About the Author
Bill Henry Edge was born in Manchester, England, moving to nearby Stockport as a teenager. He now lives near Spokane, WA, USA, with his American artist wife Rozella(Zelly). Bill has been an artist, cartoonist & illustrator for the majority of his working life, in addition to being a professional performance clown for most of that time. He's also a playwright and wrote plays ‘Starved for Cotton’ & ‘Cottontales’ a musical comedy, both set among Victorian Lancashire cotton workers. He’s presently working on several screenplays & the follow-up Blip story, ‘Blip and the Sloppy Mop Conspiracy.’

About the Book:
Billy Dobbs, aka ’Blip’, is the last person anyone (especially himself) would choose to save the world. After all, he’s only 12 & just not designed to be a hero. He has serious health problems, is very short, fat, & continually runs out of breath.
But after some very unusual events when Blip discovers who is living beneath the local cemetery, he finds he has been chosen to save the Earth & his ordinary little life is to be turned on its head. He’s going to realize we all live in a strange universe where impossible and unimaginable things happen.
Blip is told ‘Grackrots,’ a warlike group of aliens, are about to invade Earth, to destroy it & its inhabitants. In order for Blip to save the planet from sure destruction he’ll have to travel across time & space to another dimension Earth, where time stands still, ancient creatures roam & Grackrots armies are gathering to invade Earth. There Blip will find unexpected help & come to learn sometimes all a hero needs is a sense of humor & a lot of imagination.
‘Blip and the Seat of Arthur’ is a hilarious & thrilling adventure novel.

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The day Blip first received notice he’d been chosen to save the world had started like any other Monday morning. There’d been the usual “Get out of the bathroom, now!” rows and “I’m not eating toast that color!” arguments, then the problem of trying to find why his shoes had vanished and where his homework and school books were, before getting into the car and being driven to school by a very ill-tempered and harassed father.
He’d had spent a long and fairly boring day at St. Egbert’s. The only time he’d thought it had been worth going in was at playtime, when he was able to have a few short-lived adventures with his mates James and Jamie.
He’d come back from school to the usual greeting of “Have you got any homework?” to which he’d replied with an appalled “No!” as though it was one of the most stupid questions he’d ever heard; but a quick scout through his schoolbag would have shown he was fibbing.
After a quick snack, he was out of the house playing on the Semmy with his friends. The ‘Semmy’ was the local cemetery in Willow Grove which, because the local population refused to die at the rate the Council had planned for, had large open unused areas that all the locals treated as a play spot.
In the center of the main Semmy field was a large dip. Even on the driest of days it contained enough mud to keep a family of warthogs happy and it was into this that Blip and his friends rolled as they were playing their favorite game—‘Knights of the Round Table.’
Blip’s dad was mad on castles and suits of armor, so Blip had had an interest in that sort of thing from being very young. His real name was Billy Dobbs but when he was very little he could only pronounce it as something that sounded like ‘Blippylob’ and so that’s what the family called him for a time until it got shortened to ‘Blip.’ Now that’s what everybody called him.
The name also seemed appropriate because a ‘blip’ means ‘a little squiggle on a straight line,’ so it’s a word that’s used to describe a kind of hiccup in the normal running of things.
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