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Starting today, and running through Wednesday, January 28th, we’re raising funds to publish the third and last book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence ( @tryslora ) ! Whether you backed the campaigns for books 1 and 2, or you’re just hearing about these books for the first time from this post, now is a great time to get one book, get two books, or get the whole trilogy so you can read the full story!
People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.
The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.
At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.
This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…
For this campaign, we’re also making some fun Pine Hills University merchandise—the crest of the fictional university as an enamel pin, a car back-window sticker, and one of our signature dux in a PHU-colored varsity jacket.
Oh and – these books are hella queer! The main character is a gay aro man, the lead of the second is asexual biromantic and has a trans twin brother, and book 3 features an established m/m relationship between the leads. That’s just the tip of the iceberg; lots of the side characters are also LGBTQIA+.
Visit our Kickstarter campaign page and learn all the details, read the book blurbs and excerpts, see the merch, get to know Tris Lawrence, and more!

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January 15, 2026

If the only valid queer rep is explicit queer rep, that’s a huge problem. There are lots of old books that simply could not include explicit rep. There are lots of new books that it wouldn’t make sense for the rep to be explicit. There are a lots of settings where they’re not going to take a moment and go “by the way, I’m bi, not gay.”
There has to be room for subtextual and interpretative queerness, even when discussing a canon where queerness is never acknowledged as existing.
There also has to be room for people to disagree with those interpretations, and of course some interpretations will be more supportable, canonically, than others, and sometimes we simply won’t be able to say “this character is that rep (as opposed to some other rep)” conclusively.
There has to be space in our readings of books to be comfortable with this ambiguity, and there has to be a minimum good-faith acceptance that if someone says “that book was queer to me,” even if the book isn’t explicit queer and doesn’t read queer to someone else… that doesn’t change the nature of the queerness.
Some of y'all really need to accept that there’s not only one way to read a book, and there never will be, and that’s okay.

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January 15, 2026

Celebrate Wikipedia Day with Our Favorite Wikipedia Articles!

Today is Wikipedia Day, an annual celebration of Wikipedia’s founding anniversary! The community-built encyclopedia for all turns 24 years old today. Normally, Duck Prints Press doesn’t highlight specific businesses or even non-profits as part of our posts, but we decided to make an exception for Wikipedia, especially with it facing unprecedented challenges caused by the growing popularity of generative AI (boo, hiss). There are a handful of services and organizations that Duck Prints Press supports with modest monthly contributions, and Wikipedia is one of them.

Since we love Wiki so much, we wanted to celebrate its birthday too! Many of us have wiled away otherwise empty hours by falling down the Wikipedia rabbit hole. We’ve uncovered many gems that way, or while researching specific topics. Today, Nina Waters, S. J. Ralston, boneturtle, Shannon, Rascal Hartley, Shadaras, and an anonymous contributor share our favorite Wikipedia pages!

Graphic 2 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Gävle Goat. For full text of this and the other screen caps in this blog post, use the links shared below the images.

Wikipedia Page: Gävle Goat

Graphic 3 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Scam.

Wikipedia Page: Scam

Graphic 4 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Dancing Plague Of 1518.

Wikipedia Page: Dancing Plague Of 1518

Graphic 5 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Disco Demolition Night.

Wikipedia Page: Disco Demolition Night

Graphic 6 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Eternal September.

Wikipedia Page: Eternal September

Graphic 7 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Nobel Disease.

Wikipedia Page: Nobel Disease

Graphic 8 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: Ten-Cent Beer Night.

Wikipedia Page: Ten-Cent Beer Night

Graphic 9 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: List Of Obsolete Units Of Measurement.

Wikipedia Page: List Of Obsolete Units Of Measurement

Graphic 10 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: List Of Legendary Creatures By Type.

Wikipedia Page: List Of Legendary Creatures By Type

Graphic 11 of 11. A screenshot of a Wikipedia page titled: List Of Common Misconceptions.

Wikipedia Page: List Of Common Misconceptions

We hope this list has given y’all some fun things to read! Please, PLEASE tell us your favorite Wikipedia pages too – we’d love to read them!

