#print anthology

[wildwillowmagazine]

STILL 2 SPOTS LEFT! Get your recipes and accompanying poetry/artwork in before we fill up! Submit to our first print issue! https://theminisonproject.com/minipress

[duckprintspress]

Cover Reveal for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”

HAPPY COVER REVEAL DAY! Duck Prints Press’s next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, will be crowdfunding starting November 20th, 2024. We’ve been hard at work on this collection for a loooong time and we are thrilled to finally be making it available for y’all. The gorgeous cover art, made by artist Aceriee, was inspired by the classic 1898 “peacock edition of Pride and Prejudice – but of course, we made it queerer. The spectacular full cover is wrap around.

(spoilers: this art will be offered a postcard as one of the Kickstarter campaign backer rewards!)

This awesome book features 21 stories each up to 5,000 words long and 20 full-page color artworks. Our campaign features six merch items, too, with peacocks standing proud on much of the art.

Want to be sure you don’t miss the campaign? Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page now!

Become a Patreon backer to get behind-the-scenes access to sneak peeks and more!

[catprinx]

Here is my final shop update for the year! You can find my store here!!! I put in a ton of new charms and books, including non-kickstarter versions of @glimmr-mag! Go check it out, share with a friend, etc<3

[fowlfics]

🤎🧡💛Pigment of Imagination opened PreOrders! 💚💙💜

(*note - I'm just an overexcited contributor spreading the news over tumblr xD)

The day has finally come - it's time to fill our lives with a spot of colour! :D

You can see everything on the bigcartel - pigmentofimagination.bigcartel.com - or check out the twitter/bsky account!

Click keep reading for my excited yapping :3c

We've got a bunch of bundles available - digital, zine-only, merch-only, flat and full - and they're all chock-full of colourful goodies filled with symbolism!!!

For digitals, we have a bunch of exquisite luffy emotion emojis by @kenas-artstuff , a cute seraphim colouring page by @eks-art and a delicious printable shopping list by @orangeramphastosart !

For physical merch, we have the flats: three prints - Cora-san with the mini-Hearts by @/florakitz , rainbow strawhats and mini-print of Barto by by @veaski - a gorgeous double-sided Pell & Chaka bookmark by @softcenteregg , and an intense paint fight stickersheet by @/kenas-artstuff!

And then the 3D stuff! A pin of Cora-san (can never have enough of him!!) in a flower pot and a memopad with alllll the girls (Isuka, Nami, Hibari, Monet, Tashigi, Robin and Reiju!) by @/AKAbFlare , a sweet charm of Zoro with marimo balls around him by @hokage , a set of 8 character badges (The Warlords - Blackbeard, Mihawk, Doflamingo, Boa, Law, Kuma, Jinbe - and, of course, Buggy, all of whom you can absolutely arrange on your board like those wheel art challenges!) by @softcenteregg and, finally, a bubbly charm of Law using a Room on his unsuspecting crew and the cutest Chopper-themed washi tape by @/orangeramphastosart !

Honestly, I think the flat bundle is a steal - the wholeass zine and all the flat merch, for just $25? $35 if you add on the digital goodies, which includes the anthology with nearly a dozen amazing fics by so many great authors (and myself!)? An incredible deal!

I bet you've never seen this many fics and art pieces in a single project! And they're all absolutely stunning ✨ Keep an eye out - there's going to be previews shared in the next few weeks 💜

And not only are there SUUUUPER stretch goals, there's also this beautiful early-bird sticker of Usopp (made by Kena) for all the orders placed in the first 48 hours!!

[rexwrendraws]

Sandcastles: Year One, A Sandman Fan-Fic Anthology ⏳

To celebrate The Sandman's one year anniversary this past weekend (how has it been a year already!?), I started a self-indulgent project and decided I wanted to take a crack at typesetting for the very first time.

So, I'm very proud to present: Sandcastles, an 180-page digital anthology that celebrates some of my favorite Sandman fics from the past year! Sandcastle collects shorter fics ranging from gen to mature, and is print-ready and available to be downloaded for free. Through this anthology, I hope others can get the same joy from these fics the same way I did over the past year (think of it as a glorified fic rec list)! (And, if anyone's interested, the print-ready files are available for download as well, if anyone wanted to print their own copy of Sandcastles!)

✨ Download Sandcastles here!

Thank you to all the authors for giving me permission to include their work in this anthology! This is my love letter to all of your work! Please check them out and leave a kind word or two!

