THE LUCK OF THE DEVIL has a special place in my heart. It's almost autobiographical: the main character Susan is also a heavy-metal-loving civil servant who happens to be transgender; and at the time of writing I too was living in South London, nursing fading dreams of playing bass in a rock 'n' roll band. The novel is a contemporary thriller of both comedy and tragedy, set in a world of superstition, psychiatry and the metaphysical. Here's the obligatory blurb: "Susan Jones, a transgender woman struggling to get by in the economic woes of 1990s Britain, is under the care of psychiatrist Doctor Mordussen. He in turn is obsessed by her disturbing nightmares. But are her demons real? An unexpected road trip to Ireland awakens traumas of the past. A seventeenth-century sorcerer, evil nurses, a castle reborn from the ashes and a bloodthirsty sheep do not making getting to the bottom of the mystery any easier. The old wise woman of the village knows more than she's telling. Susan must confront her demons in more ways than one. Can her love of heavy metal, her battered Volkswagen camper van and two best friends save the day?" Paperbacks are out now and available to purchase from Amazon, price GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 (print-on-demand pricing can't compete with mass-market paperbacks, but they are higher-quality). I also hope to have a copy or two with me on the merch table at Ditch the Demon gigs. The ebook has been reissued with the revised text and is available from all the usual stockists with a recommended retail price of GBP 4.00 / USD 5.00. Happy reading! Steph.