by Jessica Scott | Jul 13, 2012 | RWA Nationals, Uncategorized
All right folks, just in time for Friday afternoon and any weekend shopping, here’s your makeup survival guide for RWA. There are many things you want to accomplish at RWA but your mascara melting is not one of them. Keep in mind that you want to be able to go...
by Jessica Scott | Jan 21, 2012 | army officers, books, company command, Fort Hood, newbie author, random, RWA Nationals, Uncategorized, writer's ruck sack, Writing
Army Life I reported to my new unit this week. It wasn’t a major move or anything, I just walked upstairs to the new battalion. But it’s interesting because my mental shift hasn’t occurred yet and it really needs to. Us is not my new unit. Them is my old unit, not the...
by Jessica Scott | Dec 1, 2011 | army officers, company command, leadership, publishing, random, RWA Nationals, Uncategorized, Writing
The Army has these things called Army Values. They make up the acronum LDRSHIP and stand for Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity and Personal Courage. In our society, we pay a lot of lip service to these things but at the end of the day,...
by Jessica Scott | Aug 29, 2011 | books, Guest Blogger, publishing, RWA Nationals, Uncategorized, writer's ruck sack, Writing
Today it’s my great pleasure to welcome back a good friend of mine who also happens to be one of my favorite authors. Laura Griffin is back, celebrating the release of her latest suspense novel SNAPPED. Laura’s giving away an autographed copy of SNAPPED...
by Jessica Scott | Jul 13, 2011 | books, publishing, RWA Nationals, Uncategorized, writer's ruck sack, Writing
One of the things that drives my battalion commander nuts about me is that sometimes, not often mind you, but just sometimes, I have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. I know that in the past, when looking at revisions or changes to a story, I’ve...
by Jessica Scott | Jul 9, 2011 | books, deployment, publishing, RWA Nationals, social networking, Uncategorized, women at war, writer's ruck sack, Writing
So I was holding off on blogging any more until after Sherry’s backlist giveaway was complete. So this was the year of Twitter. Everywhere I turned, people were talking to me and the introduction went something like this: “I’m so and so, from twitter.” And yes, names...