USA Today bestselling author
Jessica Scott is here
today to chat with us
about her
Coming Home military romance series, in celebration of
BACK
TO YOU's paperback release. Welcome, Jessica!
Your Coming Home books feature military members who struggle to
balance romance, family, and duty. What is unique about the love stories of
soldiers?
I think soldiers go through things β even when weβre not at war β that are just
different than most other groups. Even before the war, soldiers were asked to
spend a year or more at a time away from their families. There are pressures on
military families that many other families simply wonβt ever experience and I
find those stories compelling.
How did your experience as an Army second lieutenant influence your
fiction writing?
I think it allows me to pull from my daily life. I get to mine an incredibly
rich field for story tidbits and ideas and emotions that I donβt get otherwise.
In your non-fiction works, you write about the difficulty of balancing
life as a mother and your history as a soldier. What prompted you to share your
personal story in addition to your fictional works?
I think itβs important that other women know about stories like mine. Weβve come
to believe this myth that the other womanβs life is perfect, that itβs only mine
so to speak thatβs going to hell. No one prepared me for how difficult it would
be to deploy and no one certainly gave me any idea that coming home was going to
be so doggone tough. So I shared my stories because I wanted other women to know
that hey, itβs going to be okay. You are not alone.
The third book in the Coming Home series, BACK TO YOU
(initially released in e-format in January), was just recently released in
print. How does it feel to be in print for the first time?
Terrifying, exhilarating, you name it. I get ridiculously excited when I see it
in the wild. Itβs so doggone cool!
When you arenβt writing, what do you like to read?
I love Nalini Singh and Shawntelle Madisonβs urban fantasy series. Theyβre both
simply fantastic. Otherwise, I read a lot of non-fiction about cognition and the
mind. Iβm kind of a nerd like that.
Thanks, Jessica, for chatting with us today! Readers, find out more about
Jessica and her books on her website and check out all the books in the Coming
Home series here.
About Jessica
USA Today bestselling author
Jessica Scott is a career
army officer,
mother of two daughters, three cats and three dogs, wife to a career NCO and
wrangler of all things stuffed and fluffy. She is a terrible cook and even worse
housekeeper, but she's a pretty good shot with her assigned weapon and someone
liked some of the stuff she wrote. Somehow, her children are pretty well
adjusted and her husband still loves her, despite burned water and a messy house.
She's also written for the
New York Times At War Blog, PBS Point of View
Regarding War, and IAVA. She deployed to Iraq in 2009 as part of OIF/New Dawn
and has had the honor of serving as a company commander at Fort Hood, Texas twice.
She's pursuing a graduate degree in Sociology in her spare time and most
recently, she's been featured as one of
Esquire Magazine's Americans of
the Year for 2012.
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