Phillip Nelson was born and raised in the Snowy Mountains on the east coast of Australia. At 16, with just his Kawasaki Z-900 he left home for the final time with a head full of bad ideas and an at...view morePhillip Nelson was born and raised in the Snowy Mountains on the east coast of Australia. At 16, with just his Kawasaki Z-900 he left home for the final time with a head full of bad ideas and an attitude to match. The harsh realities of gang life living on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne was a steep learning curve that ended the day some crazed bikie poked a shotgun under his chin and pulled the trigger. Saved by a dud cartridge, he needed a Plan B.
He spent time working in the hospitality industry, then as a part-time deckhand on a rock lobster boat before becoming a backup drummer in a band until he settled into delivering on-site Workplace Assessment and Training courses throughout Western Australia.
People who live in the Land Down Under are great travellers through necessity, and after continually tweaking with a 15-year-old idea for his first novel; Phillip Nelson jumped on a plane and headed to Europe. He now lives in a small, culturally diverse Thailand village with two very spoilt Soi dogs and a pond full of disappearing walking fish. If he hasn’t got a rod in his hand, then he is normally writing, and with three books completed in ‘The Man Called Kelly Series,’ The School of Hard Knocks was his debut novel released in 2019.view less