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Ever wondered how we pick the themes for our anthologies? It’s actually pretty simple. As a team, the people who help run Duck Prints Press decide “the next project will be X type,” where X is general imprint, or explicit imprint, or Queer Fanworks Inspired By…, etc. Then, we brainstorm some potential themes, sometimes with input from other people involved in the Press, sometimes not.

And then?

Why, we have the backers on our Patreon decide!

That’s right – every single backer, from $3/month on up, gets a vote!

And they’re exercising that voting might right now. Yesterday, the poll went up to decide the theme of our next anthology, the third in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… series. What will our authors and artists be inspired by? The choices are…

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
• Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• the Women of the Homeric Epics (the Illiad and the Odyssey)
• the works of the Brontë Sisters (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, etc.)

Which will be the winner? I honestly couldn’t tell you. The vote’s open until next Sunday, and it’s far too soon to call. We haven’t even counted the dangling chads yet!

What I CAN tell you is that almost 40% of our 62 current backers have voted since the poll went up yesterday, and that if I ended the poll right now, we’d have to have a run-off – because there’s a dead-even tie between the two most popular choices!

So become a Duck Prints Press Patron now, vote for our next inspiration, and influence the future of publishing! YOU HAVE THE POWEEEEER!

Looking for a deliciously unusual and sexy story this Wednesday? Have we got a treat for you – the newest release by Sunrise Over the Black Forest author Lyn Weaver!

Title: Weather the Storm

Author: Lyn Weaver

Genre: Science Fiction with Magic

Rating: Mature

Trigger Warnings: body horror, body modification (involuntary), cannibalism (past), character injury (graphic descriptions), character injury (permanent), dubious consent

Relationships: enemies to lovers, fighting to fucking, interspecies relationship, m/m, selfcest (pseudo)

Character Features: bipoc, creature shifter (dog), doppelganger, masochist, non-corporeal, non-human character, shapeshifting

Tags: be gay do crime, belly bulge, biting, blood drinking, dystopia, first kiss, knotting, metaphysics, past tense, penis in anus sex, pov third person limited, size kink

Teaser:

The first time Rain had seen the conceptual entity he called Cerberus, he’d been dying. That tracked. Encountering a conceptual entity was usually the last thing one did. Cerberus hadn’t been the one killing him, though. Shattered machinery, Mirror exposure, and his own armour unit had been responsible for that. The metal stabbed through him hadn’t killed him quickly enough. It had begun fusing with his ravaged body while flesh and steel both unraveled into the ever-present glittering haze. He’d been lying on his back, drifting in and out of consciousness, struggling to hold himself together as his very self dissolved at the seams, when he heard it. A voice. A real one, not an echo.

Someone had been standing over him, looking down.

No. Something. A huge black dog made of storm clouds and lightning, eyes and mouths crackling with terrible light.

Length: 17 pages/5,892 words

This new release is ONLY available to Patreon backers at the $10/month and $25/month. Become a backer, and read it – and over 50 other stories available to our supporters – now!

(Starting in October, we will primarily be releasing short stories direct to our Patreon, so if you love our short stories and want all the other awesome benefits of being a monthly support of Duck Prints Press, there’s no time like the present to sign up!)