The fics included in Sandcastles, in order of the Table of Contents, are the following:

Companions - Picture_Yourself (@anthrossandman)

Fridays - hardly_an_escape (@hardly-an-escape)

Warning Sign - issylra (@issylra)

Snacktime - fishydwarrows (@fishfingersandscarves)

Stray - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Aulon Raid - moorishflower (@moorishflower)

Unbidden Miracles - mostlybuddingthoughts (@mostlybuddingthoughts)

Available - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Points of View - cuubism (@cuubism)

Fern-Fevered - notallsandmen (notallmaenads) (@notallsandmen)

The Last - secondjulia (@secondjulia)

Scratch a Little Itch - sanyumi (@valeriianz)

Simple Dreams of Comfort - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

The Apocalypse is Nigh! - cuubism (@cuubism)

To Those Who Dare Wonder - Astrophel_Hireath (@mentallyinvernation)

The Perils of Inebriation - Lilibet (@the-slow-arrow)

Touch - softestpunk (@softest-punk)

Passing the Time - Anonymous

I'm Stuck on You (I'm Mighty Glad You Stayed) - hardly_an_escape (@hardly-an-escape)

Hob Gadling vs. The British Museum (Unknown Artist, c. 2022, Oil on Canvas) - TheAllKnowingOwl (@theallknowingowl)

This also counts as my submission for Day 1 of @mr-sadman 's Sandmanniversary 2023 prompts (Collection) :)

_ _ _ _ _ (Post & files updated — 29.08.2023)

[gamenburger]

THE BONUS CONTENT IS OUT!

Wow, substack *really* doesn't want you to control how your post looks when linked to, does it???

I go into behind the scenes content, my art process, as well as musings on the direction the zine took as well as plans for the future.

In addition, I also went back and provided additional, better print versions of my zine- it should look good both at home AND professionally printed! Please distribute however you like!! Seriously, litter this in a coffee shop you love, or donate it to a little library!

[spelllingandthemysteryschool]

i’ve received so many really cool books for free these past couple of months… five from a local indie press i was involved with over the summer… six from my current workplace…

[revindicatedbyhistory]

everytime someone from another country talks about the problems in argentina they make it sound as if argentina was in the middle of a civil war or something

[reii-ichi]

Preview

The preview of my pieces for Love After Love @sasusakuzines 🍅🌸fanzine:

Youkai AU ukiyo-e styled art print

High School AU after school first date diecut sticker

Ukiyo-e styled memo pad of cat!suke on a sakura branch

📆 Preorders open till DEC 5, so 🛒 grab yours here! 💕

Psstt! There's an NSFW digital side zine too! And below is a preview of my piece for that...

Ever think of another use of kagebunshin no jutsu? Papa!suke is practicing it here...

that's it, for now....

Well, if you're interested, just go get this zine before it's too late~

Thank you! ❤️

[marlynnofmany]

Where Wormholes Come From

As much as I was enjoying my Engine Rings™ cheesy snacks — and that was a great deal, since I’d just discovered them on a human-run space station — it wasn’t so much of a distraction that I didn’t notice worried voices as I walked past the cockpit.

I paused in the doorway to see Wio in her chair, tentacles adjusting the controls with nervous speed while Kavlae stood and pointed at one of the displays. I had no idea what that screen showed. But the two pilots sure seemed to, and it didn’t look good.

“Are you sure it’s organic?” Wio was asking.

“It has to be!” Kavlae said, head frills flaring. “I’ve never seen this kind of reading on anything else. Not even new technology.”

Wio muttered something unintelligible, tapping buttons and turning dials. She didn’t react when I folded my bag of crunchy snacks and shoved it in a pocket.

I leaned into the room. “Is something wrong?”

Kavlae looked up at that, the picture of blue-skinned concern. “Possibly,” she admitted. “Dangerous, at any rate. I was making a final sweep for the end of my shift, and I think I’ve found a fresh wormhole.”

I waited for more information, but didn’t get any. “Why is that bad?”

“Because it clearly wasn’t made with any technology I’ve seen,” Kavlae said with a melodramatic sweep of a hand. “There are organic traces and rough edges. This is fresh.”

Before I could repeat my question, Wio chimed in. “And a fresh wormhole might mean the worm is still around, among other things.”

“Uh,” I said. Apparently my Earth-bound education about space travel had missed a key point. “I did not know wormholes are made by actual worms. I thought people built them? Or they just happen?”

“People do build them,” Wio said. She finished messing with the controls and twisted her tentacles around each other. “And the way they ‘just happen’ is because of the space worms. Which we don’t want to get anywhere near.”

