Andrew McMillen (@NiteShok) is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia.

His work has been published in:

• Rolling Stone Australia,
• The Australian,
• Qweekend,
• GQ Australia,
• The Global Mail,
• Australian Penthouse,
• Brisbane Times,
• Mess+Noise,
• The Vine, and
• triple j mag.

Andrew was first published in Brisbane street press Rave Magazine in June 2007. He co-founded the independent music conference UnConvention Brisbane in 2010, and was the Queensland ambassador for National Young Writers’ Month 2011. In that role, Andrew coordinated three public Q+As in Brisbane and his hometown of Bundaberg. These events – which featured notable writers and journalists such as John Birmingham, Matthew Condon and Trent Dalton – were attended by a combined total of 200 young Queensland writers.

Here are the six best stories Andrew has written as of November 2012:

• “Why Did L.A. Noire Take Seven Years to Make?” for IGN Australia, June 2011
• “The High Road: Silk Road, an online marketplace like no other” for Australian Penthouse, January 2012
• “Shock To The System: Electroconvulsive therapy” for GQ Australia, March 2012
• “Goal Mining: The ‘digital Lego’ computer game Minecraft” for Qweekend, October 2012
• “What Went Wrong With Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny?” for Kotaku, October 2012
• “Building A Better Brain: Wired on Nootropics” for Rolling Stone, November 2012

This blog, andrewmcmillen.com, serves several purposes: it’s a portfolio of Andrew’s published writing, a hub containing dozens of full-length interviews, and a conversation starter for issues relating to the business of freelance writing.

Find Andrew on: Twitter / Last.FM / YouTube / Vimeo / Delicious / Rdio / Email

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Above photo taken by the wonderful Melbourne-based photographer Mark Lobo. Hire him. (Mark blogged about that photo shoot here.)