~ About ~
At the ripe old age of 21 and after a push from my long suffering friends ( why send a short text when you can send a long ranty one instead ) I’ve decided to stop talking about it and start writing.
I can’t remember a time when I didn’t love to read. Huddled under the covers with my Barbie torch in one hand and my ears strained for any sounds of my parents approaching I devoured every book I could get my hands on. Growing up and frequently fighting to keep my eyes open over my cereal taught me a bit of sense…but not much! Give me a really great book and sleep becomes irrelevant.
English was always a subject I found easy but it wasn’t until I started studying plays and poets that I fell totally in love with it. Chemistry was the only other subject I would happily put time and energy into and ended up studying that in college. Now I’m halfway through a chemistry degree,writing and reading whenever I can and totally undecided about which direction I will eventually go ( much to my mums despair 
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So here is my blog its is my memoir/diary/rantathon and in general a place for the little voices in my head to take refuge. Thanks for reading
Lilypetal x
Mar 20, 2013 @ 17:28:55
I’m an “old person” Lily. Everyone knows “old people” live in the past and don’t know what they’re talking about anymore, but, anyway, here goes…
1. Career: Do what makes you happy, something you love and something that pleases you. I loved aviation, though I was never a licensed pilot. I had a 30yr career as an air traffic controller and I flew constantly, in anything that had wings and went into the air. It was really difficult for me to leave this when I retired. I still fly every chance I get. It makes my heart and soul fly.
2. Relationships: Again, happy trumps everything. Keep close friends whom you can trust and who make you happy. Love: That’s a constant learning process. It changes every day. The trick is to make sure you’re with the right person. How? The screening process has to be pretty tough and realistic. Sounds terribly unromantic, but it works.
Ok. That’s about all I have to say. I’m just full of advice. Take what you like and trash the rest. Best to you.
Paul
Apr 05, 2013 @ 00:28:30
As one of my beloved followers, I would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude by sharing with you my exciting news of becoming a newly published author! And, of course, I wanted you to be among the very first to get a chance to read the rest of my debut novel, The Legacy of Blood, now available in e-book format.
(No worries if you don’t have a Kindle or other e-reader device, they have free ones to download on your computer. I went on Amazon and downloaded their “Kindle for PC” absolutely free! Love it! Here’s the link if you need it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/pc/download .)
Again, I want to thank you kindly for all the support. And you never know, as some of my followers have told me, you could say you’ve had a big hand in helping make Shelby Westland a household name!
The Legacy of Blood on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Blood-Sanguivore-Saga-ebook/dp/B00C5J7V2E/
Other e-reader retailers to follow soon!
Cheers!
XOXO