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F. Scott Service

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Born

The United States

Website

http://www.fscottservice.com

Genre

Memoir, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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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 th 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. ...more

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Normally speaking, I hear about books from a variety of sources. And it's mostly informal. Sometimes, it's from a friend, that standard dinner table suggestion over a glass of wine or what not that is usually along the lines of, “Oh, you should check that book out. I really liked it.” Other times, it's from a review I happen to randomly come across, or a newspaper's snappy one-liner, tight and Read more of this blog post »

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“I am a new universe beginning to expand.”
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“Our very lives are a sum of moments.”
― Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

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“The gift of life. Why do we complain so much when, we've been given so much?”
― Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

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“Our very lives are a sum of moments.”
― Scott Service, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier's Personal Journey in Iraq

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“I am a new universe beginning to expand.”
― F. Scott Service

tags: self-awareness

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“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adulthood, success, value

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“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”
― Bob Marley

tags: inspirational-life

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe