Scott C. Wyatt

This website its not set up like a blog. You can find quite a bit of free reading here if you take some time to click around. The links to the right are MY links, not advertisements. Help yourself to a visit!

This is the central hub for Scott C Wyatt. I am the author of several works of fiction.

Since I am a real person (actually kind of likeable… well, my mother loves me – occasionally my wife – children – less occasionally…), and not a corporation, this website will lack that “glossy”, “corporate” feel. I could do that, but what fun is that? We have plenty of those already.

I’m actually a pretty friendly guy. I’ve accepted the probability that my novel won’t sell ten million copies. As a result, I choose not to pepper twitter and Goodreads and facebook with requests that you “check me out” every sixteen minutes. For now, I’m really mostly interested in – first of all – continuing to write (I love it, and my mother thinks I was made for it) – and second – connecting with Indie writers and all readers. Honestly, I’m having a blast. You guys are a lot of fun.

Still, I have to make a plug (and I do it from time to time… It is, after all, necessary).

I am most proud of my novel Wax Dragon. This novel comes across like a typical Post-Apocalyptic novel with a disturbing lack of Zombies. It’s more than that. I like to think that it makes a case for women’s issues by painting what’s at stake with a misogynists’ paintbrush. My protagonist is strong, stubborn, and treats women poorly, but he’s lovable anyway. He’s an a**hole, some days I am.

I never bought the premise that Ulysses could spend twenty years sleeping his way across the Mediterranean while his wife Penelope stayed faithful at home. My own experience has been very different than that, and I doubt it’s changed all that much. I also didn’t buy Joyce’s premise that Penelope would turn him into a cuckold. More that she would show him the door, after exhausting herself trying to make him function properly, or at least according to the rules.

I think we are simply complicated (paradox intended).

As a result, I set out to write a “smart” novel.

It wasn’t entirely all THAT smart. After spending hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars I published it – foregoing paid copyediting. I have since fixed that, and have published a second edition.

If you are an aspiring Indie writer. I would tell you: “Yes, I get you. but pay to have it edited anyway.”

I’m just saying.

I’ve been getting some good reviews. You can see them on Goodreads, and also on Amazon. There’s a big picture here… a billboard… but there’s more communicating beyond…

This book is available as a Kindle through Amazon, or as an ebook at:

http://www.outskirtspress.com/waxdragon/

And then there’s my precocious teenage girl, Emily. She appears in a short work that you can find on Amazon for 99c.

It’s pretty experimental in method. I don’t want to write in predictable ways.

This is a short story that started out to be an examination on space travel, and instead became a clever story about abandonment: By wayward fathers, and by God.

I have the following review to highlight it:

“If you like your Sci-Fi with a good helping of humor, a side of allegory, and a dash of philosophy, then this is the story for you! Scott Wyatt manages to tackle complicated themes with a light hand and a clever twist. Once you get used to the unusual format, you will be delighted with Emily’s voice and her biting commentary. Wyatt does with this story what all good sci-fi can do: he makes you think. Short but fascinating, you won’t regret picking up this little gem.”

Which can be found on Goodreads.

Trailer:

Emily Landers is a senior in high school. As an assignment, Emily must develop a semester long writing project with the help of her teacher and writing mentor Mr. Baublitz. Standing at the crossroads of the most profound episode in human history, the discovery of intelligent life outside our solar system, Emily sets out to document this monumental event as it unfolds. The results are erratic, swaying between the points of disinterested book report; inspiring creativity; satire, and touching self reflection; Emily confronts herself, her role in her absent father’s life, the role of God in the universe, and her place in the world in devastating intimacy. But in the face of life on other planets, the only thing she learns about is how much she will need to depend on herself.

Also, you can look for me on Goodreads.com. Feel free to find me there. I’m friendly.

As for who I am, you can find several biographies of me, one on Amazon, and the other on Goodreads. Those are the liner notes versions.

Who I really am is much more complicated, but isn’t that always the way?

If you want to contact me directly, you can try this thing (below) I’m not sure yet exactly what will happen, but, hey…

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