A Queer Disaster

JULY 2022 PROMPT - NO CONNECTION

POSTING DATES July 15th - 19th

As the winner of May’s challenge, @walkingaline​ gets to choose the theme for July, and has chosen No Connection. Whether it’s a phone with no signal, a computer with no internet, something mystical interfering with angel radio, or something else, we’d like you to write a story where “no connection” drives the plot.

*** Please make a list of all your promos and send them to @writergamermom​ by the end of the promo time! *** All you need to include is a list of what type of promo you put up, which fic it was for, and where you posted it. You don’t have to include links, but they’re helpful, and being helpful to the one who tallies your points will earn you a bonus.

@thayerkerbasy will work at getting everybody’s promos up on the various sites, so if you don’t want your posts mirrored on another site, please let him know. If you’re on PF, please feel free to post your own promos to the community.

All Times are GMT-7 Posting Dates July 15th at 12am through July 19th at 11:59pm Promo Dates July 15th at 12am through July 23rd at 9:00pm Challenge Ends July 23rd at 9:00pm

HOW TO PLAY: Post a fic to AO3 (include it in the spncoldesthits collection on AO3) and reblog this post with an AO3 link to your fic. (Please include the link in your reblog. The point is so your followers can see the link to your fic when you reblog the post.)

FIC POINTS: hits +1 point  |  kudos = +10 points | comments = +20 points

PROMO POINTS: Fic reviews, liveblogging, banners/artwork, podfic/vlogging all earn you bonus negative points (please tag your posts with #spncoldesthitspromo).  You can earn a LOT of bonus negative points for making a masterpost of your promos and sending it to @writergamermom​ when you’re done. Additionally, each comment you leave on your competitors’ fics (up to a max of 5 per fic) earns you -10 points. Please keep all comments relevant to the fic, don’t spam the comments section with nonsense.

If we have reason to believe you’re commenting and promo’ing without having read the fics, you will receive a +1000 point penalty.

We reserve the right to award negative points on a whim for obvious time investment in promos and for general awesomeness. This is for fun and to help people feel better about their writing, so let’s be awesome to each other.

Duck Prints Press LLC is delighted to announce that the Kickstarter for our second anthology, And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, has commenced!

In And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, 16 authors and 16 artists have come together to create an exquisite, full-color collection of artwork and stories inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing. We encouraged contributors to stretch their imaginations, think outside the box, and put their own unique—and queer—twist on Benedick, Beatrice, Hero, Claudio, Don Pedro, and the whole gang! In true Shakespearean fashion, our creators utilize gender, sexuality, romanticism, and a host of costume changes to tell unique stories—some featuring original characters, some characters from the play—that show Shakespeare’s work in a whole new light.

So—grab a cup of tea and reread or rewatch your favorite version of Much Ado About Nothing to refresh your memory. Our stories and artworks feature wlw, mlm, poly relationships, trans characters, gender swaps, canon divergent tales, AUs...there's even a two-page comic! Settle in with this delightful collection and enjoy visiting Messina (and elsewhere!) and falling in love with Leonato's family and the troops of Don Pedro's army (and many others!) again and again and again!

And Seek (Not) to Alter Me is a stunning zine, printed in full color, A4 size (8 1/4 inches x 11 3/4 inches/21 cm x 30 cm), approximately 150 pages long. It includes 16 stories, each up to 5,000 words long, and 20 full-page interior artworks. Creators share their visions with us, discuss their inspiration, and take us along on a journey to experience what this play and these characters mean to them.

Ready to get your Shakespearean queer on? Us too!

BACK OUR KICKSTARTER!

Visit our website for author biographies, teasers, and more!

Support our Patreon and get exclusive campaign extras!

Follow us on our social media accounts for updates, extras, reveals, and all the juicy details!

The Kickstarter for And Seek (Not) to Alter Me will run through April 14th, 2022.

I’m a part of this anthology!!

It’s my first published original fiction, and I couldn’t be more excited!  We’re on the doorstep of getting funded (about $300 away) with 3 days left!  This anthology is in a style similar to a fanzine and it has queer stories for everyone, no matter your preferences!

