Monday, May 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **The devil has come to town. And he wants a library card. Star author Olivie Blake and artist Little Chmura kick off a deliciously dark graphic novel romance series with _Clara & the Devil, Volume 1_.** Clara has the rest of her life figured out. She’ll graduate college with the support of her best friend, Jonah; marry her adoring boyfriend; take a full-time job at her local library; and settle down in her small seaside hometown. But when an unusual tourist—tall, dark, and infernal—comes to town, Clara’s careful plans quickly start to unravel. And even while the stranger, who openly calls himself the devil, strikes up a situationship with Jonah, he continues to tempt Clara with reckless talk of power, ambition, and lust. Over the course of one sultry summer, tensions between Clara, Jonah, and the devil mount to an intolerable degree, and Clara is forced to confront the desires she’s kept secret her whole life, even from herself. This deliciously dark tale of Faustian bargains and seduction from _New York Times_–bestselling author Olivie Blake and fan-favorite artist Little Chmura kicks off a series that explores artistry and power through the temptation of the seven deadly sins. **Olivie Blake** is the _New York Times_ bestselling author of speculative fiction for adults, including The Atlas Six trilogy, _Alone with You in the Ether_, _Masters of Death_, the short story collection _Januaries_, and her novel, _Girl Dinner_. With Little Chmura, she is the co-creator of the graphic series _Clara and the Devil_. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult novels _My Mechanical Romance_ and _Twelfth Knight_. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. **Little Chmura** is an artist whose illustration practice is focused on portraits, with a special interest in intense, dramatic looks. _Clara & the Devil_ is a graphic novel she co-creates with _New York Times_– and _Sunday Times_–bestselling author Olivie Blake. She co-created _Ropuka's Idle Island_ with game developer Moczan. Though Chmura uses “little” in her pseudonym, she is actually a full-scale human. She lives in Lower Silesia with her husband and one-eyed cat, Piratka. **Tina Horn** is the writer/creator of the sci-fi comic book series Safe Sex (SfSx), the cult detective thriller Deprog, and Why Are People Into That?: A Cultural Investigation of Kink (a book based on her long-running indie podcast of the same name.) Tina development edits and consults on creative projects, with an expertise in the paraliterary from horror to porno; she also teaches graphic novel writing craft at the California College of the Art and conceptual sex ed at the School for Poetic Computation, among other places. Her journalism on sexual subcultures has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, the Wondery podcast Operator, and in book anthologies such as We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she coedited. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence in Creative Nonfiction Writing, and is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, an AVN nominee, and the recipient of two Feminist Porn Awards.