Steve Emmett is a British author, born in Harrogate - that genteel Yorkshire spa town where Agatha Christie hid away from the world thirty-two years earlier. He studied at the prestigious Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and built a few houses before going off the rails. He spent a little time in New York, where he almost settled, before returning to Yorkshire where, amongst other things, he served as an elected councillor and deputy mayor.
As a student of architecture he had fallen in love with Italy, so when he had the chance to get involved with the selling of country properties and eerie ruins there he didn't need to think twice. It was something he did for almost twenty-five years, in which time he owned and ran the agency in both London and Italy. He lived in Umbria for many years, on the shore of Lake Trasimeno where he set his debut novel Diavolino.
Born at the end of the 1950s, Steve grew up on Dennis Wheatley novels and Hammer Horror films, and on many occasions started to put pen to paper. Completely dissatisfied and unfulfilled with his career, Steve decided in 2009 that he wanted to write and began Diavolino while ridding himself of the business and returning to the UK.
Steve knows Italy and its people extremely well; he has travelled hundreds of thousands of kilometres around the mainland and islands, met hundreds of interesting - sometimes crazy - people, and visited fabulous castles, palaces, chapels, convents, ruins and so on. He has also travelled widely and knows most of mainland Europe better than he does Britain. It is on this experience that he draws for his writing.
At the moment he is working on a number of horror projects. He is a reviewer for the New York Journal of Books, a proud member of the Society of Authors and of the British Humanist Association. He currently lives with his partner and some rather large spiders in the Yorkshire Wolds, close to the ancient City of York.
