Brief Biography

Born Michael Allan McMillan, 10 July, 1967 (New Zealand Decimal Currency Day) in Auckland, New Zealand, where I have lived almost continuously since.

Auckland University, Master of Arts with first class honours in English, specialising in English language, completed 1989 (graduated 1990).

I became a Christian in 1985, my last year at high school, four days after my 18th birthday, through the influence of friends. I had formerly been an atheist. I was increasingly heavily involved with Campus Crusade for Christ throughout university and on graduation joined their staff. To say the least, this turned out to be an inappropriate decision, given my personality and skills, and contributed to a severe stress breakdown in 1990. I had been converted into a charismatic church, but during this time my theology gradually became non-charismatic. I started attending Auckland Bible Church (ABC) in 1991, and recently moved to Cityside Baptist, a "post-evangelical" church with a strong emphasis on the arts.

From 1991 to 1994 I was employed as a freelance editor and writer, mainly by Who's Who in New Zealand but also doing projects for Moa Beckett (Travel and Accommodation Guide) and Random House (text of Boutique Wineries of New Zealand to accompany art photographs by Richard Brimer). In 1994 I took a full-time editor's job with Moa Beckett. I took voluntary redundancy at the end of 1995 and returned to freelancing, to work as a technical documenter and corporate trainer. I now work for Oxygen Business Solutions, designing software and doing consulting work.

I began to learn to draw a couple of years ago, and hope to reach professional standard (van Gough started to learn at 27, you scoffers!). One of my pieces is on this site. I am slowly beginning to put together a novel, The City of Masks, which explores issues of personal identity through a mystery story set in an imaginary Renaissance city. My big recent non-fiction project is the Journey in Four Directions.

I recently married a friend who I met on the Internet, and changed my name (to Reeves-McMillan).

My wife says the Dilbert cartoons make her think of me. I'm not sure how to take that.

I have always had unconventional opinions and expressed them (it runs in the family), and examples of these can be found on this site. They'll tell you more about me.

What I believe.

You can contact me by email if you have any further questions.

Enough about the author. Read the works!

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