Michael Carroll (author) facts for kids

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.

Awards

• 2012: Nominated for "Favourite Newcomer Writer" Eagle Award