About Me (No.1)

My name is Garrett Carr. I grew up in a town a bit like Ballydog and now live in a city a bit like Hardglass. I was born in the summer of 1975. By the time I was ten I was obsessed with monsters. Day and night I would be found drawing them.


A drawing from my childhood that I discovered in the attic


This is me a few weeks ago, hunting a monster

Professionally, I come from a background in illustration. I specialised in the creation of visual tools for education in health and law, using images to reach out to the young, or across language barriers. I did that kind of work for governmental agencies in my native Ireland and for development agencies in Latin America.

There is more random information about me on my page on my publisher’s website.

At this link is a recording of an interview with me about The Badness of Ballydog. It is quite long, early 20 minutes. I am sorry to say about half of that time is me going, ‘ummm.’

Here is a video of me reading a short extract from The Badness of Ballydog.