Upcoming Appearance: Boskone
I have my Boskone schedule! I’ll be at Boskone February 9-11, and I’ll be on panels, doing an autograph session, and hanging out at the Duck Prints Press table. When everything else is done for the night, I will probably be in the gaming room with my spouse.
My schedule of panels/autographing will be…
Deeper Than Blood: Fictional Found Families - Friday, 8:30pm
Writing the Fight Scene - Saturday, 11:30am
Representation of LGBTQ+ in Pop Culture - Saturday, 2:30pm
Autographing - Saturday, 4pm
Alternative Publishing - Sunday, 10am
I have definite opinions on all of these, and am very much looking forward to this slate!
If you’re planning to be at Boskone, please feel free to poke me on social media to let me know, or come find me at any of these sessions or the DPP table! Paperbacks of the first book of my Twinned trilogy should be available at the DPP table in the dealers’ room.
January newsletter!
I sent out my January newsletter!
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Ongoing Pre-Order Campaigns: Updates!
Now that we’ve finished our month-long push for our Kickstarter campaign for Aether Beyond the Binary, we have space and time to talk about literally anything else on our social media (lol). We’ve gotten a couple private inquiries about the status of our other projects, so here’s an overview of progress on our current publishing projects (we’ve also got a couple art projects in the works, but that’s a topic for another day).
To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh
- fulfillment on the crowdfunding campaign is complete
- as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
- e-book
- print book
- tarot card and spell jar recipe postcard/art print
- trans pride mountainscape sticker
- you can also get the e-book and print-on-demand print book through major retailers and through the library of your choice – you can even special order the book at your local bookstore!
- I also have a small number of the campaign deer antler pendants left; if you want one, feel free to contact me privately!
- Missed the campaign and curious about the book? Read the first chapter as a sneak peek!
Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers
- fulfillment on the crowdfunding campaign for our most recent anthology is complete
- as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
- e-book
- print book
- campaign bookmark
- front cover magnet
- coat-of-arms enamel key chain
- musketeer dux die-cut sticker
- you can also get the e-book through major retailers and can request it through your library
- we’re working on reformatting the book to a slightly different size so that we can also offer it print-on-demand to major retailers, local bookstores, and libraries everywhere
Hockey Bois by A. L. Heard
- all merchandise has been received and prepared for distribution
- trade paperback books have been received
- the proof of the hardcover edition has been approved, and the hardcover edition is in production
- according to our book printer, BookLogix, we should expect delivery of the hardcover edition in roughly a month (around the end of February)
- once we’ve received all items necessary for fulfillment, we will send out everyone’s orders as quickly as possible
Aether Beyond the Binary
- the crowdfunding campaign for our next anthology successfully concluded yesterday!
- we are putting finishing touches on stories
- we are preparing templates suitable for printing our merchandise
- we’ve begun to gather information from backers necessary fulfillment
- most fulfillment activities are on hold until the funds clear and we can actually place orders; this will take roughly three weeks
Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley
- fulfillment on the pre-order campaign is complete
- as of January 20th, the book and leftover merch are now available on our webpage!
- e-book
- print book
- art print of the front cover
- campaign bookmark
- tiger transforming to a goose enamel pin
- tiger transforming to a goose dux die-cut sticker
- you can also get the e-book and print-on-demand print book through major retailers and through the library of your choice – you can even special order the book at your local bookstore!
- I also have a small number of the campaign “Eye of Sacarus” pendants left; if you want one, feel free to contact me privately!
- Missed the campaign and curious about the book? Read the first chapter as a sneak peek!
Other Projects
- Many Hands: An Anthology of Polyamorous Erotica: stories for this collection are being edited, with progress ranging from “barely started” to “almost done.” We’re just beginning to discuss the books internal appearance, and are waiting on the final cover from the artist we’re working with. We expect to release the contributor list in the next few weeks and hope to crowdfund the anthology during the spring.
- Untitled Best Of Anthologies: we’ll be doing two anthologies – one general imprint and one explicit imprint – featuring stories published to our Patreon and webpage before September 31, 2023. Most of the stories have been set, and we’ll beginning work on the cover and campaign features soon. We expect to launch this during the summer of 2024.
