiki workings, or you can even tweak it yourself when you learn a better ways to code the page.
There is always a path forward, so get in there and get started!
a guest post by Xianyu Zhou, creator of the Fannish Safety Signs!
Stuck on what to draw or write today? No worries, for a special set of oracle cards is here to help!
How this works:
Think of the character(s) or scene you would like to work on. You can even try asking a question like “What is something that this character is always thinking about but would never admit?”
Pick a number from 1 to 3 that resonates the most with you at the moment.
Check out the set of cards matching your number.
We’ve provided possible interpretations in the card draw, but feel free to interpret them any way that suits you! We’re providing the source of inspiration, the outcome of that inspiration is up to you.
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Set 1
Cat (reversed), Hurt/Comfort (reversed), Whump.
It seems like the situation at hand is a little out of control and out of one’s comfort zone. The character(s) won’t be getting much comfort for their hurts and it’ll just be plain Whump for a bit (sorry, or congrats, depending on your tastes). But no worries, like a cat, they will be back on their feet in no time (or will they?)…
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Set 2
Dog (reversed), There’s Only One Bed (reversed), Slice of Life
This set signals a possible turn in loyalty and/or vigilance. The character(s) should/may choose to distance themselves from the situation/choice to help them process and deal with unexpected road bumps. This time away will have them reinspecting the small, unimportant moments in their life with new perspective and gain new insights about their situation.
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Set 3
Submission Deadline, Work in Progress, Enemies to Lovers
Your character feels anxious and bound in stress, perhaps even tangled in self-doubt, as an important event approaches. However, this is something they are prepared for and know will happen, so they will forge on surely and steadily. The event will not be an end, but a beginning to a new part of their life (think: winning a competition leading to greater opportunities). They will have to keep working hard, but soon enough, what used to be tough and challenging will be easily lovable.
So! How did it go? We would love to hear about your thoughts and interpretations of the cards, too, so don’t hesitate to leave a comment or join our Discord to chat about your work!
Made something using these prompts? Let us know!
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Information about card deck used
The Fannish Safety Signs deck is a custom printed 54-card deck based off the collection of stickers by the same name launched on Kickstarter last year (Summer, 2025). It consists of 17 “Be Alert” designs and 16 “Caution” designs, as well as 21 new designs in the same style (hint hint: new designs available soon!).
Get the stickers here
Follow the Kickstarter for the new designs (and more!) here.
Information about the statistics of reversed cards
Half the deck (27 cards) are randomly selected and manually inverted before they are reshuffled into the deck. Should any cards fall out while shuffling the deck, all the cards will be checked to make sure that the rightside and reversed ratio remain 50-50. A total of 9 cards (3 sets of 3) are then drawn in succession.
Disclaimer
This post is meant for entertainment and creative prompt purposes. It is not an accurate depiction of the practice of cartomancy and oracle reading.
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Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (Contemporary YA)
Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes (Time Travel YA)
Guava Flavored Lies by J.J. Arias (F/F Romance)
Secret Identity by Alex Segura (Historical Mystery)
More Like Enemigas by Stephanie Hope (F/F Romance)
Thank you so much to everyone who purchased our 2026 Pride Bundles for Charity! In total, we sold 9 General Imprint Bundles, 7 Explicit Imprint Bundles, and 2 Art Bundles, raising a gross of $350. The Press donated 40% of our share of the proceeds, and multiple authors and artists also donated some or all of their royalties, with the result that of that $350 gross, we raised a sum to donate equal to $143.63 (41% of our gross earnings).
As we had discussed in previous posts about the bundles, we divided this donation amount between our two chosen charities: Queer Liberation Library and Transgender Law Center. Half of our total is $71.81, so I rounded that up to $72, with the expectation that if I was given the option to also cover the processing fee, I’d do so (QLL gave me that option; TLC did not). So our actual donated total is $147.46.
