Tina Peterson Scott

Biography

Tina and her husband have seven children and a growing number of grandchildren. Other than large family get-togethers involving lots of food and fun, she enjoys writing, watercolor painting, long walks, ice cream, and traveling to Europe—especially to her father’s ancestral home of Denmark.
After her youngest child started school, so did Tina. Graduating from Chandler Gilbert Community College with highest honors, Tina realized that dreams turn into goals and aspirations when we work hard and don’t give up.
Life is an Adventure, and Tina enjoys reading complex stories where adventure is one of the elements. She enjoys writing stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. She has also written children’s picture books, a variety of non-fiction stories, and magazine articles.

Smashwords Interview

What do you read for pleasure?
I like fantasy and historical romance. However, as a youth, I fell in love with the Trixie Beldon series, which is similar to the Nancy Drew mystery series. At the time I wanted to grow up and be a detective and write mystery novels. I drove our neighbors nuts sneaking around the neighborhood looking for clues to some, yet to be discovered, mystery.
How do you approach cover design?
For my non-fiction title: Surviving Denmark on a Bag of Peach Rings, I wanted a fun cover that complimented the title as well as the beautiful Kingdom of Denmark.

For Farewell, My Denmark, I hired a professional cover artist. We went through a lot of trial and error before we found the girl on the cover. She looks similar to Catherine Erichsen, the main character, the greenery is similar to that in Denmark.
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Tina Peterson Scott online

Books

Christmas Candles
Price: $0.99 USD. Language: English. Published: November 22, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Holiday » Christmas
In this short story, Christa walks to Odense, Denmark, on Christmas eve with nothing but a basket of Christmas candles, her mother’s worn shawl, and hopes of living with an uncle she’s never met. Hungry and alone, Christa trudges through the snow while praying for a Christmas miracle.
Love in Alaska, A Love Around the World Romance
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 30,470. Language: English. Published: July 18, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Seeing a waitress should not make an educated woman shrink with fear. However, when fourth grade teacher Marcia Williams enters a restaurant and sees a waitress, memories of her ex and his affinity for waitresses stop her in her tracks. It takes Storm Gaige’s gentle hand of reassurance to guide her inside. He is handsome, kind, and polite. He’s an educator, like her, and he wants a family, too.
Menopausal Fairy Mischief
You set the price! Words: 94,060. Language: English. Published: June 24, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
Night sweats and mood swings won’t keep Angela Anderson from the fairies she’s spent a lifetime adoring—but her husband might.
My Sweet Danish Rose
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 86,910. Language: English. Published: January 31, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Inspirational, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
(4.00 from 1 review)
For fifteen-year-old Berta Erichsen, the key to her happily ever after is getting Jens to read her Book of Mormon. Before she has the chance to share her precious copy, it is stolen by a young man determined to see its destruction.
Farewell, My Denmark
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 81,350. Language: English. Published: March 15, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Christian » Romance, Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
(5.00 from 1 review)
A failed engagement and the last minute defiance by her sister has Catherine Erichsen questioning everything she once believed. As Catherine, her parents, and hundreds of Mormon converts leave their homes and almost everything they hold dear, they immigrate to America on a journey filled with trials, sacrifice, and danger. Inspired by the true accounts of immigrants aboard the John J. Boyd.

Smashwords book reviews by Tina Peterson Scott

  • A Candlelight Courting: A Short Christmas Romance on Sep. 30, 2012
    (no rating)
    A Candelight Courting, by Joyce DiPastena was the most beautiful story I’ve read in a long time. Meg has renamed herself Christina, and plans to become a nun. She has dreamed of that moment since she can remember, but more than that, she has a secret desire that consumes her. Meg’s father, Sir Alun, is less than supportive of his daughter’s religious plans. On Christmas eve, the family and neighbors are in the great hall feasting while Christina is in her room praying. When Sir Alun hears her loud prays and knows that she is not asleep, he storms to her room. After a sound tongue-lashing, he leaves, but Christina realizes she is not alone. Sir Alun let Burthred, the man Meg was betrothed to as an infant, into the room in hopes that he will compromise her virtue and he can insist on a Christmas wedding. Burthred has his own secret. This story is about desires of the heart, feelings of unworthiness, trust and acceptance.
  • A Candlelight Courting: A Short Christmas Romance on Sep. 30, 2012

    A Candelight Courting, by Joyce DiPastena was the most beautiful story I’ve read in a long time. Meg has renamed herself Christina, and plans to become a nun. She has dreamed of that moment since she can remember, but more than that, she has a secret desire that consumes her. Meg’s father, Sir Alun, is less than supportive of his daughter’s religious plans. On Christmas eve, the family and neighbors are in the great hall feasting while Christina is in her room praying. When Sir Alun hears her loud prays and knows that she is not asleep, he storms to her room. After a sound tongue-lashing, he leaves, but Christina realizes she is not alone. Sir Alun let Burthred, the man Meg was betrothed to as an infant, into the room in hopes that he will compromise her virtue and he can insist on a Christmas wedding. Burthred has his own secret. This story is about desires of the heart, feelings of unworthiness, trust and acceptance. It has all the power and emotion of a full-length novel.