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About Me

I'm a novelist. I'm Scottish. I live in London. I write books under my own name, and I also write a series of books about Thraxas under the pseudonym of Martin Scott. My first novel came out in 1987. I've had around 16 books published. Sometimes I've been successful, sometimes not so successful. I write every day. I watch TV, listen to music, read books, and meet friends. I also struggle with agoraphobia. At the moment, the agoraphobia is winning.
My website - www.martinmillar.com
My new book, Lonely Werewolf Girl, has now
been published in Britain , the USA , and Italy .
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Teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is pursued through London by murderous hunters, while in the Scottish Highlands there's trouble at Castle MacRinnalch, as the Werewolf Clan prepares for war.

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Probably my best known book is The Good Fairies of New York , which has now been re-issued by Soft Skull, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
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Scottish thistle fairies Heather and Morag are on the loose in the city, sampling the whisky, helping the needy, and generally causing trouble everywhere.
I won the World Fantasy Award for the first Thraxas book.
My Thraxas website -
www.thraxas.com

My Interests

ancient history
sleeping on the couch
football

I'd like to meet:

Cicero, Livy, Sappho, Aristophanes, Plato, Socrates, Shakespeare,
and possibly you.

Music:

Led Zeppelin, T Rex, The Sex Pistols, Nirvana, The Stone Roses, Captain Beefheart, The Ramones, I.V. Webb, The Pixies, Joy Division, Colt, Enya, Goldfrapp, Andi Sexgang, P. J. Harvey, Eater, X-Ray Spex, The Faces, New York Dolls, Huski, The Runaways

Movies:

Ghost World, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Election, Clueless, Annie Hall, American Graffiti, The Warriors, romantic comedies, and generally anything that isn't scary.

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Books:

Jane Austen
Charles Dickens
P. G. Wodehouse

Heroes:

Cicero

Lara Croft

My Blog

5th June: Missing Stickers

My new Naruto manga is wrapped in plastic, which is unusual. Inside there are free stickers. Aha. The plastic wrapping was to prevent unscrupulous people from stealing the stickers in the shop. But wh...
Posted by Martin Millar on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:25:00 PST

22nd May: Films Comics Therapy

While meandering round the comic shop after a frankly unsatisfactory session with my therapist - this woman may cause me to progress from merely being agoraphobic to actually being a hermit - the them...
Posted by Martin Millar on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:05:00 PST

16th May: No Heat

I woke up this morning to find my heating had stopped working. Called heating engineers. They will arrived to fix it at some indeterminate time in the future.To get me by, I dragged out an old convect...
Posted by Martin Millar on Fri, 16 May 2008 03:51:00 PST

11th May: More Killer Insects

I was strolling home yesterday when I suddenly felt a sharp pain. I looked down and was appalled to see some weird insect had settled down comfortably to chew on my arm. I shook it off and carried on,...
Posted by Martin Millar on Sun, 11 May 2008 12:32:00 PST

4th May: Another Week

My Playstation2 is becoming increasingly erratic. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It's so annoying. I suspect the universe is sending me a message.* Stop playing video games and write som...
Posted by Martin Millar on Sun, 04 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

27th April: Endless Work

It was quite a big week for literary activity in the Millar household. First I went to the local pub to met the foreign rights editor from Kedros, the Greek publisher who will be issuing Lonely Werewo...
Posted by Martin Millar on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:35:00 PST

19th April: Soup

Two new pictures. One, sitting down, taken by Lucy Levene for the interview in The Telegraph last year. (And now carelessly cropped by me, to make it fit). And another taken by a friend outside my fla...
Posted by Martin Millar on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:08:00 PST

12th April: Out Damned Spot

I approached the bathroom mirror with my customary greeting of "Hello you handsome dog," when I noticed I'd developed a spot. Was immediately plunged into gloom. It's so annoying. One compensation you...
Posted by Martin Millar on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:03:00 PST

4th April: Public Lending Right

I’ve been forced to retire to the couch, exhausted from filling in forms for Public Lending Right. Which I’ve neglected to do for the past 18 years. I did register my first few books but f...
Posted by Martin Millar on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST

28th March: Literary Secretary

Have again attempted to outrage public decency, and earn a little cash, with a story in new issue of Skin Two fetish magazine (issue 59). As you can see, they’ve used a photo of my new ’l...
Posted by Martin Millar on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:51:00 PST