Artists: @aceriee-art; @lizzybizzyart; @sketching-fox; @joey-hazell; @licieoic; @pimentogirl; @artcake; @mushrooms-and-blooms; @not-xpr-art; @soluscheese; @sweetlittlevampire; @huaepiphany; and @foxymoley

Authors: @erajakira; @arialerendeair; @nottesilhouette; @dragonmuse; and @draco-at-dawn

Editors: @unforth; @jhoomwrites; @owlishintergalactic

Production Team: @alessariel; @hermit-writes; @adaille; @formidablepassion; and @pallasperilous

I'm writing all this 'cause it's occurred to me people don't know, but Duck Prints Press explicitly exists to help fancreators make the transition into paid publishing work, and we only work with people are active in fandom!

ANYWAY. All that said! We're thrilled to share that we've reached our base funding goal!! "And Seek (Not) to Alter Me" will see print!! It's such great news, and a huge relief.

But! We're still hoping to reach some of our stretch goals.

We’re at $12,150 right now.

If we can hit $12,500, we’ll be able to print the books (and include in the e-book!) art for the back cover by front cover artist Gio Guimarães! Backers at Levels 3, 4, 5, and 6 will also receive a second art print (at no additional cost to the backers!). To be honest, we’re pretty certain we’ll hit this goal – so confident, in fact, that we already have commission Gio, contract signed and everything.

More ambitious – if we can hit $16,500, we can give all our authors and artists a raise from 1 cent per word/$50 per page to 2 cents per word/$100 per page – doubling how much we pay them! We’d love to be able to do this, and we think it can be done, but we need your help!

Do you love this project? Do you want to support our authors and artists? If you haven’t backed yet, consider doing so – just $15 will get you the e-book in PDF, ePub, and Mobi format, or you can take advantage of this one-and-only time to get the book in print format, for $40!

If you can’t afford it (we get it! times are tough!) or if you already have backed – help us spread the word! Reblog, retweet, share, and boost our posts on one or more of our social media accounts!

As always, you can find our Kickstarter campaign here – get yours before it’s too late! 3 days left…our campaign ends on Thursday, April 14th at 11:30 a.m. Eastern!

(and don't forget, you can buy our current titles and merch on our website, support us monthly on Patreon, or give us a one time donation on ko-fi - though, if you're a ko-fi user, consider giving us a follow because in the next week or two we'll be setting up our ko-fi to support monthly subscriptions and merch sales, so stay tuned...)

It’s that time of year again! We are excited to welcome back seasoned vets of the Bang and new faces!

First things first: Read the rules and requirements.

Rules:

To participate in this writing challenge you must be 18 years of age or older. There are frequently explicit storylines and scenes in the material produced from this challenge.

Main ship has to be Dean/Cas/Jimmy

There can be other ships but end goal has to be DCJ

As much as we love to see all kinds of pairings this is the Dean/Cas/Jimmy Big Bang, so the end game should be those three together.

Any other side pairings are fine

No RPF or RPS.

Underage must be tagged

No extreme underage in sexual situations (under 13)

No extreme age gaps if one of the characters is underage (no 14 years olds with 28 year olds for example)

Mentions of past underage abuse/involvement is acceptable as long as there is none shown “on screen”

All major warnings must be tagged in your summary, and cannot be subsequently changed unless you consult with your artist and they say it’s alright.

Major warnings are: Rape/Non Con, Dub Con, Underage, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions of Violence; Suicide/Self-harm, Torture, Bestiality, Addiction

Crossovers allowed, DCJ must be the main focus though

Must be an original work not posted anywhere else before your posting date. It’s fine if you started writing the work before the challenge began, as long as it’s never been shared publicly.

Participants may sign up as both an author and an artist as long as you can meet all deadlines for both.

You may not create art for your own story

Co-authors are allowed but the art rules still apply

Authors and artists are responsible for communicating during creation of work to meet deadlines

If an artist or author fail to communicative before the first check in after pairing, it will result in a drop of the non communicative party.

After you submit your work to @dcjbigbang on tumblr we encourage you to post your fic in whichever platform you wish, we only ask that you link back to DCJBB

No art may depict minors being sexualized or in sexual situations.

Stories must be beta’d before being submitted. Betas may sign up starting on December 5th, and beta sign up will continue until all authors indicate they have betas. Authors are not required to choose a beta who has signed up for the challenge. If you need help finding a beta, contact the DCJ BB mods.

