Carl Meadows

Now an award-winning author, Carl Meadows had his first novel published at the age of 30. Seriously, just one copy. It was a birthday present from a friend and sits in a gift box on his shelf. It was a valiant attempt but needed some serious work, because according to that same friend and test reader, it apparently contained a character he could only describe as "a social worker with kung fu." For the record, that was definitely not Carl's intention and he has worked very hard on his characters since that epiphany.

A passionate lover of sci-fi, fantasy, and a little splash of LitRPG, his day job is being a psychic magician... or in other words, using problem solving skills as a supply chain expert in an electro-mechanical manufacturing setting and somehow keeping the factory operating with the two thousand parts it needs.

Carl is a father of three, won a bit of a fight with cancer in 2022, and lives in the northern English county of Cheshire. Sarcasm is his native language.

His first published trilogy across 2020 and 2021 is 'Lockey vs the Apocalypse,' a series expanding on the world of Chris Philbrook's highly acclaimed and bestselling zombie apocalypse series, 'Adrian's Undead Diary,' with a zombie slaying female lead that is one part horror, one part action, one part moving, and many parts laugh out loud. Carl has since collaborated again with Chris Philbrook as a guest author in the crossover Book 13 of the main series of Adrian's Undead Diary, 'Ghosts.'

'No More Heroes' - the first novel of Lockey's trilogy and his debut published novel - was the winner of the 'Apocalyptica' category of the 2021 Independent Audiobook Awards.

So yes, he published a trilogy and won an award before generative AI was even a thing in the literary space, and is very relieved that his work can be dated before the invasion of AI made it difficult for creators and artists. For the record, he's not a fan of generative AI. At all.