Michael Joseph 🏳️‍⚧️

Running out of time for people to apply for this! If you're a fanfiction author who's wanted to start publishing your original work, we'd love to see your application!

for the curious, we've received
new-to-press apps: 43
published-with-us-before apps: 20

Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis

The bridge from Aotearoa washed out, soz.

A banner with a cobblestoned street in black-and-white at night as the background. It's entitled The Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence, and shows three books covers: Book 1, Commit to the Kick, featuring a muscular man in a purple and white football uniform with a roaring bear and dragon behind him; Book 2, Missed Fortunes, with two people in casual modern clothing falling from a tower as the twoer burns and explodes, cards falling about them; and Book 3: Into the Split, showing two people from behind as they look toward three gnarled, dark trees in a heavily shadowed forest. The Duck Prints Press logo is in the upper right corner.

Happy Launch Day for our awesome queer trilogy of modern-with-magic novels by Tris Lawrence! These college students have magical Talents, and they've learned about a threat that could end the world! And they still have exams!! Learn more on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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You can pry my em dash from my cold, dead, ADHD-riddled hands—no matter how many times I have to have this conversation with my uni professors.

A photograph showing a tablet on top of piles of books. The book cover on the tablet is Scholarly Pursuits, showing a dragon in a candle-lit room full of books, three bats in the background and a mouse atop a pile of books engaged in conversation with the dragon. One of the piles of books is also topped with the Scholarly Pursuits cover. Text reads: Now available! Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories.

Our most recent anthology SCHOLARLY PURSUITS: A QUEER ANTHOLOGY OF COZY ACADEMIA STORIES is now available! Buy your copy from our webstore, request it from your library, order it at your local bookstore, or purchase it from a retailer who sell our books!

duckprintspress.com/shop

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- Learn cake decorating. I've started dabbling over the last couple of weeks but want to get more intricate with it.
- Set time aside to get back into playing electric cello / bass guitar regularly.
- Learn to draft sewing patterns! Worst part of transition has been boring men's plus-size fashion.

People always say "don't add pop culture references to your books because it dates them" but I want my books dated. They're specific pockets of time that won't mean the same thing outside of context. If you're writing anything that engages with the world around you, it will be dated.

A graphic made over a background of a photograph of deep space showing stars and a gas cloud. Text on the graphic reads: Recruitment for authors to write stories for Duck Prints Press's next anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" featuring stories starring asexual characters in outer space settings opens on January 10 2026! So get ready, and stay tuned!

Recruitment for authors to contribute to our next short story anthology BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, featuring tales of asexual characters in outer space, will run from Jan 10 - Jan 31 2026! Learn all the many details by visiting our webpage today: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...

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As we start romanticizing art & community again, can we also romanticize writing as a communal activity instead of a elitist loner one?

I write best with friends. I love sharing messy WIPs. The most rewarding part of writing is getting to see other people's reactions to what I've made.

A screen capture from the Storygraph in dark mode. Text reads The Duck Prints Press 2026 Queer Book Challenge! unforth_duckprintspress host. 10 participants (0 books). Starts 01 Jan 2026. Ends 31 Dec 2026. Overview: Love reading queer books? Love low-stakes challenges that help you decide what to read next? Then you've found the perfect 2026 reading challenge! If you read even one queer book - books with queer characters, or with queer relationships, or books by queer authors with subtextual queerness, or books that serve powerful queer vibes, or books that have allusions to queer experience, or, or, or - then you can win this challenge! Then, use the bonus challenges to help steer you toward more fun books. We hope you'll join us!

Want a low-stakes challenge to motivate you to read queer? Welcome to our 2026 Queer Book Challenge on @thestorygraph.com ! We’ve got a mix of prompts that we hope will motivate you to read a diverse range of books featuring queer characters. Join us! app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

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One of the funniest points in my early(ish) transition was when I set off the body scanner at the airport and the person running it looked me up and down, visibly hesitated, then gestured to her male colleague and said "do you… have a preference as to who you'd like to pat you down?"

A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.

2026’s New Horror Books All the new horror books coming in 2026, featuring all manner of hauntings, murderers, vampires, monsters, cults, ghosts, and all kinds of nebulous eldritch terrors.

the 2026 new horror list is FINALLY LIVE! please share with all your freakiest loved ones: readjumpscares.com/2026-new-hor...

Can y'all please boost this? The number one thing that keeps indie authors locked in with Ingram over literally every better printer out there is their monopoly on distribution.

Their quality, prices, customer support, etc. ALL suck & everyone knows that, but has no other way to get into stores.

An updated list. Some I missed, some have released statements since I released the original list.

Medical orgs in support of the ban remains at 0.

Living at the bottom of the globe seems like it's all fun and games until you're trying to buy a novel… just a normal paperback… directly from the author and the website wants to charge you $70 ($40 USD) shipping. Thank goodness for US forwarding addresses, my pre-Christmas wallet is grateful.