Press kit.
Everything you need to write about Scotty Boxa and the Waddle Forward Series.
Bios in three lengths. The character cast. Quick-facts table. Contact form below.
At a glance.
| Author | Scotty Boxa |
| Based | Sunshine Coast, Australia |
| Award | 2025 Emotional Education Author of the Year |
| Series | The Waddle Forward Series. Five books. |
| Genre | Self-help, humour |
| Publisher | BOXA Publishing |
| Contact | Contact form |
Three lengths, ready to use.
The series, Hold My Ducks (boundaries), What The Duck Am I Doing With My Life? (direction), Duck Yeah (rebuilding), The Waddle Forward Collection (3-in-1 bundle), and The Strong One Is Tired (burnout for the dependable ones), earned him the 2025 Emotional Education Author of the Year award.
Scotty writes for a reader who has read the bestsellers, owns the journals, has been to therapy on and off for a decade, and still finds themselves googling the same three questions at 11pm on a Tuesday. The books are short, funny, and meet the reader where they actually are.
The Emotional Support Duck on every cover is a structural device, not a metaphor. A small, unthreatening character that holds the difficult thing the reader does not yet have language for. Readers tend to find this comforting in a way they did not expect.
Scotty writes from the Sunshine Coast, Australia, where he also runs a recipe-and-travel imprint under the same name at scottyboxa.com. He has a deep, well-documented intolerance for coffee. He believes the best self-help books do not fix the reader. They make the not-fixed feel survivable.
The Waddle Forward Series is available on Amazon and at waddleforward.com.
Seven angles, pre-built.
Hosts hate inventing angles for guests they have not pre-interviewed. These are the talking points Scotty has already done the prep work on. Pick one. Pick three. Pick the contradiction.
Why self-help written from the finish line is failing the readers who need it most. What it would look like if the genre admitted nobody has arrived.
How four duck character types became a self-help framework, and why the “Which duck are you this week?” question opens conversations the diagnostic questionnaires cannot.
What Australians get right and what Americans get wrong about self-help. Why the genre needed a voice that does not believe in the finish line.
Winning Emotional Education Author of the Year for a book about not having it together. Where the joke ends and the honesty starts.
Who actually buys self-help in 2026. Why the reader who has read every book in the genre is the one nobody writes for. How “the responsible one” became a category.
Why short books, written from the middle of the journey, convert harder than 350-page transformation arcs. The case against the morning-routine genre.
Disappointing Affirmations, the Monday newsletter, and the small marketing tactics that turned a single book into a 5-book series. Indie author meta, told honestly.
The original titles were Hold My Fucks, What The Fuck, and Fuck Yeah. The story of why FUCK became DUCK, how the mascot got built around a swear-word workaround, and what the duck does for the reader once it is on the page. A guaranteed audience moment in any interview.
Currently available for interviews.
Scotty is based on Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) and can record from his desk on the Sunshine Coast. Available for podcast bookings, written interviews, written features, and occasional video calls if the time zone makes sense for the host.
Preferred lead time: at least one week for podcasts, three days for written features. Same-day requests considered if the topic is in scope. Use the contact form below.
Press inquiries
For interviews, podcasts, review copies, or media inquiries, please use the contact form below.