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How could you NOT fall in love with the glow of the moon and stars, the warmth of the sun, the ancient life within the trees, and the sweet melodies of the winds?

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All You Want for the Holidays by Quinton Li

Perrin Pavlou is finally accepted into the Sunlit Creative Space residency program after applying for every round to date. With promises of a luxury villa in a sunny beach town, artistic strangers to find companionship in, and a week to work on her photo collection dedicated to the residency's experience, she is ready to embrace her long-desired dream.

Until she finds out that her ex-best friend is the only resident she'll be spending the rest of the week and Christmas with.

Inari Kan wants to start doing things for themself. Their people-pleasing tendencies and high-masking high-functioning lifestyle means they're longing for a holiday to just relax, write, and be themself.

But how are they supposed to do that when they're spending almost every moment of their days with their high-school crush?

All You Want for the Holidays is a second-chance sapphic romance published as part of Home for the Holidays, a collection of standalone novellas connected by a singular theme: spreading queer joy during the holiday season. The collection features novellas by Jay Leigh, Quinton Li, Valerie Gomez, Anna Sparrows, Kerry Kilpatrick, Micah Carver, Arden Coutts, C.S. Autumn, E.L. Ough, Emily Axon, and Dallas Smith.

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me while writing: ah yes, this character should do this, it feels so natural with what they're saying

me while editing: why the FUCK does he lean on the doorway SEVENTEEN TIMES IN THIS CHAPTER

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shoes are made up of strange, perverse, occult shapes

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i wish my book was written so i could share it and talk to more people about it but unfortunately that's going to take 79 business years. approximately

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Five gothic + horror romances Happy Halloween! 🎃

My books

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The Bone People

Keri Hulme

The powerful, visionary, Booker Award-winning novel about the complicated relationships between three outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage"This book is just amazingly, wondrously great." --Alice Walker In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes: part Maori, part European, asexual and aromantic, an artist estranged from her art, a woman in exile from her family. One night her solitude is disrupted by a visitor--a speechless, mercurial boy named Simon, who tries to steal from her and then repays her with his most precious possession. As Kerewin succumbs to Simon's feral charm, she also falls under the spell of his Maori foster father Joe, who rescued the boy from a shipwreck and now treats him with an unsettling mixture of tenderness and brutality. Out of this unorthodox trinity Keri Hulme has created what is at once a mystery, a love story, and an ambitious exploration of the zone where indigenous and European New Zealand meet, clash, and sometimes merge.

Winner of both a Booker Prize and Pegasus Prize for Literature, The Bone People is a work of unfettered wordplay and mesmerizing emotional complexity.

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Now Available – Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica

Duck Prints Press is thrilled to share that our debut explicit anthology, Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica, is now available to the general public! This project successfully crowdfunded over the summer, and we fulfilled our Kickstarter campaign in September; now, the book and leftover merch can be yours, even if you missed the campaign!

For those who love their short stories spicy, we’re delighted to bring you Duck Prints Press’s debut explicit anthology Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica. In this collection of 15 brand-new stories, we celebrate many flavors of polyamory. Orgy? Yes please! Ménage à trois? C’est magnifique! Foursomes and moresomes? Delighted to attend! We asked our contributors to blow our minds with their fun combinations, unusual settings, favorite trope usage, and (of course) super sexy smut—and they didn’t disappoint. From a vampire free-for-all to a heartfelt reunion, from surprise soulmates to enemies-to-lovers, this collection has polyamory in lots of scrumptious varieties that lovers of erotica won’t want to miss!

Now Available:

Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica in e-book and trade paperback formats! (of course!)

polyamorous symbolism temporary tattoo sheet (our Kickstarter stretch goal merch!) with art by Jared Powell

poly pride dragon enamel key chain with art by reshipkmn

poly pride dux die-cut sticker with art by Alessa Riel

Many Hands bookmark with art by Aaron Kotze

Get your book and merch TODAY!

This book will also be available through major retailers and libraries within the next couple weeks, so be on the lookout!

We have no leftovers of the other campaign merch – the salamander pin, cover art print, or lemon love candle.

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🚀 WHEREVER THE STARS CALL 🚀

Sometimes, a family can be two runaways, a vampire space captain without his ship, a pilot with common sense, a cybernetic cat, and a severed head that might be alive.

Join Laurel and Juniper in their misadventures across the Solar System as they try to find a place for themselves. There's heists, vampires, grave robbing, danger, bounty hunters, and adventure!

OUT NOW!!

You can get it through itchio or at retailers!!

See you, space vampires!!

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Ghazzawi fundraiser priority list!