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Filed under: duck prints press wikipedia wikipedia day

January 15, 2026

mrkestis:

Recommendations from my favorite genre: Queer horror
The Lamb by Lucy Rose - Margot and Mama live in a cottage in the woods, and they eat ”strays”, lost people who come by their home looking for help. Everything changes when a woman named Eden shows up and mama falls in love.
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling - a medieval fortress under siege, a starving people, a woman in a tower trying to create a miracle, a lady knight forced to protect her, a disgraced noblewoman looking for revenge and saints showing up in the flesh. Yep, there’s cannibalism in this one too.
Don’t Let the Forest in by CG Drews - toxic and codependent gays at a boarding school with a forest where the horror creatures they wrote and illustrated might be coming to life.
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen - Roos lives a dreadful life with her mother, but at least she has Ruth, the ghost and spirit companion only she can see. One day she meets Agnes, a woman like her who has a spirit companion of her own, and she gets whisked away to her haunted manor.
Bunny by Mona Awad - Samantha goes to a literature class with a group of girls who call themselves the bunnies, and one day she gets invited to hang out with them and participate in their ”art”.
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield - Miri’s wife has finally come back from a disastrous deep-sea expedition, but she has not come back unchanged.

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Filed under: queer fiction queue

January 15, 2026

hiraethdays:

I am a part of “everyone” for @duckprintspress and their tag, so I’ll do it!
Last Book: When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo. I ran through the majority of that book in a night. I definitely want to get into the next book of the series.
Last Series: Uh… Haven’t watched TV in a while…
Tea or Coffee: Tea! Especially loose leaf
Sweet or Salty: Depends on if this is a meal or dessert. I love sweets, but I also like seafood and all
Working On: I mainly want to rework on some of my fanfics to make them stronger. I also have a few original stories that I’m working on

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Filed under: meme i've heard so many good things about that book and all of nghi vo's books

January 15, 2026

polypodweek:

ALT
Only 3 more weeks to go!
And with that, it’s time for last year’s collections to close, and this year’s collection to open!
Collection? Only one? Good catch!
Something new we’re trying this year is merging both the SFW and NSFW collections together.
The reasons for separating them have always been slightly convoluted and since AO3 already provides the tools to separate mature and explicit content when browsing, it’s become increasingly obvious that the cons of having two collections outweigh the pros.

You can find the now singular collection HERE
As per usual, it will remain unrevealed until the event officially starts.

Happy holidays everybody, and to all the early birds—happy posting!

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Filed under: signal boost

January 15, 2026

Back the Campaign to Fund Publishing the Twinned Trilogy Today!
ALT
Starting today, and running through Wednesday, January 28th, we’re raising funds to publish the third and last book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence ( @tryslora ) ! Whether you backed the campaigns for books 1 and 2, or you’re just hearing about these books for the first time from this post, now is a great time to get one book, get two books, or get the whole trilogy so you can read the full story!
People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.
The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.
At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.
This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…
For this campaign, we’re also making some fun Pine Hills University merchandise—the crest of the fictional university as an enamel pin, a car back-window sticker, and one of our signature dux in a PHU-colored varsity jacket.
Oh and – these books are hella queer! The main character is a gay aro man, the lead of the second is asexual biromantic and has a trans twin brother, and book 3 features an established m/m relationship between the leads. That’s just the tip of the iceberg; lots of the side characters are also LGBTQIA+.
Visit our Kickstarter campaign page and learn all the details, read the book blurbs and excerpts, see the merch, get to know Tris Lawrence, and more!

We’ve been live for 24 hours, and we’re already 70% funded! I’d love to hit the 100% point, tho - if you’re interested in getting the books, give the campaign a look, and even if you’re not, signal boosts are very appreciated!

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January 15, 2026

aroaessidhe:

faves of 2025: aro & ace books
this is not quite ’favourite books that happen to have aspec MCs’ or ‘favourite specifically in regard to the aspec-ness’ - somewhere in between. or a little of each. it’s only light in some of them. I read 90 aspec books in 2025.
Demon Engine
The Map and The Territory
One Morning Sun
A Letter to the Luminous Deep/A Letter From The Lonesome Shore
The Javelin Program/The Antarctica Conspiracy
Ten Incarnations of Rebellion
Ymir
The Sins on Their Bones
Everything The Sun Touches
That Devil Ambition
Vagabonds!
As Old As Thyme
Stories From The Deep/Motes of Inspiration
Holy Terrors
Something Extraordinary
Power To Yield
She Loves To Cook, She Loves to Eat
The Traitor & The Wretch

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Filed under: queer fiction queue

January 15, 2026

noahhawthorneauthor:

