About Philip L Moore

In October 2009 Philip decided to move back to Wellington in Somerset, having lived there before many years ago, Philip has friends and family living in the Wellington Taunton area so felt it was like coming home. Philips eldest son Lee who was in a terrible car crash in 2008 was born in Taunton hospital, the fact that the Air Ambulance office which saved Lees life is based in Wellington means Philip has very strong ties to the area.  

Philip L Moore was born in 1961, the youngest son of four children, to Stanley and Mavis Maw. Philip was only 7 years old when his mother died at Littlehampton West Sussex, so Philip grew up close to his next sister, Sharon, coping with whatever life threw at them. Philip’s father was a chain-smoking alcoholic, unable to hold down any job and often in and out of prison. As a result Philip ended up changing schools about 25 times resulting in a poor education. Philip clearly remembers two sides of one certain road, Ford airfield one side, Ford prison the other, both of which Philip visited reguarly as a child.

Often in and out of trouble as a teenager, Philip learnt how to survive as he was growing up. He finally left school in 1977 (finishing at Bampton Secondary School in Devon) with very few qualifications. His reading and writing skills suffered greatly as a result of his speckled education, however despite this, it never hampered his outlook on life, he remained and remains very positive, always believing his glass is half full.

At the age of 18, Philip decided to change the spelling of his surname from MAW to MOORE, which he has kept ever since. He soon headed back towards the West Sussex area, settling once again in Littlehampton. This was a new beginning for him.

After taking a few jobs in agriculture, milking cows and farming the land, he knew he could do better and was looking for a more demanding role. In the meantime, he met up with Lynette Marshall at the age of 22, started to settle down. They had two sons, Lee and Karn.

He started off running a mobile car cleaning business in Littlehampton called Mobile Car Wash Company, and it was not long after this that Philip went on to set up one of the UK’s leading aircraft cleaning companies, AirDefence Aviation, gaining a huge amount of material for his first book.

Philip likes to write about the places he knows and loves, Taunton/Wellington in Somerset are often mentioned as are Shaftesbury in Dorset, and Littlehampton in West Sussex. Being in aviation for many years means Places like Dunkeswell, Shoreham, Goodwood, Northweald, Compton Abbas, and Hestridge often creep into his story lines.

Throughout his life Philip was always writing, making notes and writing poetry and small stories with his wicked humour. As time went on, and with the help of technology in the form of “spell check” on his computer, he was able to start writing more seriously. Writing then became his favourite hobby, and it was only towards the end of 2005 when Philip met Michele Simmonds-and daughter Kerri Compton, that she encouraged him to approach a publishing group to get his first book published!

 Currently Phil's books available are "Utterly Ridiculous", Therapy, Eternal Wish, and Kez.

All books will be available for sale direct from the author at

www.myspace.com/philiplmoore

For people wanting to know more about me and my writing, I feel I may need to explain my books and my style a little, now I have publishers I have to answer to. I am just a down to earth common guy with very little formal education.

I am a story teller, and I have a lot of “experience of life” that I use in my books, but what my writing is really about is fighting to prove to myself that I am better than those who bullied and dominated me as a child and in my teens.

My spelling and grammar has got better over the years, but every so often I do make the odd mistake , luckily my proof readers and editors find these and correct them.  

I am trying to Blog on here more often, so please feel free to leave me a message or e-mail me. Please don't stop chatting to me, it’s great to hear from all of my fans.

To those who want to start writing: you can do it. Stuff what everyone says, critiques are plentiful and people will always try to put you down. Do it for you.

Don’t be scared to self publish UTTERLY RIDICULOUS, and KEZ are self published and sales have been in the hundreds and now heading towards the thousands, if people like what they read and you have something to say then SAY IT!

So, fight your demons and do what you want to do, and thank you for taking the time to read my books,

I am just a story teller with stories to tell!