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, and videography.

A former sergeant with the Army National Guard, he is now 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 IndieReader Discovery Award for Memoir. It also won Finalist in the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards for New Nonfiction, the Book Excellence Awards for Memoir, the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Best Cover Design, the Independent Author Network Book Awards for Autobiography/Biography, the N.N. Light Book Awards for Memoir, and the Honorable Mention Award in the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Nonfiction/Memoir.

His other interests include cooking, playing guitar, backpacking, mountain biking, and of course, reading.