Permitted Posting Platforms include Ao3, Tumblr, Livejournal, and FanFiction.net. If there is another platform that you are interested in posting on for the initial fic posting please contact the DCJ BB mods

Remember this is your work, your rights, you can post it anywhere you wish after initial submissions and postings are made. If you wish to post it somewhere else and want to include the art please contact your artist for approval of posting on that platform. Kindly remember: not all artist are comfortable with their work being posted everywhere.

On your posting date you must post your entire fic on every platform on which you release it.

No serial posting.

Requirements:

The following are requirements for the participants of the Dean/Cas/Jimmy Big Bang and are expected to be adhered to when you sign up.

All Participants:

Must join the DCJ discord server (LINK HERE) as this is where all the communications and updates will be.

Are expected to communicate clearly and concisely with the admin, mods, other participants, and especially their bang partner.

It is not required to have a tumblr blog to sign up for this writing challenge

Authors:

Word count requirements:

Mini Bang: 5k (5,000) words

Big Bang: 15k (15,000) words

Mega Bang: 50k (50,000) words

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Beta and Artist regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Artists:

Art piece requirements:

Mini Bang: 1 piece of art

Big Bang: 2 pieces of art

Mega Bang: 3 pieces of art

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Author regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Permitted types of art: fanart in any traditional or digital medium, fanvids, podfics. If you’ve got another idea, run it by the mods and we’ll see what we can do. Make sure you are explicit with your author about what you will be producing for them.

Beta:

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Author regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Go over and submit your edits to the authors in a timely manner to ensure that the fic is able to be finalized before the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Next: Check the schedule. If it doesn’t work for you, maybe try again next year but come back to read all the new fics and marvel over the art when it’s posted!

Finally: Sign up!!

Author Sign Up

Artist Sign Up

Beta Sign up

It’s that time of year again! We are excited to welcome back seasoned vets of the Bang and new faces!

First things first: Read the rules and requirements.

Rules:

To participate in this writing challenge you must be 18 years of age or older. There are frequently explicit storylines and scenes in the material produced from this challenge.

Main ship has to be Dean/Cas/Jimmy

There can be other ships but end goal has to be DCJ

As much as we love to see all kinds of pairings this is the Dean/Cas/Jimmy Big Bang, so the end game should be those three together.

Any other side pairings are fine

No RPF or RPS.

Underage must be tagged

No extreme underage in sexual situations (under 13)

No extreme age gaps if one of the characters is underage (no 14 years olds with 28 year olds for example)

Mentions of past underage abuse/involvement is acceptable as long as there is none shown “on screen”

All major warnings must be tagged in your summary, and cannot be subsequently changed unless you consult with your artist and they say it’s alright.

Major warnings are: Rape/Non Con, Dub Con, Underage, Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions of Violence; Suicide/Self-harm, Torture, Bestiality, Addiction

Crossovers allowed, DCJ must be the main focus though

Must be an original work not posted anywhere else before your posting date. It’s fine if you started writing the work before the challenge began, as long as it’s never been shared publicly.

Participants may sign up as both an author and an artist as long as you can meet all deadlines for both.

You may not create art for your own story

Co-authors are allowed but the art rules still apply

Authors and artists are responsible for communicating during creation of work to meet deadlines

If an artist or author fail to communicative before the first check in after pairing, it will result in a drop of the non communicative party.

After you submit your work to @dcjbigbang on tumblr we encourage you to post your fic in whichever platform you wish, we only ask that you link back to DCJBB

No art may depict minors being sexualized or in sexual situations.

Stories must be beta’d before being submitted. Betas may sign up starting on December 5th, and beta sign up will continue until all authors indicate they have betas. Authors are not required to choose a beta who has signed up for the challenge. If you need help finding a beta, contact the DCJ BB mods.

Permitted Posting Platforms include Ao3, Tumblr, Livejournal, and FanFiction.net. If there is another platform that you are interested in posting on for the initial fic posting please contact the DCJ BB mods

Remember this is your work, your rights, you can post it anywhere you wish after initial submissions and postings are made. If you wish to post it somewhere else and want to include the art please contact your artist for approval of posting on that platform. Kindly remember: not all artist are comfortable with their work being posted everywhere.

On your posting date you must post your entire fic on every platform on which you release it.

No serial posting.

Requirements:

The following are requirements for the participants of the Dean/Cas/Jimmy Big Bang and are expected to be adhered to when you sign up.

All Participants:

Must join the DCJ discord server (LINK HERE) as this is where all the communications and updates will be.

