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Mick Rooney was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1968. He has been writing fiction for nearly thirty years and has published nine books. His first book, Arcadia, was published in 1990. It is a poetic novella of the mind and was followed by The Eternal, Hybrid, Thais, and a book of collected shorter fiction in 1995, entitled, Oceanic.

Academy was Mick Rooney’s first full length novel. His second, Filigree & Shadow, was published in November 2008. His last novel, The Memory of Trees, was published by Book Republic, an imprint of Maverick House Publishing, in September, 2011.

He is a publishing consultant and has written many informative and illuminating articles in print magazines and online, including Writers' Forum, about the changing and complex world of the publishing industry. In 2010, he published To Self-Publishing or Not to Self-Publish with Troubador Publishing.

He is currently editor and researcher at The Independent Publishing Magazine and writes for the only UK magazine dedicated to self-publishing - The Self-Publishing Magazine.