- A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: recruitment for this anthology closed on January 15th, and we will be selecting contributors and notifying them by January 31st. We expect this campaign to be ready for launch in roughly a year (late 2024 or early 2025).
- Untitled General Imprint Anthology: we’re in the very preliminary stages of discussing a theme for our next general imprint anthology, and we expect to open recruitment for it in the late spring, with an expected publication date of summer, 2025.
- Scrap Metal Angel by Nicola Kapron: our next novella project, we are working on final editing, and once that’s done we’ll begin work on a cover, artwork, and other campaign aspects. We don’t yet have a time frame on pre-orders, but definitely during 2024, before the fall.
- The Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence: we still have a great deal of editing to complete on this project, but covers are done and the pre-launch page is on Kickstarter. We’re aiming for spring or summer 2024 for crowdfunding.
- We have several other novellas and novels in the pipeline, but none that we’re ready to announce yet. Be on the look-out!
Want to always know the latest on what we’re working on? Want a say in what we work on next? Want behind-the-scenes access, more information, awesome extras, free stories, and more? Want exclusive extra merch for supporting our future campaigns? Best yet: want the joy of supporting queer independent publishing? If you said “yes” to any of these, there’s no time like today to become a backer of our Patreon!
Aether Beyond the Binary
I have wanted to read this set of stories since the anthology was first announced. The more I see, the more I cannot wait, so I really REALLY want to see it fund.
4 days left, and about $2300 to goal. 83% funded. SO CLOSE.
November Newsletter
I just posted/sent my first newsletter! Anyone subscribed to the email list will have a copy already, and patrons can see it on Patreon. The newsletter will be available publicly on Patreon on the last day of the month, so if you follow my Patreon without support you can still read along.
Paid patrons will also get a second newsletter each month on Patreon with some behind the scenes information and potentially snippets.
If you’re interested in hearing from me monthly (sometimes more!), please subscribe!
newsletter!
I have created an author mailing list!
Thank you, folks, for the recommendation of Buttondown–it is stripped down and does exactly what I need and I will probably be happy to pay for it should I ever somehow get more than 100 subscribers. (I will be doing dances of glee should I get more than 100 subscribers).
So far I have subscribed to my own list and sent out a test email. I need to do some more template formatting, I know, and I will get there. Someday there will be a header image. For now, however, straight text with some formatting will have to do.
So, if anyone wants to subscribe to my fledgling newsletter, you should be able to do so via my Buttondown page.
I don’t plan to post a newsletter more than monthly, unless I’ve got an imminent THING happening. There will probably be more posts in lead-up days to an indy release, or while a crowdfunding campaign for PHU print editions via DPP is happening. I’ll send out a convention schedule if I’m on programming. But I don’t want to spam anyone.
I did manage to get the form to subscribe embedded properly into my official Author Site. My next steps are getting it linked on other social media (and setting up a Carrd site because yes, I’m aware that’s a thing I should have, too).
My big next step with the author page is getting a contact me form set up. Last one I tried just wasn’t working out for me. I’ve got another one that I think will work better.
I may not be making words, but it’s been a productive November at least.
Astronomicon
I will be Astronomicon in Rochester NY the last weekend in October. I’ll be doing panels, as well as a reading and an autographing session. Come see me!
Astronomicon
October 27-29, 2023
Rochester, New YorkSaturday 10am - Reading - Council Room
Saturday Noon - Autographing - Cayuga/Mohawk
Saturday 3pm - Different types of publishing - Oneida
Saturday 4pm - Is the Internet killing SF? - Oneida
Sunday 11am - Elder Heroes - Onondaga/SenecaI will have copies of books with me including the anthologies Game On!, and He Bears the Cape of Stars as well as the early print copies of my novel Commit to the Kick. I do not have a vending table, but will have copies at panels/autographing.
canon: they died
fanfic: fUCK YOU
Canon: and so they never met
Fanfic: here’s a funny story
Canon: There was tension and pining, but they never even kissed.
Fanfic: Actually,
Canon: Torture the cinnamon roll.
Fanfic: Torture the cinnamon roll.
Canon: When they traveled they stayed in separate rooms
Fanfic: AND. THERE. WAS. ONLY. ONE. BED!!!!!
Canon: … and they were roommates.
Fanfic: oh my god, they were roommates…
Canon: They were international assassins who assassinated assassins.
Fanfic: But hot DAMN wait till you hear about this cafe they opened
Canon: They had a coffeeshop
Fanfic: but they were ASSASSINS
Canon: they were mortal enemies and attempted to murder each other on multiple occasions
Fanfic: bUT THEY GOT MARRIED AND ADOPTED CHILDREN
Everytime I reblog this has a new addition and it’s the best
Canon: They were straight
Fanfic: Lol
THE LAST ONE IS THE BEST ONE
I love fanfic so so so much.
Canon: Am I joke to you?
Fanon: No, just a disappointment.
I wasn’t going to reblog then the last line killed me.
If I don’t reblog this. assume I’m dead and avenge my death.
Canon: So yeah, it’s one sided
Fanon: Yeah, One Sided but make it Mutual
Canon: So yeah, it was Mutual
Fanfic: For all three of them
Canon: hits a character with an object
Fandom: we ship it
I always feel so inadequate when this comes across my dash and I have nothing witty to add.
(via ironicsnowflake)
Pre-Orders Now Open for “Many Drops Make a Stream” by Adrian Harley!
Pre-orders for Adrian Harley’s debut sapphic fantasy novel Many Drops Make a Stream are now open!
A memory-stealing cult.
The ever-watchful City of Eyes.
Making small talk.
Join Droplet as she faces all these horrors and more…Vigilante shapeshifter Droplet has trained her entire life to take down those with more power than scruples, but she still makes mistakes. When a rescue mission goes wrong, a memory-stealing cult of blood mages escapes with kidnapped captives in tow. To save them, Droplet reluctantly teams up with the outgoing, tenacious Azera. Droplet knows better than to trust a human—she made that mistake once, and that person’s betrayal scattered her community across the known world—and she can tell Azera is hiding secrets behind her sunny smile. But if they can’t learn to work together, even Droplet’s own memories could be lost.
Many Drops Make a Stream, Adrian Harley’s debut novel, is the stand-alone first book in a series of related fantasy-mystery-heists featuring the shapeshifter Droplet and the friends and found family who work alongside her to fight the corrupt powers-that-be. Many Drops Make a Stream is rated general (adult) audiences and features shapeshifting shenanigans, a nascent f/f quarrelers-to-lovers pre-relationship, a wonderful extended cast of family and pseudo-family, necromancy and blood magic and spellwork (oh my!), and one (1) very angry goose.
For this campaign, we’re offering:
- Many Drops Make a Stream e-book (ePub and PDF formats)
- Many Drops Make a Stream digest-sized trade paperback book (bonus: every single print book comes with a bookplate signed by Adrian Harley!)
- Droplet!Dux Die-Cut Sticker
- Many Drops Make a Stream Cover Art Print
- Shapeshifting Droplet Enamel Pin
- Patron-exclusive extra wooden coaster (for people who support Duck Prints Press at the $10/month and $25/month level on Patreon and back this campaign)
Better yet, you can get a discount by picking one of three bundles:
- Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Merchandise
- Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Print Book
- Many Drops Make a Stream E-Book + Print Book + Merchandise
You can learn all about the book, the author, the campaign, and our offerings by visiting the pre-order page NOW!
Want a chance to win a trade paperback copy of Many Drops Make a Stream? Help us spread the word about this campaign by liking and signal boosting our posts on any of our platforms that including “sharing” functionality (such as Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Facebook), and you can get up to 4 entries per platform where you share!*
Campaign backers will also get bonuses based on the number of signal boosts our posts receive! All the social media links for sharing are on the linked pre-order page, so help us tell the world about the awesome book, and who knows – you might win a copy! (But only if we fund, ’cause we can’t afford to print the book if we don’t fund, so help us make sure people who want to buy The Awesome learn that The Awesome exists!)
*sweepstakes rules and conditions