Cathy Scott grew up in La Mesa, California and later moved to Mission Beach, California, where she was a single parent to a son, Raymond Somers Jr.
21 Facts About Cathy Scott
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Cathy Scott attended Helix High School in La Mesa, California, Grossmont College and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands in 1990.
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Cathy Scott is the granddaughter of California artist Esther Rose and Frank Rose, and niece of the late Russian Orthodox hieromonk Seraphim Rose.
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Cathy Scott's brother is scientist and author J Michael Scott.
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Cathy Scott's twin sister Cordelia Mendoza is an antiquarian and appraiser.
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Cathy Scott wrote poetry as a teenager and worked on the Helix High School yearbook during her senior year.
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Cathy Scott freelanced for the Mira Mesa Scripps Ranch Sentinel.
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Cathy Scott then became business editor of the La Jolla Light weekly newspaper after winning a Best of Show journalism award out of 1,200 entries from the San Diego Press Club.
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Cathy Scott then moved to a daily paper, the Vista Press, in North San Diego County.
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Cathy Scott left the Vista Press to string as a correspondent for the Associated Press and The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Cathy Scott contributed to two other anthologies, The Big Book of Social Media and Masters of True Crime.
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Cathy Scott has coached writers, including at the Flathead River Writers Conference in Montana and San Diego State University's Writers' Conference.
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Cathy Scott taught journalism and advanced magazine writing for five years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Journalism until September 2005, when she traveled to New Orleans as an embedded reporter for Best Friends Animal Society to cover animal rescues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for its magazine and website.
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Cathy Scott sat as the Nevada State Sunshine Chair for ten years, until 2007, and on the Society of Professional Journalists Sunshine Committee.
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Cathy Scott's sixth book, Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, with photos by Clay Myers and foreword by actress Ali MacGraw, was a result of Scott's four months on the Gulf Coast writing about the largest rescue of animals in US history.
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Cathy Scott participated in the 2008 National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted by First Lady Laura Bush, on the National Mall in Washington, DC Cathy Scott was a speaker at the 2011 No More Homeless Pets National Conference.
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Cathy Scott appeared on three Oxygen network "Snapped" segments concerning murder cases involving women and on Unsolved Mysteries about the Tupac Shakur investigation.
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In 2013, The Huffington Post reported that Cathy Scott was co-writing, with former drug kingpin "Freeway" Rick Ross, his autobiography, released in 2014.
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TMZ, which broke the story, reported that video director Hezues R' and Cathy Scott had settled the matter and agreed upon a screen credit at the end of the video.
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Cathy Scott co-authored The Crime Book volume with American crime writers Shanna Hogan, Lee Mellor, Rebecca Morris and British author Michael Kerrigan, with a foreword for the US edition by Cathy Scott and the UK edition by author Peter James.
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Cathy Scott was married to Raymond Somers, with whom she has a son, Raymond Somers Jr.