Kavlae waved me forward. “You’ve got good color vision, right? See if anything long and wiggly shows up on these scans. It’ll be subtle; they’re probably in deep.”

I stepped up to the row of small screens under the main one, full of questions. “Deep in what, hyperspace? Why do we want to avoid them? Are they predatory? Or territorial, or easily startled?” The main screen just showed the usual stars, but the little ones were a riot of charts and diagrams. Kavlae pointed at the one that was an incomprehensible swirl of yellow and green.

“Yes, hyperspace,” Wio said.

“They’re not predatory,” Kavlae said with certainty.

“Well, how do we know?” Wio countered.

“There have been studies!” Kavlae said. “They eat the fabric of space-time itself, not spaceships.”

“What about the chewy center of those spaceships?” Wio retorted.

“There have been studies,” Kavlae insisted.

Part of the green image did look a little wormy. I wondered whether I should interrupt, not sure if I was imagining it, then I remembered Eggskin the medic’s offhand comment on how good human eyesight was in picking out shades of green — just like edible vs non-edible plants back home. Maybe the two pilots really couldn’t see something that I could.

“Is that—” I started.

“Anyways, it’s not the space worms you need to worry about,” Wio spoke over me. “It’s the space moles that follow.”

The universe has perfect timing, because that was the moment a clear green line appeared on the chart, straight as an arrow and moving fast.

Kavlae squeaked, pointing at the screen.

Wio made a popping noise that I recognized as a swear word, and pressed several buttons at once.

A snakelike shape the color of starlight erupted into sight on the main screen, glowing as it curled back down a brand new wormhole, right in front of our ship. Which stopped in its tracks, all three of us yelling in surprise.

But that was nothing compared to the enormous black shape that clawed its way out of the starfield in hot pursuit. It was a different shade of black from the void of space, but I couldn’t say which. All I made out in that adrenaline-filled moment was claws, teeth, and terrifyingly large.

We screamed in three different octaves as the ripples in space hit the ship, rocking it even with the artificial gravity. I heard something crash down the hall. Other people were yelling. They didn’t matter.

The space mole really was going after the worm, not us — it plowed back down into the surface of reality, digging in a way that shouldn’t have been possible. And it was so, so fast.

The mole disappeared with one last kick of a barely-seen foot or tail or something else. The starfield rippled and shook like the surface of a pond. I realized I was clutching the back of Wio’s chair. Alarms were going off on the console.

After a moment in which nothing else jumped out at us, I managed to convince my fingers to let go. Kavlae collapsed into her own chair. The little screen was calm yellow. Without a word, Wio changed our course to somewhere presumably safer.

Running footsteps sounded in the hall, leading to a traffic jam of concern in the doorway: all tentacles and frills and very wide eyes. A calm but stern voice cut through the chatter. The crowd parted to let Captain Sunlight through, every inch the levelheaded and unflappable role model who wasn’t about to let some turbulence and screaming rattle her. She was wiping what looked like orange soup off one yellow-scaled hand. But she did it with dignity.

“What happened?” she asked.

I answered first. “Space worm and a space mole.”

“Really,” the captain said while the hallway exploded into conversation.

“They almost hit us!” Kavlae exclaimed, waving arms and frills from where she sat slumped in her chair.

“Any damage?” Captain Sunlight asked.

“Nope,” Wio said, with surprising cheer. “And I have better news.” She manipulated the controls some more, then sat back as a framed image appeared in the middle of the main screen. “I got a recording.”

Everyone exclaimed about that while the captured footage played. I was torn between watching it again because it was amazing, and watching the little yellow screen for more hints of green. I tried to do both.

“Well done,” Captain Sunlight said. “I know just the scientists to give first shot at that recording. And knowing them, this may end up in a very lucrative bidding war. You just make sure you get us to our destination safely!”

“Absolutely, Captain!” Wio said with a twirl of a tentacle. “I will keep a close eye on all the readouts.”

“I’ll help,” I volunteered, eyeing a suspicious green tinge that was probably nothing.

“I will take a nap,” Kavlae declared. “Then come back early.”

Wio waved her toward the crowded doorway. “Take your time! You need some rest after that. Don’t worry; we’ll scream if there’s anything important.”

“I’ll remind you that we do have an intercom,” said the captain drily.

I replied, “Screaming’s faster.”

Wio said at the same time, “We’ll scream over the intercom if there’s anything important.”

