Michael Carroll (author)
| Michael Carroll | |
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| Born |
21 March 1966 Dublin, Ireland |
| Pen name | Jaye Carroll, Sprout |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Genre | Science fiction, romantic fiction |
| Spouse | Leonia (née Mooney) |
| Website | |
| michaelowencarroll |
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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 and his romantic fiction under the name Jaye Carroll.
After leaving school at sixteen, he 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 National Irish Science Fiction Convention, . He became a full-time writer in 1999.
The New Heroes series (known in America as Quantum Prophecy) includes:
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.
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