About Element of Risk
Let me tell you about me, the author.
I was born in 1952 in Carlisle Cumbria, England. I initially trained to be a hairdresser and had my own business by the time I was 18 years old. I did love hairdressing but I loved writing more. I moved away from Carlisle when I was 19 and met my husband a few years later. We married in 1978 and had our first son in December 1978. I settled down to domesticity and had our second son Daniel in 1981. My husband was a Potash miner. Daniel was born with a harelip and cleft palette and he needed a lot of care and attention. Move forward 21 years. Mike, my husband leave the mine and we take on a local pub. Suddenly life is twice as busy as before. For our anniversary, in February 2000 we took our selves off to Cyprus for a holiday and fell in love with the island. I wanted to live and write in Cyprus and in 2003 we did just that. I had started to write Element of Risk in 1994 but only wrote about 3 chapters and put it away. I resurrected the manuscript and finished the book in 3 months. It has been a long and tortuous road to publication and I have had to go to America to finally get published. My second book,
All That Remains is looking for a book deal in New York as we speak. Element of Risk is only available at present in hard back but in a couple of months it will be on the shelves in paper back. Keep and eye out for it!
Element of Risk - Author - Christine Stokoe
