These are some of the publications that have paid Phil Philcox for his articles:
Lens; Driver; Rider; Travel; Playboy; Variety; Downbeat; Motorhome; The Woman; Cat Magazine; Skin Diver; Videomaker; Bassmaster; Touristik Aktueil (Germany); Discover North America; Motorcycle Tour and Travel; Mondo Sommero (Italy); Motorcyclist; Computer Journal; Touring Bike; The Miami Herald; Popular Photography; World Travel; The Tampa Tribune; Family Handyman; Dynamic Years; Retirement Living; Trailer Life; Trailblazer; Writer's Digest; Writer's Yearbook; Senior Highlights; L'Aventure Sous Marine (France); Overseas Weekly (Germany); The Family; Off-Duty (Hong Kong); You and Europe; Innkeeper World; Adirondack Life; Vacation Trends; Consumers Digest; The Handyman; Popular Science; Popular Mechanics; Science and Mechanics; Lawyer's Weekly; Home Toys; The Corporate Logo; Computer Monthly; Desktop Computing; PC Magazine; Executive Travel; American Printers; Neptune (Germany); Vacance (France); Keyboard; Plongee (France); Homeowner's How-To; Publications Image; Freelance Writer; Travel Writer's Newsletter; Cats and Kittens; Woodall's Travel; Sub Aqua (France); Business Computing; Mottorad (Germany); Creative Computing; Family Houseboating; Motorcycle (England); 1001 Decorator Ideas; Family Motor Coaching; Mechanix Illustrated; Modern Tourism (Japan); Travel Week (England); Time-Life Publications; San Francisco Chronical; Atlanta Journal; London Times; Senior Times; Double55; New York Times; Meeting and Convention Magazine; the Army, Navy and Air Force Times; Time-Life Publications; Popular Mechanics; RV Times; Family Magazine; Weekender; Western and Eastern Treasure; Gold and Treasure; Resort and Hotel Management; Modern Drummer; Keyboard; Touristik Aktueil (Germany); Discover North America; Woman's Weekly; Sunset; Florida Lifestyle; Popular Crosswords; Dell Crosswords; and more.
The Florida Meeting Planner's Guide - How To Schedule A Trouble-Free Event
In The Sunshine State- city by city listings of facilities, contacts, venues, statistics,
accommodations, hundreds of sources of services, etc.
I Saw It First...A Back-Seat Survival Guide For Parents Traveling With Kids- page after page of images children look
for while traveling. The one to see it first gets points and the person with the most points at the end of the game wins.
The Live-In Florida Book - A Relocation Guide For Job Hunters, New Lifestyle Seekers and
Retirees - time to relocate because of the economy? this guide covers all of the areas in Florida
for anyone considering moving to one of the fastest growing area of the country: information on
housing, jobs, salaries, education, healthcare, activities, etc. Part Two is Information Sources
Including over 500 employers by category with addresses. phone, fax, etc.
The Logo Design Book - How To Earn $50 To $500 Each Designing Simple Logos With Your Computer: how to earn money designing logos for local businesses. includes step-by-step instructions, the software to use. Part Two is our collection of hundreds of logos to stimulate the reader's logo designing imagination.
I Should Have Been...a book of unique tests anyone can take to see if they qualify to be a gourmet chef, a Miss America contestant, a witch, a bomb disposal expert, a psychiatric nurse, a prison guard, a nutritionist, a professional ballet dancer, a London taxi driver, , etc.
The Wedding Where-To-Book - 101 Interesting and Exotic Places Around The World To Tie The Knot
information on unique places to go to get married, legal requirements in different states and countries,
contact sources for services, making arrangements, where to stay, etc.
The Potato Cookbook...How People Around The World Cook America's favorite vegetable - over 100 recipes from South America, Japan, Europe, Australia, China, Mexico and other locations around the world, potato facts, etc.
A Parent's Guide To Kid's Resorts - U.S. and Canada Edition: Special Vacationing Areas and Resorts, programs for kids only (resorts that have kids programs that wll educate and entertain and keep them occupied while the parents enjoy themselves.
