incidentally, Hunger's Bite has come out! if you haven't already, you should check it out. it's very good! you can probably find it at your local library, or order a copy for yourself.

A specter is haunting the Atlantic!

After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emery wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and sail the Lark forever, while Neeta yearns to travel the world. But neither will have any future at all if the Lark’s new owner, Mr. Honeycutt, has his way.
 
Mr. Honeycutt . . . The first-class passengers adore him, while he makes the ship a nightmare for the crew. Twisted by unnatural appetites, the rich are actually transforming into something less than human, and their insatiable demands soon push the staff toward a—quite literal— burnout.
 
Something otherworldly is undeniably aboard the SS Lark, something horribly hungry. But it’s not Wick Farley: vampire, secret agent, and paranormal investigator. Alone and at sea, with only Neeta and Emery to help him, he must uncover the truth about Mr. Honeycutt. And fast—before a ravenous craving for power consumes them all. 

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cover reveal!!! i've been working SO hard on this you guys (or well, i was, i finished in february) and i can finally start promoting it for pre-order! you should order it!!! pre-order sales contribute to first-day sales and make a HUGE difference toward whether i can continue with the series. so!!! pwease.

you can order it from your preferred retailer at this link!
 

so! it's been a year since i put never satisfied on hiatus, and rather than make you read everything if all you want to know is "when's it coming back?" the answer is still: don't know! but the answer has also shifted closer to "it isn't" the longer i've spent on break, and i think it's worth being up front about that.

i talked about it a little on my tumblr a few weeks ago, but the long and short of it is that between taking on better paying work, writing better stories, and looking back at what i'd already done for never satisfied... i just don't think i want to continue it? the year off has been incredibly good for my mental health, and i can't see myself wanting to go back after the two-three years still ahead of me on my current project. that's not to say i never want to return to the characters or the concept, but if i did, i imagine it would be with something completely new, in a different form. after all, i started this comic when i was 21 years old, a lesbian, and a sophomore in college. i am now just shy of 30, a bi man, and overall a completely different person than i was, back when i was writing without a plan and putting all of my insecurities into the comic--insecurities i don't identify with anymore. lord i'm closer to rothart's age than i am to lucy's. hate that

anyway. you have all been extraordinarily kind for following never satisfied for as long as you have, for supporting it as much as you have, and being as patient as you have. whatever form never satisfied takes in the future (god willing, with a more cohesive story structure and A PLAN FOR THE ENDING, WHICH BY THE WAY I NEVER, EVER HAD) i hope to see you there!

in the meantime, as an update on where i'm at with the thing that made me stop working on NS: i finished it! all the pages for Hunger's Bite (if you remember it with a different title: no you don't) have been turned in and now it's just revisions and covers and then........ waiting a year until it can come out. because that's how it is in traditionally published graphic novels! nothing releases for a full year after you finished it! and you're even getting it earlier than was originally planned, because i'm a creature and finished it like three months ahead of schedule. i've also already started thumbnailing the sequel book which i can't talk about whatsoever and will now be working on that for the next two years and then HOPEFULLY the first book will have done well enough that i can sell a third! so you better buy it when it comes out next february!!!!!!

to ease you all into it, i wanted to do a little crossover to introduce the main characters. we have emery, whose design is fully and unintentionally just Seiji Again down to his color palette (but seiji would bully him if they met. like so hard. he's a wimp). then we have neeta, a girl who dreams of travel and cares deeply about worker's rights, and wick, a vampire agent investigating the mysterious and sinister new owner of the 1910s ocean liner emery and neeta call home. he's also gay. but sorry lucy, you aren't his type. you're not mean enough.

the best place to keep up with me these days is probably my tumblr. as this first book gets closer to release, i will probably be posting about it a lot. and i will certainly post about it here when there's an official release date and cover reveal! i hope you'll go read it. i really think if you liked never satisfied and its themes, you'll like hunger's bite!

thank you again for reading!!

it's every's least favorite kind of webcomic update, but pretty much always a very necessary one.

if you haven't already heard from my social media, i have a graphic novel in the works! The Hunger on the S.S. Lark, a YA horror adventure about a vampire and a girl investigating a creature feeding on the working class in the bowels of a 1913 ocean liner. it's set to come out in spring 2025, and i've been working on it as more or less my day job for the last year, and will continue to be working on it for another as i bring it to finish.

and after working on a graphic novel full time for a year, while also working on NS... i'm tired! it's exhausting to spend my work week on comics, and then turn around and spend my weekend on comics, while also trying to make time for my other hobby projects. i don't want to do that anymore, so i'm going to put a pause on NS for the foreseeable future.

i feel like the quality of work on NS has gone down for the last while, largely due to it becoming a chore more than a passion. plus, i've never made it a secret that i write by the seat of my pants, and while that might have been fine for the first few chapters, we're at the point where i really need to take time to sit down and figure out how to wrap things up, and i can't do that while updating every week. i've always found i work better with a solid plan, and i need to stop putting it off. i'll also try to use this time to prepare the files for book 2. there's no plans in place for printing it yet, but it won't hurt to get the work done.

thank you all so much for supporting me over the years. this was a super hard decision, but trust me that the relief this'll bring to my mental health is Immense. i've been working on this comic for eight years now, and in all that time i have never taken any significant time off or missed an update. breaking that streak kills me, but carrying on as i have will kill me faster.

that said, today is the eighth anniversary of NS! it's insane that i've been doing this since i was 21, and i'll be 29 in a couple months. as is traditional, i have a new illustration featuring the main cast. this time: they're having a sleepover. with me going on break, it's the perfect time for these kids to catch up on their sleep. you can view the larger version in the print shop!

you'll still be able to keep up with me on tumblr and twitter! thank you again for sticking with me as long as you have, whether it was from the very beginning, or just this week. i'm sorry that, for however long, i'll just have to leave you......

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unsatisified

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the never satisfied reprint is out! you can still order it here!

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the new print of book 1 hit stores last week! i got my own copy and i'm delighted at how nice it looks. go check your local book store to get a copyyyyy~

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IT RELEASES TOMORROW!!!! you can still pre-order it here! 

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! this month's poll is up for all patrons! you can sub for as little as a dollar a month to vote and see the art!

never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! the suggestion box for this month is now open for $5 subscribers!

big news! never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next month!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls!

never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls!

big news! never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls!

never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! this month's poll is up now for everyone to vote on!

big news! never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! this month's suggestion box opened today for all $5 patrons!

never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls!

big news! never satisfied is returning to shelves with a new print edition from seven seas! it will collect the first five chapters of the book with a brand new cover. it releases at the end of february, and you can pre-order it here! i am going to be super obnoxious about this for the next two months!!!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! this month's poll is up, and you can vote for as little as a dollar!

you can support me on patreon for early updates, hi-res art, and voting in monthly exclusive art polls! this month's suggestion box opened for all $5 patrons!