Scott Turick

Scott Turick lives in Florida with his wife and their dog. Their wonderful children don’t live too far away, which makes him and his wife very happy.

Scott’s love of science fiction was etched into his DNA at a young age and started with the Apollo missions. The idea of flying into space fueled his own flights of fancy. Watching the skies and imagining life elsewhere in the universe became a habit. The works of Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert, among many, many other sci-fi authors, have been lifelong inspirations.

Scott was born in New York City but doesn’t remember much about living there, since he was forcibly taken to Long Island when he was just a few months old. He lived in Port Jefferson Station until he was ten, when he was again moved without his consent, this time to Florida.

He grew up in Miami. Most of the important things in his life happened there, so much good came out of the relocation. He fell in love there and married there. His children were born there, making them the rarest of breeds: Florida Natives.

Scott is a career journalist who has won awards for his writing and newspaper page design.

He worked at The Miami Herald while studying at Miami-Dade Community College and Florida International University. He covered high school sporting events at The Herald and was part of a group of budding sports reporters affectionately(?) known as “henchmen.” Perhaps that is why, when Scott dreams about being in a fantasy story, his weapon of choice always seems to be a battle axe.

Scott also worked at smaller publications in the Miami area before moving to Louisiana to work as a newspaper editor in the lovely small town of New Iberia. Following five years in Cajun Country, Scott and his family returned to Florida, settling in the Daytona Beach area.

Scott loves being with his family, but also likes to read and has been known to accidentally swat tennis balls over the fence at the public courts. He was a baseball player in his youth and is a baseball fan always. Time at the beach, either walking or going in the water to old-man bodysurf, is also high on the list of things he enjoys.

He is working on completing an alternate-history novel and is writing more short stories.