About the Author

Deepak Menon was born in the picturesque town of Dehradun near the beautiful hill town of Mussoorie in India. He inherited a taste for fine reading in English from his parents. He acquired greater insight into the nuances of the English language from his aunt, who was a teacher of English Literature and Geography as well as the Principal of one of the town's largest English medium schools. Having developed a voracious appetite for reading books of all genres early in his youth, Deepak Menon writes with unique ideas and a vivid imagination. The well of literary creativity brimmed over when he needed to tell his little son and daughter bedtime stories somewhere in the nineties. The children, along with some of the other little children who came into the ambit of his home, were so excited by the books that he wrote down all the stories and kept them with him. He and his wife worked in senior management positions in a commercial bank in India, and living the life of a banker did not provide him time to build on the foundations of the book for the next two decades. Finally, with his children set on course in life, he voluntarily resigned his bank officers job early to start a new innings as an author. Deepak Menon was always fond of word-play, and there is no dearth of it in all the books of the "Tales of the Booga Dooga Land". In fact the very concept of making a 'Plan' will change after the reader has read the book. He has now published 3 full length tales of the Booga Dooga Land viz Pickwick's Plan, The Wormus and now The Horus. He plans to publish more books of the 'Tales of the Booga Dooga Land' in the coming year. He also plans to complete his Science Fiction Novel spanning planets and also plans to complete and publish a "period" novel in the next couple of years, which will be the mirror of the times. It is about the adventures of two runaways in Mumbai. He also plans to publish another 3 volumes of poetry in the next few years.