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Commence the 2025 Wrap Up!
I published my first historical fiction and ran my first Kickstarter, and participated in an anthology with the Right Here Write Queer Podcsst. I also was nominated in the Indie Ink Awards.
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For reading, there was a lot of rereading (and rereading again in the case of the Big Bad Series) but I did discover a lot of new favorites and other stories I really enjoyed. There was only a few that I didn’t care for as much.
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Filed under: queer fiction queue

January 15, 2026

Back the Campaign to Fund Publishing the Twinned Trilogy Today!
ALT
Starting today, and running through Wednesday, January 28th, we’re raising funds to publish the third and last book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence ( @tryslora ) ! Whether you backed the campaigns for books 1 and 2, or you’re just hearing about these books for the first time from this post, now is a great time to get one book, get two books, or get the whole trilogy so you can read the full story!
People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.
The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.
At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.
This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…
For this campaign, we’re also making some fun Pine Hills University merchandise—the crest of the fictional university as an enamel pin, a car back-window sticker, and one of our signature dux in a PHU-colored varsity jacket.
Oh and – these books are hella queer! The main character is a gay aro man, the lead of the second is asexual biromantic and has a trans twin brother, and book 3 features an established m/m relationship between the leads. That’s just the tip of the iceberg; lots of the side characters are also LGBTQIA+.
Visit our Kickstarter campaign page and learn all the details, read the book blurbs and excerpts, see the merch, get to know Tris Lawrence, and more!

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January 15, 2026

duckpetan:

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Filed under: duck prints press loves ducks ducks queue

January 14, 2026

wearethekat:

2026 Anticipated New Releases Masterpost Part 1
January through June. Asterisked titles by authors new to me.
The Poet Empress, Shen Tao (20 January). A young peasant woman in a mythological China plots her way into a position as a vicious prince’s concubine in order to save her starving family.
Enchanting the Fae Queen, Stephanie Burgis (27 January). A sorceress queen and her uptight nemesis lock horns in a dangerous fae tournament.
*Ballad of the Bone Road, AC Wise (27 January). Two paranormal investigators investigate a haunting in a city where the fae have been banished.
*Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die, Greer Stothers (3 February). Queer comedy romance in which a lazy young knight is thrown together with an evil sorcerer.
Nightshade and Oak, Molly O'Neill (3 February). An Iron Age goddess is cursed to live in the body of a human woman. f/f.
Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter, Heather Fawcett (17 February). After her premises are destroyed, a woman in forced to rent a shop above an evil wizard’s lair for her cat shelter.
The Obake Code, Makana Yamamoto (17 February). A young retired hacker is blackmailed into taking down a corrupt politician.
The Iron Garden Sutra, AD Sui (24 February). A monk lays to rest the dead in a treacherous, ruined generation ship.
The Red Winter, Cameron Sullivan (24 February). An immortal, demon-haunted magician investigates a monstrous curse in eighteenth century France.
The Fox Hunt, Caitlin Breeze (24 February). University student Emma is delighted to be included in a circle of privileged youths until she’s swept into a dangerous magical game.
Green & Deadly Things, Jen Lyon (3 March). The last necromancer is woken to fight forest monsters that threaten to engulf the land.
Entwined, HM Long (10 March). Three sisters hunt a magical artifact in an alt Gilded Age.
A Lady for All Seasons, TJ Alexander (10 March). Genderqueer x lesbian comedy of identity romance set in 1820 London.
Wolf Worm, T Kingfisher (24 March). Historical horror featuring a scientific illustrator and parasitic worms.
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me, Ilona Andrews (31 March). Portal fantasy about a woman who wakes up on the rough streets of her favorite fantasy novel.
The Subtle Art of Folding Space, John Chu (7 April). Generational trauma, family drama, and a bug in the workings of the universe.
The Rise of the Celestials, Kritika Rao (7 April). Second book of a duology retelling Hindu mythology about the apsara Meneka.
Never After, Alexis Hall (7 April). m/m romance between a prostitute and a reverend in nineteenth-century England.
*The Language of Liars, SL Huang (24 April). Novella about a spy who trains to jump in the mind of the only alien species capable of mining a vital element.
How to Fake It In Society, KJ Charles (28 April). A con man pretending to be a comte attempts to scam a shopkeeper who stands to inheritance a fortune.
The Duke, Anna Cowan (28 April). Sapphic classic Regency between a con artist pretending to be a lady and a duke in a world where women can be aristocrats in their own right.
*The Last Contract of Isako, Fonda Lee (5 May). Corporate samurai space opera.
Death’s Daughter, SA Barnes (5 May). Death’s daughter Jocasta is quietly attending university undercover when he names her as his successor and makes her a target.
Platform Decay, Martha Wells (5 May). The latest book in the Murderbot series, and a full novel.
Radiant Star, Ann Leckie (12 May). A planet on the brink of being absorbed by the Raadchai empire allows one last man to be mummified as a living saint, which has unexpected political consequences.
We Dance Upon Demons, Vaishnavi Patel (12 May). A reproductive health care worker fights both human attacks on her clinic and supernatural attacks after she develops mysterious powers.
Make Me Better, Sarah Gailey (12 May). Horror novel about a vulnerable woman pulled into a community that promises an end to loss.
*Vile Lady Villains, Danai Christopoulou (12 May). The Klytemnestra x Lady Macbeth book.
All Hail Chaos, Sarah Rees Brennan (12 May). Sequel about a young terminal cancer patient who is transported into her favorite series as a minor villain.
Palaces of the Crow, Ray Nayler (19 May). A band of children and suspicious crows surviving in Lithuania during World War I.
*Mortedant’s Peril, RJ Barker (19 May). A cleric who reads the memories of the dead must solve a mystery where he himself is the main suspect.
Startup Hell, Caitlin Rozakis (19 May). A young witch is just trying to make it in the corporate world when she discovers her boss dead in the process of summoning a demon.
The Fake Divination Offense, Sara Raasch (19 May). m/m fantasy romance about a half giant fantasy sportsball player fake dating a cheerleader.
The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty (19 May). Second Amina al-Sirafi pirate book.
Bone of My Bone, Johanna van Veen (26 May). Sapphic nun relic road trip in war-torn seventeenth century Europe.
Father Material, Alexis Hall (2 June). Book three in an ongoing romance novel series. I believe they adopt a dog.
The Unicorn Hunters, Katherine Arden (2 June). A young queen uses a fake unicorn hunt to escape being forced to marry her conqueror.
Heaven’s Graveyard, Grace Curtis (18 June). Sapphic historical mystery about an archeologist obsessed with a mythical queen.
The Dragon Has Some Complaints, John Wiswell (23 June). A three headed, three personalitied dragon infiltrates a dragon rider academy for free food.
The Tinder Box, MR Carey (23 June). Fantasy retelling of Anderson’s The Tinder Box.
Everybody’s Perfect, Jo Walton (30 June). Fantasy set in an alternate Venice.
July and later
Keep reading

