About Philip L Moore

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, 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.

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. 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.

It wasn’t 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.

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 during a relationship with Michele Simmonds, that she encouraged him to approach a publishing group to get his first book published!

Philip remains good friends with Lynette and Michele to this day, and enjoys writing about life’s ups and downs. Currently Phil's books available are "Utterly Ridiculous".

All books will be available for sale direct from the author at info@philiplmoore.com

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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 is awful, I am not going to deny this and as much as I have worked hard to improve it, it is still terrible! However I have a good team of proofreaders, editors and publishers who take my work seriously and are able to refine it. When you buy one of my books the end result  is as good as any other authors (So I have been told) due to hard work put in by my team, amazingly they don’t change it very much so what you get to read is still my work and not what others interpret it to be , which is great.

My true colours are revealed when I blog and e-mail, when it’s left to me to self edit, this is one reason you will not find me blogging much with the other authors on my publishers sites, I am simply incapable of doing it without lots of spelling and bad grammar, this tends to upset people and cause problems, and I really don’t want to offend anyone. However this does not mean I don’t want to hear/chat with all of you buying my books, so if you can put up with all my spelling mistakes then please don’t stop chatting to me it’s great to hear from you all.

In layman’s terms I am a kid from the gutter who likes to write and I do to prove to all you with similar experiences out there, (and myself) that 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 was self published and sales have been in the hundreds and now heading towards my second thousand, if people like what they read and you have something to say then SAY IT!