Captain Sunlight huffed in amusement. “Of course you will. Right! Everyone else, go check the ship for damaged items. Mur, help Mimi in the engine room. Paint, go with Eggskin; medbay first, then kitchen.” She rattled off more assignments to make sure all the important rooms were looked into. Then she ushered everyone on their way, and headed back to whatever she’d been doing. Probably cleaning up spilled soup.

With a glance at Wio, I took Kavlae’s chair, hands folded carefully in my lap. The snacks in my pocket crinkled. I left them there — I wasn’t about to make a mess in the cockpit, nor would I touch a single thing.

But that yellow-and-green swirl, oh I would be watching that very carefully.

~~~

The ongoing backstory adventures of the main character from this book. More to come!

[terrible-eel]

My comic, 'Let Her Be Evil' is up for Outstanding Anthology at the 2024 Ignatz Awards!

To request a ballot and vote for me and the many other hard-working co-creators, click here.

There are tons of amazing writers and illustrators from all walks of life, doing their best to create stories with unapologetically evil female characters.

I personally was able to add my own experience as a queer writer with my story about a child's discontentment with their gender identity and the monsters that drove them to seek their own path in adulthood.

I was welcomed happily into this anthology by Cassandra, who pushed to maintain my voice throughout the editing process.

Its been a wonderful experience and it would mean so much if we could win this prize and bring more attention to these unique stories.

[wildwillowmagazine]

There are still 5 spots left in our MiniPress Recipe Anthology project. We have been researching set dressings to create the perfect feel for the antho! It's starting to feel real! Get your recipes and stories in before all spots fill up! https://theminisonproject.com/minipress

[duckprintspress]

Back “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” Today!

We’re thrilled to announce that the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is now live on Kickstarter – and already selected by them as a project they love!

With this third installment in our Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology series, we set out to explore the truth by which we at Duck Prints Press live: that a classic work without a single canonically queer character must be in want of a very LGBTQIA+ makeover! A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, with 21 short stories and 20 full-page color artworks, is just that. 38 creators have contributed to this project, drawing inspiration from Pride and Prejudice’s characters and story to create delightful, thoughtful, intriguing, and (of course) very queer fanworks and Pride and Prejudice-inspired original works. For this collection, we encouraged our creators to focus on Sapphic/wlw relationships and/or transgender and genderqueer interpretations for their inspiration, though those are definitely not the only types of queer we’ve fit into this diverse collection. We’re also offering an awesome array of merchandise – art prints and note cards and an enamel pin and a folding fan and more!

We’ll be posting more information about the campaign and the contributing creators throughout the next couple weeks, so make sure to give us a follow on social media.

This campaign ends on December 5th 2024 – don’t miss your chance to get all this awesome stuff! Become a backer today!

It’s also a great time to become a Patreon backer – and you’ll get a free bonus piece of merch if you back both the “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” campaign and are a $10/month or $25/month level supporter!

[hermit-writes]

Hermit Prints — Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

This project was for Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica by @duckprintspress.

For those who love their short stories spicy, we're delighted to announce Duck Prints Press's debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica.

The cover image of the book continues to be too sexy for the tumblr censorship bots. Sorry about that! Interior pictures below, however.

Interior page, featuring the story title, author name, decorative elements, and story tags.

[diaryofageekgirl]

Aether Beyond the Binary moodboards 7/17: Finding Resonance by Bettina Juszak

Aether Beyond the Binary is an anthology by @duckprintspress, featuring stories of characters with genders outside the binary exploring modern-esque worlds changed by magical aether!

[polycraftory]

We are back with this week's book haul! This is everything we got between 9/24/24 - 9/30/24.

Tuna (our littol cat friend) is shocked! Shocked!!! at what a good deal we were able to get on the full series of Solo Leveling. It was too good a deal to pass up (even this close to NYCC when we are trying to save money😅)! We also snagged @rainbowcrate's edition of Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender, which is another book with polyamory rep to add to our collection!

It was the best sort of surprise when my very first Rosemei danmei novel: You're Too OP! by Yi Xiu Luo arrived from Yiggybean (Rosemei's US distributor) this week. I am really working to expand our danmei collection beyond what Seven Seas is translating.

Also!!! TWO whole Kickstarters that I backed came in this week: Many Hands, a polyamory erotica anthology, by @duckprintspress and the Game Master's Guide for the Tales of the Valiant TTRPG by Kobold Press.

We are really in the depths of con crunch in this last few weeks before NYCC, but we are still trying to make time to read so wish us luck!