Are expected to communicate clearly and concisely with the admin, mods, other participants, and especially their bang partner.

It is not required to have a tumblr blog to sign up for this writing challenge

Authors:

Word count requirements:

Mini Bang: 5k (5,000) words

Big Bang: 15k (15,000) words

Mega Bang: 50k (50,000) words

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Beta and Artist regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Artists:

Art piece requirements:

Mini Bang: 1 piece of art

Big Bang: 2 pieces of art

Mega Bang: 3 pieces of art

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Author regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Permitted types of art: fanart in any traditional or digital medium, fanvids, podfics. If you’ve got another idea, run it by the mods and we’ll see what we can do. Make sure you are explicit with your author about what you will be producing for them.

Beta:

Clearly and concisely communicate with the admin and mods. If something comes up that may possibly delay your progress touch base with us. We are pretty laid back and we can work it out one way or another.

Clearly and concisely communicate with your Author regularly to make sure that everything is completed by the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Go over and submit your edits to the authors in a timely manner to ensure that the fic is able to be finalized before the due dates laid out in the schedule.

Next: Check the schedule. If it doesn’t work for you, maybe try again next year but come back to read all the new fics and marvel over the art when it’s posted!

Finally: Sign up!!

Author Sign Up

Artist Sign Up

Beta Sign up

OCTOBER 2021 PROMPT - UNSUPERVISED GARBAGE

POSTING DATES October 15TH-19TH)

As there were two winners of August’s challenge, each has chosen a theme. Fics for October will need to fit both themes to qualify. 

@walkingaline​ would like us to write stories about someone being left unsupervised, and whatever mayhem might ensue. Show us the disasters that occur when someone is on their own.

AND

@alwaysthrowsscissors​ would like us to return to the ancient past of Coldest Hits and write some hot garbage. Your story should have confusing plots, typos, grammar issues, nonsensical storytelling, and/or shitty characterization. Write the worst story you can imagine.

Between those, you all have enough to juggle, so there are no +/- points to work into your fics this month, HOWEVER, you can earn extra points for your promos this month if they are also hot garbage. Show us your terrible photo editing skills, draw fan art in MS Paint, ramble off topic in your liveblog, and ignore your spellcheck.

*** Please make a list of all your promos and send them to @writergamermom by the end of the promo time! *** All you need to include is a list of what type of promo you put up, which fic it was for, and where you posted it. You don’t have to include links, but they’re helpful, and being helpful to the one who tallies your points can earn you a bonus.

@thayerkerbasy will work at getting everybody’s promos up on the various sites, so if you don’t want your posts mirrored on another site, please let him know. If you’re on PF, please feel free to post your own promos to the community.

All Times are GMT-7 Posting Dates October 15th at 12am through October 19th at 11:59pm Promo Date October 15th at 12am through October 23rd at 9:00pm Challenge Ends October 23rd at 9:00pm

HOW TO PLAY: Post a fic to AO3 (include it in the spncoldesthits collection on AO3) and reblog this post with an AO3 link to your fic. (Please include the link in your reblog. The point is so your followers can see the link to your fic when you reblog the post.)

FIC POINTS: hits +1 point  |  kudos = +10 points | comments = +20 points

PROMO POINTS: Fic reviews, liveblogging, banners/artwork, podfic/vlogging all earn you bonus negative points (please tag your posts with #spncoldesthitspromo).  You can earn a LOT of bonus negative points for making a masterpost of your promos and sending it to @writergamermom​ when you’re done. Additionally, each comment you leave on your competitors’ fics (up to a max of 5 per fic) earns you -10 points. Please keep all comments relevant to the fic, don’t spam the comments section with nonsense.

If we have reason to believe you’re commenting and promo’ing without having read the fics, you will receive a +1000 point penalty.

We reserve the right to award negative points on a whim for obvious time investment in promos and for general awesomeness. This is for fun and to help people feel better about their writing, so let’s be awesome to each other.

