Hey all. So, this has been FAR overdue and I totally forgot I hadn’t told any of you what happened. So, let me try to tackle this one by one…
In late May of 2025, I was told I had until December to move out. Luckily, my bf’s family was okay with taking me in. So, now I spent most of the months just trying to pack and get in touch with my father (who is in Brazil) to discuss what to do with his things. PACKING WAS DELAYED SO MANY TIMES, because my father wanted to come back to the US and pack his own things up, he never showed up, and it was finally late November and I had two weeks. I packed everything I could and had to get a storage unit. Basically… I was super stressed, wanted to cry, and I had to leave so much behind because I had no time and no space.
ALSO, in June of 2025, I actually started to work on a book that was based on a D&D solo game I had with myself in 2024 while I recovered from surgery. So, me, myself, and playing make-believe. I finished writing the first draft in August, then went through a month or 2 of working on drafts 2-4, and 4th draft I sent to beta readers in November, in December I moved and managed to flesh out the 5th draft, and now it’s going through one last beta-read pass, then January 20th I will either work on draft 6 OR this will be deemed good enough where I will go through printing with draft 5.
AND, I made the decision, that at the age of 28 (now 29) — I needed to, SERIOUSLY, get my life together, and I applied to college in August of 2025, and guess what? In October I got told that I got ACCEPTED. WHOOP WHOOP!
Now, December 2025 going into January of 2026, on the eve of New Years, I was sent a very particular piece of mail… Basically, a summons for a debt, because… guess what? I am being sued by the culinary school I went to for missing payments, and they’re trying to take $19K from me. OBVIOUSLY, I do not have this money, and I don’t agree with this at all, so, I selected General Denial, because I refuse to be bullied into paying $19K for a godawful school that couldn’t even be bothered with treating its own students with decent respect and made false promises. So, that’s a thing. My court date is in a week. 🙂 can’t wait for this.
And then of course, January 26th, my schooling starts because I’m joining for the Spring Term. So, I have to work, I also have to go to school, I have a book I am working on. A lot is going on.
What does this all mean? SCORNED is no longer going to be a webcomic, a graphic novel, or even a comic. I’m VERY sad to say this, BUT, I just don’t have the time for drawing, writing, school, work, legal issues, while still trying to breathe and not wanting to cry in a corner. I have HORRIBLE time management and that’s on me, but along with that: I have money that I owe, I have to get my life together, and I have to be realistic. At this rate? I will never be able to tell SCORNED’s story if I decide it MUST stay as a comic… So, I made the decision I will turn it into a dark fantasy novel instead. I also made the decision to completely PAUSE my Patreon billing because until I get my things together, I don’t think my patrons should be charged. However, I will be posting first drafts of SCORNED as a written novel for my patrons as I go along, free of charge.
Extra bits of information: my pen name has changed, from Alice Beth Goth to Alisbeth Vale. The book I am working on is Ambrosja’s Thorns, a high fantasy series with gritty politics and romance that hurts.
In case you want to see more details of my book:
it will also have interludes in between chapters to help with world building without info dumping, but also to help people feel immersed in the story. I would post some of the pictures here, but the post is already getting so long.
If you want to learn more, follow me on TikTok: Alisbeth Vale. I have a lot of videos about my book, showcasing the art, some writing, and the characters. My plan launch date is April 30th of 2026.
Anyway, thank you, all of you, for your supporting towards SCORNED. I hope if you’ve enjoyed my storytelling, then you’ll continue to support me. I am going to keep this site up for another month, then I think I will be shutting it down, because I can’t really afford to keep this site up indefinitely with no updates. Anyway, thank you all, seriously. <3
If you want to just stay in contact, follow my TikTok or join the discord, though I am not very active on DISCORD right now. OR, join the Patreon. You might get charged for $2 at first, but it will be free for the coming months, for sure. Anyway. I hope I see you all some time soon, in some sort of way. Thank you. 🙂