[1] Scott's father composed songs for school musicals, for which her mother Joy Watson, herself a best-selling author of children's books,[2] wrote the lyrics.
[4] She gained an NZSA mentorship with author David Hill,[3] going on to study the one-year Whitireia Polytechnic’s Diploma in Creative Writing course[5] with tutor Mandy Hager in 2011.
[8] Scott and her husband Paul[5] have four sons and two grandsons, and live in Havelock North,[2] Hawke's Bay.
[3] Scott's personal experience of raising boys, listening to them and their friends, and teaching cello and guitar to high school students has influenced and inspired her writing for young adults.
[8] The publisher of Coming Home to Roost commented on the authenticity of the dialogue and the teenager-parent relationships displayed in her writing, and noted the young adult novel as the first of its kind published in New Zealand to explore unplanned parenthood from the father's point of view.