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WelcomePraised by Andre Norton, among others, as an "excellent combination of science fiction and fantasy," the well-received Blessing novels concern a post-apocalyptic future set in a fictitious Ireland (Imram), in which the ability to read and write has been almost lost and strange religions reign. The action and adventure of the four novels dramatize through many twists and turns the rediscovery through the Blessing family of an almost forgotten past as portrayed in the final recovery of the hidden Blessing Papers themselves.
William Barnwell was born during the middle of WWII. He has won prizes for short stories and poetry and earned a Ph.D. in English. In the early eighties, Colin Smythe published his first novel, The Blessing Papers, in England. Simon & Schuster bought the paperback rights and contracted him for three more in a series. He helped start a high-tech company and ran it before publishing his fifth novel, Scheme-of-the-Month Club, with early POD technology; it is also available in bookstores or online. The Authors Guild’s Back-in-Print program re-issued the first four novels. After selling his company, Barnwell chose to teach in inner-city high schools. Of the novels begun or finished during that time, The Green Fuse, an international eco-terrorist novel, and Bling-Bling High, a YA novel, are currently making the rounds of traditional publishers. His eighth novel in progress, Off Base, is a detective thriller and will draw on a short period of time during the nineties when he observed, with a now deceased friend, how private investigators work.
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