F. Scott Service
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America
Genres: Biography, Narrative Nonfiction, Other, Memoir
A former sergeant with the Army National Guard, Scott is a full-time author. His first memoir, Lines in the Sand: An American Soldier’s Personal Journey in Iraq, is a transcription of the handwritten journals he kept during his tour of duty and details not only the turmoil of war, his divorce, but how he became a conscientious objector. His second, Playing Soldier, takes on a broader scope capturing his lifelong journey of unlearning expectation, celebrating individuality, and nourishing self-acceptance once buried by cultural stamps of approval and societal convention. His third, the Book of Jack, boldly explores the intensely personal experience of coming to terms with suicide, the significance of friendship, and the essence of a lifelong connection. 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 Book Excellence Awards for Memoir, the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Best Cover Design and Autobiography/Biography, 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/Military. Having earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional/Technical Communication and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, he has also had experience with editing, journalism, and desktop publishing. He lives in New England and you may connect with him at: www.fscottservice.com
F. Scott Service's books
Genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction, Other
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
On a crisp, spring evening, Dana learned that his best friend shot himself. Connected practically since birth, the shattering pain of his death invoked the deepest of questions. What could have propelled him to commit such an extreme act? How had his friend's suffering escaped him? Who was the man he had known? And why was he alive, but his friend was not? On the road to the memorial, driven to understand and find a semblance of inner peace, he would have to reach into his heart, untangle the past, and face some uncomfortable truths. In this stunning book, charged with heart-stirring honesty, sadness, and hope, F. Scott Service boldly explores the intensely personal experience of coming to terms with death, the significance of friendship, and the essence of a lifelong connection.
Genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Winner of the 2021 IndieReader Discovery Award for Memoir Finalist in the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards for New Nonfiction Finalist in the 2021 Book Excellence Awards for Memoir Finalist in the 2021 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Best Cover Design and Autobiography/Biography Finalist in the 2021 Independent Author Network Book Awards for Autobiography/Biography Finalist in the 2021 N.N. Light Book Awards for Memoir Honorable Mention Award in the 2021 Readers' Favorite Book Awards for Nonfiction/Military As an only child isolated within a troubled family, F. Scott Service found solace in fantasy and imagination, until a fateful day led to the discovery of his father's Korean War field jacket hidden in a closet. What began as innocent emulation and approval, eventually spiraled into the calamitous loss of everything he had built as an adult. Faced with a grievous divorce, post-traumatic stress, homelessness, substance abuse, and the failure of everything he...
Genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Narrative Nonfiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback, Hardback
Age Groups: 18+
Winner in the 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards for Adult Nonfiction Winner of the Pacific Book Review Star for a Memoir of Excellent Merit For F. Scott Service, a five-minute phone call one peaceful morning was all it took. Faced with the terrible dichotomy of his moral opposition to war and an innate sense of duty, little did he realize that when he was called for deployment in Iraq that his would be the journey of a lifetime. A tour of duty destined to change him forever. Witnessing the violence of a country ravaged by chaos and facing the disintegration of his life back home, his sojourn in Iraq forced him to fight a new battle, a battle within himself. What had once been a noble intention became a desperate struggle to salvage what was left of his humanity, an excursion into the darkest recesses of the human mind that...