Willa Blythe (she/her) started talking late and telling stories early,  and she hasn’t stopped doing either of those things since. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Playwriting and a Master’s in Literature, and she still learned most everything she knows about writing from reading  someone else’s. She and her pre-teen son Jack are a dynamic duo when it comes to road trip karaoke and dinner table roleplay, but disagree about minor matters like homework and chores and whether or not you must do those things. When not working at her day job, teaching, parenting, trying to convince herself to write, or talking on the phone for hours to the three people in her life who are still into talking on the phone, Willa enjoys picking up new hobbies that she’ll pursue to excess for two and a half months; downloading 67 mods for a video game she’ll play 4 hours of before abandoning for three years; reading halves and thirds and quarters of books; and playing a lot of Dungeons & Dragons with friends online. She’s still waiting for the lady knight of her dreams to come pick her up from this really boring tower—but at least the view is pretty sweet. Her contribution to Add Magic to Taste will be Willa’s first publication, and she’s both grateful and excited for this opportunity to bring a bit of magic to the mundane.

Links: Twitter

Story Title: Something in the Water

tags: amnesia, bipoc character, depression, fat character, humor, hurt/comfort, love at first sight, mild angst, off-screen death of a parent, water spirits, wlw

Teaser:

“Ah, okay, well— that’s— that’s super unfortunate, I really do feel for you, Thea, but—”

“But what?”

Merrily tried to pull her hand away, gently.

Thea did not let it go.

Oh, no.

“Well…” Merrily shrugged, trying to let her down easy. “I do small magic? The Little Practice, we call it. Good luck charms, help with intentions, dream-reading, stuff like that. Curses, that’s…”

“That’s…?” Thea kept hold of her hand, a prisoner, caught in the limbo of the over-the-counter area that was normally reserved for the passing of currency and drinks.

“Well, that’s Big Magic,” Merrily said. “I don’t do that. I’m sorry. You’ll have to find someone else.”

Thea looked at her. And blinked. And then—to Merrily’s horror—began to cry.

“No no no, don’t do that, please don’t do that,” Merrily begged, trying to pull away to find her a tissue, but Thea held tight to her hand.

“There—is—no—one—else,” Thea said, in a thin, shaking voice on the edge of disaster.

Merrily just couldn’t let this happen. Not with tears. Not if she was never going to get her hand back.

And definitely not to the prettiest girl she’d ever seen.

Is Merrily going to help Thea? You can see how things work out for these two, and read 19 other fantastic fluffy queer stories, by backing the Add Magic to Taste Kickstarter!

So exciting!!!!

You can tell I’m excited because of all the exclamations I using!!!!

Duck Prints Press LLC is thrilled to announce that the Kickstarter for our first anthology, Add Magic to Taste, is now live!

For Add Magic to Taste, 20 authors have come together to produce new, original short stories uniting four of our absolute favorite themes: queer relationships, fluff, magic, and coffee shops! Our diverse writers have created an even more diverse collection of stories guaranteed to sweeten your coffee and warm your tart.

Love wlw? So do we!

Love mlm? We’ve got you covered!

Love genderqueer characters? Raise those trans, enby, agender, and other flags high!

Love aces? Same, and we don’t (only) mean playing cards!

Love poly relationships? Hey, we’re sharing a brain!

We won’t say this anthology has it all - there are too many identities in the world for us to fit all of them into one anthology of 20 stories - but if you want some queer fluff and happy feelings, you've come to the right place. Add Magic to Taste features characters of different races, ethnicities, sexualities, romanticisms, gender identities, religions, and home nations, united by the common theme of finding someone (or more than one someone) to enjoy a muffin and a cuppa with - for today or for a lifetime, romantically or otherwise!

Each story is never-before-published, approximately 5,000 words long, and features each author’s unique take on our theme. Our beautiful digest-size trade paperback book features cover art by Liz Lee Illustrations (@lizleeillustration on Tumblr - with the potential for more art - see our stretch goals!) and formatting by Hermit Prints (@hermitwrites on Tumblr).

Interested? (OF COURSE YOU ARE!) Learn more!

Read more and then BACK OUR KICKSTARTER!

Visit our website for author biographies, teasers, and more!

Support our Patreon and get exclusive campaign extras!

Follow us here on Tumblr and on our other social media accounts for updates, extras, reveals, and all the juicy details!

Sign up for our mailing list to make sure you always know the latest!

The Kickstarter for Add Magic to Taste will run through Saturday, August 14th at 11 AM EDT - so follow us here, check it out, and if you want to support an awesome group of writers creating an amazing collection of fluffy queer stories - back our project!

So many years in the making and so much hard work and perseverance and I can’t believe I’ve been a part of the amazing thing we are doing here. 

Meet Barista!Dux!

Do you love this dux as much as we do?