The Florida Where-To-Stay Book - Thousands of Places To Bed Down In The Sunshine
State- an accommodations guide covering all of Florida with information on each city
and what they offer in the way of hotels, motels, resorts, bed and breakfasts, country inns,
townhouse, condo and private home rentals, thousands of listings with description of facilities. An update of our 195 book.
Easy Living - this is a guide for people who have to deal with the problems of everyday life and that's everybody. It provides them with information on their health, their finances, their options, their family, and more. Every day we face decisions and we all need information. This guide provides that information!
The Off-Season Travel Guide - How To Save 25% to %50 By Vacationing Off-Season - a state-by-state guide to vacationing where the bargains are during the off-season (ski resorts, beaches, cities, etc.) to save money
How To Tour Europe By Motorcycle - An Adventurer's Guide- how to participate in one of the most
exciting motoring vacations available anywhere - riding the streets of Paris, Rome and Vienna and
over the Alps in Italy and Switzerland. Do it like we did (ride, eat in restaurants, sleep in hotels)
or rough it (cooking over a campfire, camping, etc. ) Covers how to plan the trip, when to go, where to
get motorcycles, what to take, where to go, costs, solutions, contacts. We've written two books on this
subject. This is a 25 year update.
The Internet Shopping and Unique Gift Guide- find unique, rare, oddball gifts and save 20%-50% by
shopping over the Internet, lists over 300 sources of stuff, classified by category (clothing,
furniture, jewelry, etc.) anyone can contact for best buys and hard-to-find and unique items.
101 Amazing Things To Do On The Internet(50 pages paperback)
The Computer Owner's Survival Guide - everyone with a computer occasionally has a problem. This guide lists thousands of software and hardware manufacturers and distributors with name, address, toll-free number, e-mail address, web site, bulletin board location, tech support numbers, etc. Shows how to get in touch under all conditions. If you got a question, we'll show you unknown places to go to get an answer.
Sand Castles - How To Build Neat Things From Sand On The Beach- A How-To Guide (40 pages, illustrations)
The How-To Book - How To Join The French Foreign Legion, Adopt A Baby, Be Your Own Lawyer, Get A Job Overseas, Cook A Turkey, Disguise Your Voice, Sail Across The Atlantic Ocean, Dive For Seashells, Find A Loved One on the Internet, How To Earn A Living As A Street Musician, Get A Great Job In The Army, Dye Your Own Hair, Hitchhike Around Europe, Avoid a Shark Attack and more! Crazy and interesting stuff. 60 pages.
Numbers...The Astrological Guide to Winning the Numbers Games
The Medical Survival Guide - How To Get Free and Low Cost Medicine and Medical Care
Military Explosives, Weapons and Bomb Disposal Techniques - a guide to military weapons,
ordnance, explosives and bomb disposal techniques by a 20-year military veteran. Includes terrorist and the Alq-aeda Handbook in English
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Dedicated to Beverly Boe-Philcox, my beloved wife and companion of 35 years, passed away in June 2008. 1979 & 2007 photos.
An accomplished cartoonist and illustrator, Phil has illustrated many of his articles and books
Non-Writing-Related Stuff: During Phil's writing career (1956 to present), he managed to spend 20+ years in the Air Force (1949-1969) as a bomb disposal (EOD) expert in Europe and the U.S. Many of his experiences and knowledge of explosives and bomb disposal techniques are explained in a book he's been trying to sell to publishers for ten years. No luck. Probably too classified, but click on the explosive book proposal below with the gold star. During his three year tour with the 7410the EOD Squadron in Nancy, France, he and his team rendered safe or destroyed over (by actual count) 465 pieces of explosive ordnance; ranging from Franco-Prussian, WWl and WWll hand grenades and land mines to 500kg (over 1,000 pounds) German aerial bombs buried ten feet in the ground and still filled with high explosive.He spent four years (1959-1963) as an instructor in bomb disposal techniques and explosives at the only bomb disposal school in the U.S. at the Naval Propellant Plant in Indian Head, Maryland. Phil has been a certified PADI scuba diver since 1977 and has explored the waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic and Pacific (Hawaii, Guam and Japan), the Adriatic (Yugoslavia) the Mediterranean (France, Spain) and North Sea (England).
