Austin event with Caitlin Rozakis

On Monday, June 1st, at 7 pm, Ilona will be joining Caitlin Rozakis at Barnes & Noble Arboretum in Austin to chat shop, ask questions, and help celebrate Caitlin’s new release, STARTUP HELL.

Tickets are free and available at TicketLeap.

Purchasing the book from B&N Arboretum on event day will grant you access to the signing line. If you have any other questions or arrangements you need to make in advance, you can contact the venue at this link. More details about Caitlin’s signing tour dates in both the US and UK can be found on her website.

About STARTUP HELL

STARTUP HELL by Caitlin Rozakis is a contemporary fantasy office comedy about a junior sales witch stuck in (corporate) hell, who has to juggle devilish pacts, her kickass demon-slaying mother, and one inconveniently hot demon, all while trying to hit her quarterly target.

It was released on May 19^th from Titan Books, in ebook, audio and paperback format.

Morgan Blackwater-McKey is a junior salesperson for a tech startup that can’t even decide what its product is. Sure, her mom might be a kickass, world-saving, demon-slaying Shadow Council wizard. But with magic dyslexia and a disinclination to kick ass, Morgan’s life is more about sales leads than case leads.

That is, until her boss summons a demon to try to trade his soul to make his quarterly target. And dies without sending the demon home.

Now Morgan is stuck with an inconveniently attractive junior salesdemon sleeping on her couch. Other than that whole souls thing, turns out the infernal realm is not so different from startup culture. If all corporations are hell and their bosses are ruthless monsters anyway, why not team up?

Morgan just has to stay ahead of her demon-hunting mother, her amoral tech bro CEO, and her growing attraction to a certain demon. And a quarterly target that threatens to damn them both...

Corporate life: somehow barely worse when you add actual demons, amirite?

I have only managed to read the sample so far, because moving house stress and back pain (always lift with your legs, Horde!), but Morgan’s reaction to the classic Faust-style “deal with a summoned demon” situation gave me a chuckle. We stan a woman with boundaries, professional burnout, and absolutely no time for infernal nonsense. Goethe could have saved himself a lot of time with that one.

If that sounds like your kind of chaos, this is your chance to hear Caitlin and Ilona talk all things fantasy, writing, demons, and corporate despair.

Come for the author chat, stay for the infernal office comedy, and bring your best fluffy Horde energy!