Do you want to support Duck Prints Press LLC in our efforts to publish original works by fanfiction authors?

Would you like your very own sticker of this scrumptious dux?

Do we hear a YES?

Then have we got an opportunity for you! Duck Prints Press LLC, a small, independent publisher which specializes in publishing original fiction written by fanfiction authors, especially those featuring L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ characters, is raising funds to help support our operating costs, and you can help!

How? By pre-ordering a sticker of this dux! This precious creature can be yours for only $3.75 US (and that includes shipping, domestic or international)! 

How it works:

You decide you can’t live without this dux and it‘s sweet, sweet offerings (who could, really?)

You complete this pre-order form: https://forms.gle/K4nn3gHeV8Q1AnUbA

You wait for our pre-order period to end on June 15th, 2021.

We order awesome, original, exclusive die-cut stickers of Barista!Dux from Stickermule!

We send you an invoice (through Paypal or Quickbooks, depending on the preference you indicated on your survey).

Once we have the stickers and your payment, we put your dux in the mail!

YOU RECEIVE YOUR VERY OWN BARISTA!DUX!

Pre-order yours now!

Learn more about us here: 

Meet Barista!Dux!

Do you love this dux as much as we do?

Do you want to support Duck Prints Press LLC in our efforts to publish original works by fanfiction authors?

Would you like your very own sticker of this scrumptious dux?

Do we hear a YES?

Then have we got an opportunity for you! Duck Prints Press LLC, a small, independent publisher which specializes in publishing original fiction written by fanfiction authors, especially those featuring L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ characters, is raising funds to help support our operating costs, and you can help!

How? By pre-ordering a sticker of this dux! This precious creature can be yours for only $3.75 US (and that includes shipping, domestic or international)! 

How it works:

You decide you can’t live without this dux and it‘s sweet, sweet offerings (who could, really?)

You complete this pre-order form: https://forms.gle/K4nn3gHeV8Q1AnUbA

You wait for our pre-order period to end on June 15th, 2021.

We order awesome, original, exclusive die-cut stickers of Barista!Dux from Stickermule!

We send you an invoice (through Paypal or Quickbooks, depending on the preference you indicated on your survey).

Once we have the stickers and your payment, we put your dux in the mail!

YOU RECEIVE YOUR VERY OWN BARISTA!DUX!

Pre-order yours now!

Learn more about us here: 

Announcing: Our First Call for Artists!

Duck Prints Press LLC is thrilled to announce we are planning our second anthology, a collection of works inspired by William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing! This anthology will feature both artwork and fiction, and will be similar in structure to a zine - except that, unlike a zine, we’ll be paying all contributors!

So, fanartists - are you interested in getting paid to imagine a queer version of Much Ado About Nothing?

We’d love to have you!

This post is not a call for art submissions! Like a fandom zine, we’re asking prospective artists to submit a portfolio of three works that you think best reflects your capabilities and a style you’d like to use for this anthology; you’ll also be asked to give us a link to your portfolio. We’ll review all the applications and select the artists we feel are the best fit for this project, and the selected artists will have creative license to create an artwork of their choice that features a queer interpretation of Much Ado About Nothing!

If you’re interested in this opportunity, this is your moment - read more about the anthology and, if you’re interested, submit an application!

Rules and Guidelines

Schedule

…and more!

Artist Applications for this anthology are open from May 2nd, 2021 through May 15th, 2021. The selected artists will be contacted on May 31st.

WELCOME TO MAY TROPE MAYHEM!

May Trope Mayhem is a multi-fandom/original fic writing event, also open to other content creators if ya’ll are feeling so inspired! We’ve put together a list of 31 of our favorite tropes, one per day through the month of May, and we encourage creators to join us for this month of fun tropey mayhem.

May Trope Mayhem is open to anyone who wants to create anything - art, gif sets, mood boards, etc. - but we’re emphasizing fic writing

Our goal is to promote motivation and help with habit building, so we’re encouraging people to keep their ficlets under 1,000 words, or if you make art or a gif or some such, to stick to a sketch or a single image.

How can you participate? It’s easy! To participate, write a ficlet, a poem, or create any other content that you want, aligned with the prompt for the day! Post your correctly tagged fills to Tumblr, and we’ll reblog them! (you must tag warnings such as gore, MCD, sexual content, etc., so that people can avoid triggering material!) Please also tag fandom and ship, so people can find what interests them! We ask that you put the tags at the top of your post, so they’re easy to find. If you write more than 1k words, please use a read more, or if you write something with NSFW content or potentially triggering material, please put the entire story under a read more.