I also ended up with an accidental “matching donation,” in that my mother – rather than buy bundles that contained works she already has access to as a Patreon supporter – decided to do her own independent donations to each charity, each for $100. So massive shout-out to my mother, as well, for helping us do way more good than the Press alone can afford to do.
As a side note, our entire team for the Queer Liberation Library fundraiser donated $797, which put us in fourth among all the teams who participated in that fundraiser, and entitled us to request that two titles be added to the QLL’s collection! QLL and I have already concluded our e-mails about that, and I expect the announcement to go out sometime in August, based on what they told me. So be on the look out! Thank you to everyone who saw us on the team list or clicked through our team link and gave, I appreciate you helping us support a great cause and making queer books (including those we’ve published!) more accessible to more people!
Note that I made the donation on the morning of June 30th, even though the bundles weren’t technically over at that time, to ensure that we’d get our money in as part of the QLL’s June fundraiser. I had planned to make a second donation if needed, if we sold more bundles after these donations went in, however that ended up moot – these numbers do reflect our final totals.
Thanks again, everyone, and I hope you had a lovely Pride 2026!
The crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, launched yesterday, and we’re already almost 50% funded and a Kickstarter “Project We Love”!
With Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales, our authors and artists bring our perspective as queer adults in the 21st century to the stories, some ancient, some modern, that meant the most to us when we were young. Each creator selected a folktale, fairy tale, myth, or legend that had personal significance for them, then reimagined these personal touch-stones as we wish they could be: stories that uphold our cultures, stories that impart the lessons and morals we wish to impart, stories that drive home the cautions we wish we’d received, stories in which people like us are the heroes held forth for emulation. We’ve transformed these stories to be more inclusive, more personal, more understanding of others, and—of course!—much more queer.
The book contains 23 stories, each up to 5,000 words long; 21 full-page artworks; a 4-page comic by Max Jason Peterson; and a 10-page comic by Jupiter V—a total of 46 queer fanworks inspired by stories from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
In addition to the book, we’re offering awesome merch – two stickers, a bookmark, an art print, a slate coaster, an acrylic window hanging, an enamel pendant necklace, and a journal! There’s also a ton of add-ons you can choose from, from stories from our back catalog to Duck Prints Press merchandise and more.
Visit our campaign page TODAY to learn more about the anthology, our contributors, what we’re offering to backers, and our plans for getting this book into print with your help!
This own-voices, multi-genre bundle features main/POV characters figuring out their queer and/or neurodivergent identities, how to live their best life as their queer self, and/or what their emerging needs are.
17 books for $17 $16!
Figuring it Out; Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Disabled: 17 items for $16.00
Weekly Bookish Question #500 (July 12th - July 18th, 2026)
How different of a reader are you now compared to 10 years ago? How have your preferences and habits changed? [yes, I know, 500 questions is not quite 10 years but we'll just pretend it's roughly the same]
Ten years ago I was basically exclusively reading fanfiction and I didn't even know my current preferred genre (danmei) existed, so... I'm a very very different reader now than I was then.
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Join the Duck Prints Press Summer Reading Challenge!
a guest post by CarCrash.
Each year, as the weather starts warming up, I get hit with nostalgia for childhood summers and those long, hot, lazy days spent doing almost nothing besides reading as much as I wanted. Some of the books I read were for school assignments or chosen randomly from the bookcase at home, but most were picked up at my local library, which was close enough to walk to if I had nothing else to do (which I usually didn’t).
The library ran a summer challenge every year for any kid whowanted to participate: for each book read, you got another stamp on your game card, collecting small prizes along the way and a larger one at the end. It was fun and motivating and it was a nice way to keep track of what I was reading.
A lot of libraries still offer summer reading challenges, for kids and adults, and I thought it would be fun to make one of our own in the form of a bingo card! The squares are meant to be as accommodating as possible of different reading preferences while still encouraging you to get out of your comfort zone and read something new.
Have fun and happy reading!
you can also join this bingo as a challenge on Storygraph!
