Recent content by Boopadoo

Arthur of The Britons I remember watching it with my brothers on PBS as a kid. My mother considered it educational, so she'd let me stay up past normal bedtime. I became so enthralled, I did a grammar school research report from the perspective of an archeologist working on the site of a Celtic...

I saw that in the theater in 1985. My girlfriend at the time was unhappy with me afterward for trying to convince her it wouldn't be all that scary... Ah, the college years...

Sigh. Is it Spring yet?

I need it, I can't concentrate without it. If I can't have music, I choose crowded noisy places like the cafeteria at work , restaurants, etc. The music/noise occupies the part of my brain that's easily distracted; keeps it from wandering off on tangents and silliness. That way, the part that...

I'm back. Still querying Paige 99, but starting to write again, with my old fervor...

Back in 2010, during my first run here on Litopia, a hot discussion was the Page 99 rule (curious how it's now Page 117). I went so far as to name my protagonist Paige 99, with the preset idea that the novel would be a roller-coaster ride, start to finish, based on this notion. I will not be...

Hello and welcome!

Hello and welcome!

Hello, Red John, and welcome to the Colony! ;)

Finally back in it - sent a batch of new queries this weekend, with rewritten chapters and a new approach. Why does my stomach hurt now?

Year of the Dog! Woot! Or shall I say it... ...Woof!

Welcome and hello!

Hello and welcome!

My head's always like that. I can't turn it off. I call my blog "Tales from a Crowded Mind." Most people, when I go into Storyland and get the blank stare and "huh, what?" demeanor, ask "Where'd you go just now?" Mrs Boopadoo, after many years of marriage, learned to ask "You were just...

My first attempts at novels, a fantasy trilogy in which the characters are canines, felines, simians and lizards. Someday I'll rewrite them with my improved powers. A paranormal noir focusing on a rakshasa (weretiger) and human psi, in which there is no magic - I figured out believable science...