Writer Scott McMillion on the Web

You can find the work of journalist and author Scott McMillion on his new Web site. Scott McMillion is an award-winning journalist, and the author of Mark of the Grizzly. He is also senior editor of the terrific Montana Quarterly magazine for the past five years.

Scott’s Web site has his magazine and newspaper articles, videos, and info about Mark of the Grizzly. The site has the nifty iPaper PDF viewer so you can read his magazine pieces, and see the excellent photography that accompanies them, right there on the site.

Mark of the Grizzly was the very first book I read by a Livingston author just before I moved here in 2002, and I have been reading Scott’s writing ever since. I was also interviewed by Scott for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle when I started LivingstonOutLoud.com in 2005, and I had first-hand experience of how well he gets his subjects. So it was a real pleasure to work with him on his Web site, and to read some of the articles I hadn’t read before.

Scott’s style is distinctive, smart, insightful, wry, and often moving. Consider his lead in for the current Bugle Magazine article “Elvis Has Left the Building” about a well-known Yellowstone bull elk who was, as a Park Service biology technician put it, “as close to being Elvis as any North American ungulate has ever been”:

The biggest, surliest and most charismatically violent bull to ever gore an Aerostar, Number Six was the Elvis of elk, but he wasn’t singing “Love Me Tender.”