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.
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
Moonlight (
ISBN978-0862783549, O'Brien Press, October 1993) Published in Italy as "Chi Ha Rapito Chiarodiluna" and in Canada as Clair-De-Lune
She Fades Away (
ISBN978-1853716218, Poolbeg Press, April 1996) German: Die Schrift im Spiegel
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.
"Twenty Things to Remember when going to a Comic Convention" (Meg 245)
"Top Twenty extraordinary 'facts' about Alan Moore" (Meg 246)
"Top Twenty non-2000 AD related comics by 2000 AD creators" (Meg 250)
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
"Overman" (with art by Johnny Rothwell, in Phase Two No. 2, 1994)
"By the Book" (as Sprout, with art by
Bolt-01, in FutureQuake No. 4, 2005)
"Deadline" (as Sprout, with art by
Julia Bax, in FutureQuake No. 5, 2005)
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.
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
Moonlight (
ISBN978-0862783549, O'Brien Press, October 1993) Published in Italy as "Chi Ha Rapito Chiarodiluna" and in Canada as Clair-De-Lune
She Fades Away (
ISBN978-1853716218, Poolbeg Press, April 1996) German: Die Schrift im Spiegel
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.
"Twenty Things to Remember when going to a Comic Convention" (Meg 245)
"Top Twenty extraordinary 'facts' about Alan Moore" (Meg 246)
"Top Twenty non-2000 AD related comics by 2000 AD creators" (Meg 250)
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
"Overman" (with art by Johnny Rothwell, in Phase Two No. 2, 1994)
"By the Book" (as Sprout, with art by
Bolt-01, in FutureQuake No. 4, 2005)
"Deadline" (as Sprout, with art by
Julia Bax, in FutureQuake No. 5, 2005)