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F. Scott Service

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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 first memoir, 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.

His second, Playing Soldier: A Chronicle of Spiritual Awakening won the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award for Memoir. It also placed Finalist in the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards for New Nonfiction, t
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Dispatches

Dispatches by Michael Herr
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.”
F. Scott Service

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
Allen Saunders

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