Duck Prints Press
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| Name: | Duck Prints Press |
| Date(s): | 2021 - present |
| Moderator: | N/A |
| Founder: | unforth |
| Type: | publisher of original work by fandom creators |
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| URL: | duckprintspress.com |
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Duck Prints Press is an independent publisher founded in January 2021 for fan creators making original work. They focus heavily on representing LGBTQIA+ works and creators, paying creators first, and encouraging a cooperative community to help more people publish their work.
Fandom Roots
The press is rooted deeply in fandom: the creators all come from a fandom background and the tropes and attitudes of fandom heavily inform the work published by the press.
In 2023, the press had a panel at Fandom Fest[1] about transitioning from writing fanfiction to original fiction, where creators talked about their experiences.
Vision
From Duck Prints Press's "A Message From Our Founders":
It’s better to think of Duck Prints Press as a bunch of people who might, otherwise, be doing self-pub, instead banding together to use all our skills and all our resources and all our personal readerships to try to build us up as a group.[2]
Publications
Duck Prints has several different types of work that they publish. Currently, that includes fanworks for work in the public domain, themed anthologies, often trope related, and original fiction.
Fanworks for Media in the Public Domain
- And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: transformative works inspired by Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
- Aim for the Heart: transformative works inspired by The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Themed Anthologies
- Add Magic to Taste: a cozy magic bakery/cafe/coffee-house anthology
- She Wears the Midnight Crown: a wlw masquerade anthology
- He Bears the Cape of Stars: a mlm masquerade anthology
- Aether Beyond the Binary: an anthology of stories starring characters outside the gender binary in aetherpunk settings
Original Novels/Novellas
- Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley
- To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh
- Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard
Short Stories
Short stories are published for Patreon supporters and have previously been bundled and sold as e-book add ons for other fundraisers.
Distribution
Distribution has changed over time, so different publications might be distributed differently. Everything is available digitally, though some of the short stories are only available to patrons on Patreon. Anthologies and novels are available in trade paperpack, and some in hardcover, as well.
Kickstarter
Several of the anthologies were funded using Kickstarter. In addition to books, the press has also funded merch such as stickers and pins. [3]
Website
Novels have mainly been funded via pre-orders on the Duck Prints Press website.
Print-on-Demand
Several of the published books are now available at larger publishers to be printed on demand.
Community
The Duck Prints Press community is a vital component of the press: members come together on various platforms to contribute ideas, blog posts and crowdsourced book lists, and readers and fans can join the community to discuss books, chat on discord, and talk about upcoming projects.
- Patreon
- Discord
- Tumblr
Creators
Creators are invited into the press, typically via an open call for creators when a new themed anthology is being planned.