Scott or as his friends call him, Scotty, lives in New England. Having earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional/Technical Communication and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, he has had experience with editing, journalism, desktop publishing, videography, and is an award-winning, full-time author. His books have won Readers' Favorite Five-Star Awards and have been featured in Publishers Weekly magazine, as well as others. Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq won in the 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Adult Nonfiction and was awarded the Pacific Book Review Star for a Memoir of Excellent Merit. Playing Soldier won the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award for Memoir. It also placed Finalist in the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards for New Nonfiction, the 2021 Book Excellence Awards for Memoir, the 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Best Cover Design, the 2021 Independent Author Network Book Awards for Autobiography/Biography, the 2021 N.N. Light Book Awards for Memoir, and won the Honorable Mention Award in the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Nonfiction/Military. He enjoys cooking with an emphasis on Indian, Thai, Russian, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Chinese, Spanish, Middle Eastern (especially Algerian, Iraqi, and Egyptian), Mexican, and Italian. His next venture in culinary delight will be with Caribbean food. Being an avid explorer, he has spent time in all but two states in America and is always on the lookout for someplace new (he just never thought it would be Iraq and Kuwait as his first international travel destinations). On his list of new places are Pitcairn Island, Easter Island, Stonehenge, Leap Castle in Ireland, the Hobbit village in New Zealand, Hunyad Castle in Romania, and the Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula. Other interests include a long-standing fascination with UFO, paranormal, and occult phenomena as well as playing guitar, backpacking, and bike riding. Please feel free to connect with him through his website: www.fscottservice.com.