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Tweed Scott joined the US Navy to see the world. He left for boot camp the morning after his high school graduation from Laconia, NH. Within a few months, he found himself stationed in Kingsville, TX as a parachute rigger. He says coming to Texas was a complete culture shock. Within two years, he met his future wife, a native Texan. He’s quick to point out, “If you marry a Texas girl, your life is over! You are not going anywhere.” He knew he would have to assimilate and he did. His love grew for his adopted state.
After the Navy, he attended Lamar University and graduated with a BBA in Marketing. While in college, he ‘fell into radio’ and after graduation followed broadcasting as his chosen career path. Over the next 31 years, he led a storied and never dull career. At one point, he was the Operations Manager of the highest rated FM station in America. From there, he took on an AM station and turned it into the 5th highest rated AM station in America. He retired from the business in 2001.
He began writing professionally just before leaving broadcasting. He began writing for CountryLine Magazine and wrote stories for the Austin Business Journal.
He opened his own writing business, Tejas Communications, in late 2004. He writes marketing collateral and web site content. As he tells it, “It was strange in a way. I literally wrote thousands of commercials and promotional spots while I was in broadcasting. I never once, in all those years, thought to myself, ‘Gee, I’m writing.’ It was just a function of my job. It was something you had to do to go into the studio to produce a commercial. Becoming a writer was just a natural progression for me.” 
From Texas In Her Own Words:
Texas is special. Ask anyone who lives there or was born within her borders and they will you. There is a mystique about Texas. It’s as real as the air you breathe. Texans possess an innate sense of belonging to something special. They somehow know they are an intrinsic part of something bigger than themselves. You can see it in the way they carry themselves. There is a swagger in their step. It’s as though they are born with an extra gene or chromosome teeming with pride and a can do attitude.
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Texas In Her Own Words…deserves a place on your bookshelf.
Say right between Larry McMurtry and J. Frank Dobie.
-- Kinky Friedman
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Texas In Her Own Words is a labor of love. It was never going to be a book. It was the result of a stupid comment made at the dinner table one night. I have to come clean with you. I was not born in Texas. I did not get here as quick as I could. I got here as quick as I got sent. I married a Texas native and my son was born here too. One night, I was gritchen and complaining to my son about something. Suddenly, my wife, so out of character for her said to my son, “Tyler, do not pay any attention to your dad. Understand. You have something your father will never ever have. You son, were born in Texas!” I thought to myself, “How arrogant is that? How Texan. These people are born with an extra gene. There is a ‘T-Chromosome’ and I’m going to go find it.”
That’s what I did. I traveled all over Texas and interviewed over 100 people from all walks of life and asked them two questions. What makes Texas so, by God, different than anywhere else on the planet and, when it applied to them, what’s it mean to you personally to be a native Texan…What’s that all about? I was amazed by the answers. By the time I finished, I found that there are at least four traits that all Texans share, regardless of where they live. That is what Texas In Her Own Words is about. It’s also what I talk about in my presentations.
Since the release of Texas In Her Own Words, Tweed has been doing less copywriting and making more appearances talking about Texas. He calls it ‘The Gospel of Texas.’ He has served as the Master of Ceremonies for Texas Trivia Day at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin; he has held four successful book signings at The Alamo. He has also spoken before the Executive Women in Texas Government.
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Tweed Scott
