introduction

This is the vanity domain of Martin McClellan. This site is about Martin’s writing, although his day job is as a web designer.

humor

The other day, in the supermarket, he overheard a six-year old child ask his father “Daddy? Would you rather eat a bag of Cheetos or chew tobacco?” He laughed so hard he didn’t hear the reply. Just now he realized that it describes the color scheme of this website.

writing

Martin is a writer. He writes short stories. He writes novels—four unpublished ones to date. He writes screenplays, both short and feature length with his writing partner, the stellar Kent M. Beeson. One script they wrote, titled YELLOW, finished in the top 100 during the third Project Greenlight competition.

hobbies & interests

Martin is disproportionately excited by typography and materials about typographers. He collects specimen sheets, ephemera and letterpress printed broadsides. He is a musician and plays guitar. He’s a big computer nerd. He loves eating good food. He rides public transportation. He loves history, because everything interesting has a history and that makes the history of everything interesting interesting.

lifestyle

Martin lives in Seattle in an 1929, 800 square foot apartment with an incredible woman. They have two birds and no children. They don’t own a car, but ride Metro and were very early members of Flexcar, which got bought by Zipcar and is not local anymore, but still serviceable. They have a small sliver of a view of Elliott Bay.

conclusion

Martin is an optimist, and mostly good natured. He’d probably like you if you cross paths at some time.

contact

You now know everything that is needed to successfully ignore, or potentially engage Martin in some sort of dialogue. If the latter is your desire, you can find him by emailing him at martin@martinmcclellan.com

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