Marcus Speh


Location Berlin, Germany
Occupation Writer and Professor
Website http://marcusspeh.com, http://marcusspeh.de
IM (GTalk) marcusspeh [at ] googlemail [dot] com

About Me

Please go to http://marcusspeh.com for my blog, books, non-fiction, flash fiction, interviews and everything else. (Deutsch: http://marcusspeh.de). Formerly known as Finnegan Flawnt at Fictionaut and elsewhere.

Next books: This summer, my flash "Gyoza Express" will appear in "New Sun Rising", an anthology put together for the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan (http://bit.ly/K9Gl9Y). Two of my sto­ries are going to be pub­lished in “In Those Days We” by Jen­nifer Toma­loff in 2012 (http://bit.ly/u3Mfjf). My short story “My Friend Salman Rushdie” is sched­uled for pub­li­ca­tion by Turtle­neck Press for 2012. My first col­lec­tion of short fic­tion, "Thank You For Your Sperm", is sched­uled for pub­li­ca­tion by Mad­Hat Press; my flash novel “Gizella” is sched­uled to be pub­lished by Folded Word Press.

Why do you write?

The answer is somewhere in my profile picture.
I also seek infinite wisdom, fame and money.

Any favorite authors? Books?

I've lately enjoyed the following books written by friends: Gill Hoffs, Wild (Pure Slush); Susan Tepper, From The Umberplatzen (Wilderness House); Kathy Fish, Wild Life; Henning Koch, Love Doesn't Work (Dzanc); Carol Novack, Giraffes in Hiding (Spuyten Devil). For everything else, I've got (more or less) up to date profiles at Goodreads and at LibraryThing (they can never be up to date because I buy too many books and have too little time to record data before I buy another. I'm an obsessive book buyer, reader and writer, I'm afraid).