These are fundraisers that my vetter Mohammed Ayesh has told me are high priority either due to the low amount of funds or due to the situation the person is in. If you donate to any of these, please leave a screenshot below so to encourage others to donate to the fundraiser!

Hazem Mohammed Al-Bardaweel: Hazem has lost his wife and children in a bombing that injured him badly. He needs help starting anew while grieving the loss of his family to genocide.

Hossam Bardaweel: Hossam has lost his parents and all his siblings, and is now left to care for his siblings' children and widows on his own. He needs help supporting them while grieving the loss of his family to genocide.

Namer Matar: Namer has lost his baby due to a sudden illness that affected his newborn twins. The family is devastated, and his wife is struggling with postpartum in conditions of genocide while grieving her newborn.

Mohammed Matar: Mohammed's entire future as a water infrastructure engineer, and the company he was setting the building blocks for are all gone. He now has to care for his children and his wife struggling with postpartum in conditions of genocide.

Rania Youssef: Rania's father was the breadwinner of the family. He suffered from an untreated chronic illness that took his life during the acceleration of the genocide. She needs help taking care of her family while they grieve this immense loss.

Maha Madhoun: Eman's elderly mother enduring chronic illnesses without access to vital medication. Their escape from the relentless bombardment of warplanes, dodging bullets and navigating through a sea of injured and deceased, is a haunting ordeal etched into their memory.

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Gentle reminder that often creativity decides to hibernate for a bit.

It’s okay.  You’re not broken, you’re resting, and much like spring, creativity comes back.

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Wanna' come back to my place? I was thinking you might pierce my heart and spill its blood in a frenzy of barbarous delight.

Father Ardelian has been summoned to a distant, secluded island to perform an exorcism. What will happen when he begins to suspect his host — the mysterious, nocturnal lord of the manor — of wanting him for another reason entirely? Will the piously celibate priest be able to resist the monster’s diabolically seductive charms?

What Manner of Man is a queer gothic romance novel about a priest and a vampire.

Preorder the novel here OR read the free draft!

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adhd makes you type like you keep forgetting every word as soon as it's written out

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I just saw a post that said if you visually imagine a scene in your head while you write, you're an illiterate who has no business writing and shouldn't do it because you obviously just want to make a movie instead. It had five thousand notes. What in the absolute fuck is the state of artistic discourse right now

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Stake Sauce, Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient Is Love. No, Really by RoAnna Sylver

ARC 1, IN WHICH: A cute punk-rock vampire and a disabled firefighter-turned-mall-cop with a dark past join forces to battle the forces of evil.

Jude used to leap out of helicopters to rescue/protect people from terrifying infernos. Now, by day, he protects the local mall from rowdy teenagers who ride their skateboards inside. By night, he protects the the parking lot, and the rest of Portland, from undead, bloodsucking creatures of the darkness. Or would if he could find them. But he’s just about ready to give it up (living with PTSD and pain from the traumatic event that cost him a leg, a friend, and a lot more is hard enough), when something crashes into his life. And his window. It’s one of these creatures of the darkness - and he’s a lot less scary than expected. More cuddly, with dark fuzzy wings, and neon-bright hair.

His name is Pixie, and he refuses to bite anyone. Assault/murder/draining fluids isn’t punk, even if being a vampire really kind of is. He’s very hungry by now, and the much bigger, meaner, deadlier vamps kick him around on the nightly. Jude would love to find and fight some actual undead bullies. And Pixie could use some help staying… ‘alive.’ Time to make a deal.

Of course, life still sucks when you’re a vampire who refuses to suck blood. Fortunately, there’s a really interesting new barbecue restaurant in the mall, with an intriguing new recipe. (We hear that the secret ingredient is… love. No, really.)

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THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT is Out TODAY!

I started this story back in 2017, and today in 2024, The Cradle of Eternal Night is available for you to read. It’s my standalone sapphic fantasy romance horror about a bard and witch on a quest to return the celestial lights to their world swallowed by darkness. So far, it’s been called hopeful, disgusting, beautiful, evocative, and beautiful. Basically, it’s a dark fantasy romance that only I…

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One more week until Wherever the Stars Call, my sci fi adventure feat. vampires is out in the world! I'm very excited (and a little terrified) & I hope everyone likes it. 🚀

This is also one of my favorite quotes from the book. Thanks Cedar.

Living within the federation isn't all it's cracked up to be, so Laurel and Juniper decide to run away from it. If they can get past Jupiter where the fed's hold isn't as tight, they can figure out what they want to do with their lives on their own terms. Unfortunately, along the way, they find a busted federation ship with a vampire on board who may need their help... or their blood.

More information, where to buy, and all helpful links here!