Kay Davault

Thank you so much 🥹

A graphic showing the cover for The Library of Memories, featuring a number of comments pointing towards the cover including: "omg it's real!" "look how pretty!" "it's me! Mom, I made it!" as well as a travel stamp with the release date of August 25th, 2026

The cover of The Library of Memories has been revealed and @lazyfishy.bsky.social and I can't WAIT to welcome you to the world we created!✨

You can pre-order the book and join the newsletter to get any upcoming news first here: www.thelibraryofmemories.com

OUT AUGUST 25TH, 2026!📚

These are all so dang cute Renee 🥺🥺🥺

I also wanted to mention I’m not with the guild, but please show these artists some support! If you enjoyed HW comics, they’ve made a new site for them! Webcomics are HARD, and the passion behind them deserves to be praised.

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Thank you 🥺💙 im glad it could help inspire you!

Thank you for following for so long!

Ugh ugh ugh I feel so sick reading everyone’s experiences and how similar it all is. I’m so sorry you were treated that way.

qAq ❤️ hope you and Zack are taking care!

OW’s with an actual publisher now that actually cares about it, and I’m really grateful for that. If you’re a young creative that signs a contract with any company, please always be wary. It’s so easy to just go with something because it seems like the only opportunity you have. It’s not, I promise!

Anyway…when I posted OW on Webtoons Canvas and got 1000% more views/follows/comments than I ever got on HW, I realized the problem wasn’t me. The problem was I just wasted 3 years of my life with a bogus company lol.

I ended up having to get professional help for my mental health. I still can’t believe I even finished chapter 2 because the burn out was so real. I always felt bad for ending the webcomic without saying much, but there was… a lot going on.

I asked for new notes, but was handed off to another editor because Isa was now too busy for my comic. The new editor had very off-topic notes and clearly didn’t read the comic. I was so stressed out that I started to hate the work I was making. I was depressed. I knew I had to stop.

Eventually I realized they just didn’t care about every comic they had, but also that my comic MUST be bad. At the end, I ended up having a meeting with my “editors” who basically said “eh it’s not that bad but we can fix it”. Like what?? You’ve been editing my comic this whole time!

HW had both digital and physical exclusivity to my work, which was wild considering they did nothing for me. My ads barely ever ran. I spend hours refreshing to see if they were, asked HW for confirmation, and was told they were definitely running. I’m sure that was a lie.

I’ll talk a little about my own experiences, since I was always too afraid to say much back then. I wasn’t a big artist, and since HW hadn’t yet formed a discord, I felt like I was the only one having problems with them. I ended up internalizing that it was my fault, that I just sucked.

I was only with Hiveworks for 2-3 years, but I always felt it was inevitable it would reach this point. I left before it got this bad, but it was still Very Bad even back in 2016. I wish all the artists luck and success.

It is really really discouraging rn with all the book bans (especially in TN) but I still have hope that today’s kids will ultimately know better and do better for the world.

It’s just sad that some adults are trying so hard to prevent that.

Book world sucks sometimes (got a homophobic review on my book’s Amazon page recently yay), but then I get emails from kids who say my book helped them and it’s their favorite thing, and I’m reminded that I don’t care about bigoted adults actually 🤷‍♀️

Kay’s Holiday Comms 2025 🎁🎄 Please read everything before applying! I will be choosing a set number of applications, so this form will remain open until November 20th. It is not first come first serve, so please read everythin...

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Holiday commissions are open until the 20th! Check the link below to apply!

Thank you!! 🥹

Drawing of a girl with multicolor hair looking over her shoulder

Doodle from last year

Drawing of characters from Pokémon legends ZA

Drawings of characters from Pokémon legends ZA

Legends ZA fan art

It was a webcomic awhile back I used to make! It’s a graphic novel now

Drawings of Marietta, from the graphic novel Oddity Woods

Drawings of Wyatt + Marietta, from the graphic novel Oddity Woods

oddity woods sketches

Yay!!!!!! 🙌🙌🙌

#DVPit Rules -#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors -Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET -Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project) -Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio. -Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag) -A like from an agent = a query request -A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent -A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions -Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches -Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

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I'll be tabling at CXC this weekend! Never been before, so I'm excited to check it out!

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it even now! ☺️

(I don’t know much about Superman but y’all’s Supermans are so cute always and makes me wanna read it)