Publishers: Contact The Press Association if you have a non-fiction book idea you want written or have a book you want updated. Sometimes previous writers have no interest in updating their book or have passed away. Why let a good book idea go to waste? Send us the information and we'll send you some of our ideas and a proposal. Email Phil at philphilcox@knology.net and please include your name and phone number.
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The Great Castle Hotels of Europe - our 25 year update.
We're dying to write this book and can leave for Europe tomorrow...well, almost!
Publishers: Here are some book proposals. Click on the green square for an in-depth presentation. We can get started on any of these immediately upon signing of a contract.
Welcome Publishers - Check out the 26 in-depth non-fiction book proposals at the green blocks
halfway down this page. We're ready to start anytime!
The Military Career Guide - the advantages of joining the military, how to get the best jobs, the best assignments, retirement benefits, covers all service. Interested? Give me a call and let me explain my retire-at-37 story and 40 years of amazing benefits and $$$$$$.
The House Husbands' Survival Guide - 2011 - the perfect gift for the soon-to-be wed guy, the sloppy bachelor or someone who discovers their wife is going to take on a job or two to make ends meet. How-to information on everything from doing laundry to changing diapers to cooking dinner to cleaning a toilet and other household chores from a guy's standpoint. 2,230,000 marriages next year!
The Off-Season Travel Guide - How to save 30%-50% on your next vacation.
The Where-To-Stay Book Series - accommodation guides to every corner of the United States...a really big project.
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The Florida Dining-Out Guide - where the locals go to chow down.
How To Earn A Living (well, almost) With Your Home Computer - 150+ projects you can do locally.
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Phil Philcox is a 77-year old journalist, the former Director/Editor-in-Chief of The Press Association in New York and a magazine, newspaper, and book writer with publishing credits around the world. He's been a writer for over fifty years and traveled extensively for publishers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, England and Europe. He's authored and co-authored 40+ non-fiction books with his wife Beverly Boe-Philcox, published by Prentice-Hall, Harper and Row, Chilton, Motorbooks International, Kensington, Renaissance/St. Martins, Pilot, Pharos, Carol, and others. His articles have appeared in Family Circle, Consumer's Digest (22 times!), Time-Life Publications, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Playboy, Popular Computing, Travel Holiday, Dell Crosswords, the London
Times, and others.
An accomplished pianist, Phil formed his own groups and played clubs
around the country, The Three Sounds, a jazz trio he led in Europe,
received a writeup in Downbeat Magazine in 1965 (remember he's
77 years old this year). His CD, Easy Listening - Phil Philcox and
Friends was released in 2006. Phil's music, video and musical product
machines, etc.) CD reviews and profiles/articles have appeared in
JazzLine (Egland), Downbeat, French Guitar, Fuzz (Sweden) Swing
Journal (Japan), Variety, Keyboard, Guitar Player, Modern Drummer
and other publications.
All told, he's sold over 1600 magazine and newspapers articles and books on everything for legal affairs to bookkeeping to shopping to
medication to travel in Europe and the U.S. Many of the books are listed on amazon.com under Phil Philcox (click on blue dot for amazon link). Included are (among other things) the best-selling Executive's Business information Sourcebook,The Great CastleHotels of Europe (Volumes I and II), the Sunshine Almanac and the 12-volume series of Where-To-Stay Books.
After a few years of freelancing as a not-to-successful freelancer, Phil founded The Press Association. Purpose? "I felt
it would be easier to sell my writing through a prestige organization like The Press Association then as a young, not too experienced, boring freelancer - one man ((me) one office (my house). Hey! it worked for me and opened up a lot of publisher doors!" He continued
as the Director/Editor-in-Chief for over twenty-eight years, building a network of writers around the world. The Association recently celebrated it's 53rd anniversary. It now operaties out of London representing writers and photographers from different countries who market their material through fellow members in other countries. Phil is a member of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers,Federation of American Scientists, the former European Travel Editor of the Overseas News Media in New York, European and
East Coast Editor of Touring Bike Magazine, International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association and former European Correspondent for Skin Diver Magazine.