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January 14, 2026

Back the Campaign to Fund Publishing the Twinned Trilogy Today!
ALT
Starting today, and running through Wednesday, January 28th, we’re raising funds to publish the third and last book of the Twinned trilogy by Tris Lawrence ( @tryslora ) ! Whether you backed the campaigns for books 1 and 2, or you’re just hearing about these books for the first time from this post, now is a great time to get one book, get two books, or get the whole trilogy so you can read the full story!
People with Talent—Mages, Dreamwalkers, shapechangers, and others—have always lived among mankind. Their existence was hidden until ten years ago, when the world was abruptly introduced to the existence of these secret magic users after a young gymnast spontaneously teleported during the Olympics. This event heralded the start of the Emergence; whereas, once, Talents were close-kept secrets that ran in family lines, now everyone knew that there were people with incredible abilities in communities all over the world.
The Emergence wrought changes at every level of society.
At Pine Hills University, a small liberal-arts college in Upstate New York, these changes have been pronounced, as the University has taken the lead in studying Talent academically: encouraging Talented students to apply, hiring Talented faculty, and debuting Talent-related curricula, minors, and majors.
This is the milieu against which the events of the Twinned trilogy unfold. Ten years has been just long enough for the young, Talented students of Pine Hills University to think they know where they fit in the world—but there are many changes yet to come…
For this campaign, we’re also making some fun Pine Hills University merchandise—the crest of the fictional university as an enamel pin, a car back-window sticker, and one of our signature dux in a PHU-colored varsity jacket.
Oh and – these books are hella queer! The main character is a gay aro man, the lead of the second is asexual biromantic and has a trans twin brother, and book 3 features an established m/m relationship between the leads. That’s just the tip of the iceberg; lots of the side characters are also LGBTQIA+.
Visit our Kickstarter campaign page and learn all the details, read the book blurbs and excerpts, see the merch, get to know Tris Lawrence, and more!

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