Michael Carroll (Irish writer)

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Michael Carroll
Born (1966-03-21) 21 March 1966 (age 58)
Dublin, Ireland
Pen nameJaye Carroll, Sprout
OccupationNovelist
Genre Science fiction, romantic fiction
SpouseLeonia (née Mooney)
Website
michaelowencarroll.com

Michael Owen Carroll (born 21 March 1966) is an Irish writer of novels and short stories for adults and children. He is best known for his series of superhero novels The New Heroes (called Quantum Prophecy in the US), and for his romantic fiction under the name Jaye Carroll. He also writes Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine.

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Biography

After leaving school at sixteen, Carroll worked as a postman. He moved into computer programming in 1985, at the age of nineteen. In 1990 he met his future wife, Leonia Mooney, at the first Octocon (the modern series of Irish National Science Fiction Conventions). He was an Octocon committee member in 1992, 1997 and 2003–2004, and in 2004 he succeeded James Brophy as chairperson, overseeing a successful convention, after the event took a break in 2003, with guest-of-honour Tanith Lee.

He published his first novel, The Last Starship, in 1993, and he became a full-time writer in 1999. He also maintains a website of humorous articles about the history of British comics, called Rusty Staples. [1]

Bibliography

Novels and novellas

The Third Law, The Process of Elimination, and For I Have Sinned (which were e-books) were collected in an omnibus paperback volume called Rico Dredd: The Titan Years in 2019.

Pelicos Trilogy

Published under the name Jaye Carroll

  • If the Shoe Fits (978-1853719578, Poolbeg, March 2000) Polish title: XXL (Amber, 2002)
  • The Sweetest Feeling ( ISBN   978-1842230497, Poolbeg Press, July 2001) Polish title: Smak Zemsty (Amber, 2002)
  • Loving the Stars ( ISBN   978-1842230695, Poolbeg Press, June 2002) Polish title: Gwiazda Estrady (Amber, 2003)
  • Looking for Mr. Wrong ( ISBN   978-1842231487, Poolbeg Press, August 2004)

The New Heroes

The New Heroes series (known in America as Quantum Prophecy) includes:

Short stories

Articles

The Sprout Spinner

The Sprout Spinner is an interactive CD-ROM application made to accompany The Brentford Mercury for SproutLore. The short stories written for it by Michael Carroll were all based upon songs by his favourite pop group, Alphaville. Two of the stories had been published in the Alphaville fanzine Moonpaper.[ citation needed ]

Comics

Awards

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References

  1. Rusty Staples
  2. First Sprout column Archived 28 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine , 2000AD review
  3. "Nominations". EagleAwards.co.uk. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2014.