Royce Emley: Helium – Where Knowledge Rules

About me - Royce Emley

About me

I was born in Wales GB, in 1941. I grew up after WWII in Lancaster, England, until my family immigrated to Canada in 1952. I was educated in Canada at a London; Ontario art school, H.B.Beal and became an accomplished artist. I started out my creative career in advertising, freelancing art and writing TV commercials, designing signs, billboards and images in the advertising business in Canada.
In 1964 after a trip to Florida I applied to immigrate to the US. Arriving in 1968 I settled in West Palm Beach, Florida where I became an award winning artist and copywriter. I continued in the advertising field. In 1998 at the age of 57 I was suddenly struck down by a virus that attacked my brain. I beat all the odds not only surviving this often-fatal illness, but also had no lasting ill effects. Over the next 2 years I became even more creative and turned into a writer. The company I worked for had been sold and I had no job. I then acted on advice from an old friend and began driving a limo/sedans at PBIA. Between rides to pass the time I would write. This led to writing a column and poetry for family members, other drivers and an intrest in writing simple conversational rhyme. Then one day after a long writing session in rhyme, I was sent to Delta to pick up 3 people. As we started out, the conversation turned into laughter when they claimed I was talking to them in rhyme. All four of us rhymed our conversations all the way to the destination, ending up laughing our heads off at the funny rhyme we created. On my return to the airport, I wondered if there might just be a place where everyone talks in rhyme, it must be a place that got lost in time, and so, The Town Of Rhyme was born. My first childrens book all in rhyme. I also wrote a column called "Pearls From The Back Seat of a Palm Beach Limo", based on the conversations in my limo but that's another story for another book. I now write for a weekly news paper.