Ping us (@duckprintspress) or tag your creations “#may trope mayhem” and we’ll reblog them! We’ll reblog all fills posted before June 8th, 2021.

If you post to AO3, you can also add them to our collection there!

(Note that we’ll only reblog works that respect our tagging rules and “read more” usage rules.)

You don’t have to sign up, just post your fills. You don’t have to be a member of the Press. You don’t have to be part of a specific fandom, and we’re open to all ships, genres, formats, etc! You don’t have to post fills on the corresponding day, though we ask that if you’re writing for a day that hasn’t happened yet, please wait for that day to post.

HELP US NAME THIS DUCK!

Have you seen Duck Prints Press’s adorable mascot? We affectionately call them Dux, but they don’t ’t have an actual name yet - and we want them to have one! All good ducks deserve excellent names! And we want you to help!

Who we are:

Duck Prints Press LLC is an independent publisher based in New York State. Our founding vision is to help fanfiction authors navigate the complex process of bringing their original works from first draft to print, culminating in publishing their work under our imprint. We are particularly dedicated to working with queer authors and publishing stories featuring characters from across the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ spectrum.

How you can help name this excellent duck:

We’ve been longing to name this duck since they were created, and we’ve had a lot of ideas - but ultimately, we decided we want our Patrons to be the ones to name them!

So, want to help us name them?

Back us on Patreon, and you can!

When we reach 25 patrons (we’re at 19 right now!) we’ll open the floor and take suggestions on what to name this stunning, marvelous example of duck-dom.

(And while you’re pondering names - note that there is a single rule. We want gender neutral names only, please! We don’t define the duck’s gender. That’s for the duck to know, and us all to respect.)

HOCKEY BOIS: A Beer League Romance

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.

ebook available: Feb 26, 2021

Paperback available: NOW!! 🤯

Does it have hockey? Yes. Think Check Please levels of hockey.

Does it have romance? Also very yes. Think… well, pretty much every fic I’ve ever written levels of romance.

GOOD NEWS! I have both available in my ko-fi shop :) 

CALLING: FANFICTION AUTHORS WHO DREAM OF PUBLISHING ORIGINAL FICTION!

Duck Prints Press LLC is thrilled to announce that the author application for our first anthology, Add Magic to Taste, are now open!

Times are tough, and we thought that what the world really needed were some light-hearted stories to make everyone smile. So, we picked themes that never fail to make us smile! The stories for this anthology will incorporate these themes:

Setting: Modern worlds with magic

Relationships: Queer love stories

Locale: Coffee shops, bakeries, tea shops, or the like

Trope: FLUFF!

This post is not a call for story submissions. Like a fandom zine, we’re asking prospective authors to submit writing samples. We’ll select authors based on these samples, and the chosen authors will have creative license to create a story of their choice provided it includes the four required story elements. You must write and post fanfiction to apply to this anthology, but all stories in Add Magic to Taste must be original!

If you want to be one of our authors, this is your moment - read more about the anthology and, if you’re interested, send in an application!

Rules and Guidelines

FAQ

Schedule

…and more!

Author applications for Add Magic to Taste are open from March 1st to March 15th, 2021.

APPLY NOW!

Just want y’all to know that today the Author and Beta sign ups will be closing up shop at 10 pm ET.

If you are interested in signing up new, or returning, now is the time. 

We look forward to working with all of our participants and are excited to see what they create for this challenge! 

Reminder: ARTIST SIGN UPS are open until MARCH 14, 2021 at 10 pm ET! 

If you are an artist or know one that may be interested, let them know and give them the link, we would appreciate it. 

Thank (insert your deity here) it’s over. 

This has always been my New Year’s song for as long as I can remember. It has never been more true than it is for 2017. 

I thought that a few others out there may be interested in this.

But compared to 2020? I can’t even compare. What we’ve all been through together, this huge shared trauma, not to mention literally the three decades of things/events/protests/tragedies that we’ve endured and come out on the other side of. 

We’ve lost a lot in 2020. I’m not gonna make the same mistake as saying 2021 will be our year, did that last year and didn’t like how it turned out. 

So here we are again. 

This song has never rang more true in my life than tonight. I hope that you all enjoy it as much as I do.