Finn Briscoe

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About Finn Briscoe

Finn here. I write short stories and novels. Here's what I usually say in a bio: A tech entrepreneur with a passion for Latin American fiction, who didn't make it big but did make it bust, I grew up on a farm but never sang "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" while skipping through fields of waving grain. At the age of eighteen, I began to wander across the border of legality to help finance an itinerant lifestyle and an education in Latin American literature. I found responsibility abruptly when my wife gave me the first of three wonderful gifts (our children). Scared of starving kids, I began studying engineering, cut my teeth in Silicon Valley, and eventually started a pirate telephone company. More successful and less risky than other illegal activities, it eventually died, but I didn't.

That's pretty stuffy, so let me make it quick: Shit happens!

My first novel is God Is A Mortician, which I call punk sci-fi. It's a book of religious, sexual, and political satire written around an improbable love story between a human and an extraterrestrial beauty, mocking the sci-fi genre itself. Then there are two series of creative nonfiction (fancy name for memoir with a twist). The first is Fun Lovin´ Finn, hippy adventure and humor that takes us back to the pot-smokin', rock 'n rollin' 1970s. The second one, Finn on the Farm, is composed of more poignant tales of the childhood adventures and misadventures of a boy growing up on a farm. Everything is written in a sardonic voice that Finn Briscoe just can't shake.

The two goals I have when I write are (1) enjoyability and (2) something to think about. I hope to give you as a reader the chance to find either or both in the pages published here.

If you care, my academic background includes a B.A. and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Amherst College and UT-Austin, respectively, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, leading me to become a multilingual techie in my professional life before embarking on my career as an author.

My short stories have been published in Calliope Literary Journal, Jokes Review, cc&d, and nagarimagazine.com, the latter in Spanish.

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Rookie Reefer Bandidos - 1970: Fifty Pounds from Mexico to Massachusetts (Fun Loving Finn Book 1) Apr 29, 2020

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Finn spins a captivating memoir story about two college freshmen who have a hare-brained drug smuggling scheme. It’s the spring of 1970 and hippy culture is in full bloom. After a road trip down Route 66 to Arizona in a ’55 Chevy, their plan is to import at least fifty pounds of marijuana from Mexico to Massachusetts over spring break. If they make it, the pot-smoking hippies could each make a cool couple of grand. Plan B is prison.
If Mark Twain were a baby boomer coming of age during the Vietnam War, maybe he’d have written about the adventures of Finn Briscoe. But since the great Missouri scribe is long gone, Finn himself is doing his best to carry on the literary tradition of his native state.
Buckle up, you’re in for a wild ride. With Nixon invading Cambodia and campuses all over the country going out on strike, two eighteen-year-olds and their sixteen-year-old sidekick are risking their freedom in Mexico and Arizona for fifty pounds of reefer madness.

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Finn Studies Spanish (Fun Loving Finn Book 5) Jan 14, 2021

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Finn just wants to communicate with the señoritas but gets a lot more in the bargain. In small towns set in splendor, whether in the mountains or by the sea, he is blessed with the friendship and hospitality of the Mexican people: honest, simple, and decent.

This is education!

Billy Jewel and The Fish and The Vietnam Lottery (Fun Loving Finn Book 2) May 8, 2020

by Finn Briscoe

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Another road trip in the Fun Loving Finn series, this one finds Finn and friends heading southeast from Missouri to Florida. Finn got a good number in the crazy Vietnam lottery and decides to learn something about life in the real world and drops out of college.

When their car breaks down in Atlanta and they’re short on cash, they hole up at the Salvation Army and try to find a new ride while protecting the only possession anybody cares about: his friend Stan’s fish.

Will these teenage hippies find a ride, get ripped off, or make it safely to Florida with the fish?

Don’t miss the provocative book club discussion questions at the end.

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Work Ethic Up In Smoke (Fun Loving Finn Book 3) Jul 16, 2020

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Finn and Drew, partners from the Rookie Reefer Bandidos caper smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts, hook up again, this time in Florida. With good numbers in the Vietnam lottery, they're free to drop out of college and pursue simple hedonism. When they get on tying steel at a construction site in Delray Beach, it turns out their colleagues are a jovial lot of prisoners on work release from the Florida State Penitentiary. The boys live nearby and at lunch they all get high; a good time is had by all. But every now and then, you can imagine that the work ethic...just...goes...up in smoke!

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Finn Tames the Riverboat Rat (Fun Loving Finn Book 4) Sep 27, 2020

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Finn’s next job takes him out on the Mississippi where a redneck boss isn’t fond of long haired hippies. Will the first mate kick ‘Mary Jane’s’ ass, bust him for pot, or go home to find the donkey man who’s screwing his wife?

If Mark Twain were a baby boomer coming of age during the Vietnam War, maybe he'd have written about the adventures of Finn Briscoe. But since the great Missouri scribe is long gone, Finn himself is doing his best to carry on the literary tradition of his native state.

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Fun Loving Finn: Books 1-4 Box Set (Fun Loving Finn Anthology Book 1) Nov 13, 2020

by Finn Briscoe, Andrii Dankovych

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Four Finn Briscoe Adventures:
-->Smuggling pot from Mexico to Massachusetts as a wild and wide-eyed Amherst College freshman from Missouri
-->Three hippies are on a road trip from Missouri to Florida when their car blows up in Atlanta. They crash at the Salvation Army while looking for a $100 set of wheels, but can they keep the pet clownfish alive?
-->Finn and friend get construction jobs with a bunch of prisoners on daytime work release–who corrupts who?
-->Finn comes back to Missouri and gets work on the Mississippi River
Finn's unique voice is full of jest, wit, and sharp humor.

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GOD IS A MORTICIAN: Sex, God, and Ceviche Jun 1, 2020

by Finn Briscoe, Andrii Dankovych

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God becomes addicted to Peruvian ceviche and brings chef Miguel to heaven. Miguel doesn't want the eternal ceviche job and steals God's girlfriend, Shota.

What happens when Shota gets trapped in a human body by the rapture of the female orgasm? When they hijack a visiting Mortician spacecraft and study the reproductive habits of intelligent species on other planets, can she and Miguel find a solution for eternal love before they're caught ?

With scorching commentary on organized religion, our broken political system, and humans' trashing of this beautiful planet, there's something ridiculous or disturbing on almost every page.

Readers say they're reminded of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and have commented that the style and story resemble elements of Vonnegut and Hunter Thompson.

It's a wild ride! Buy it now!

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Big Bad Buck Sheep (Finn on the Farm) May 15, 2020

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There's a mean buck sheep on the loose, and Finn gets trapped in no-man's-land between the yard fence and the coal shed. That ram is born to butt and he's after Finn. With his parents in town, city-slicker Uncle Rob is the only adult for miles around. Uncle Rob's initial reaction: "What am I supposed to do about that?" Good clean fun on the farm ain't so much fun with the big bad buck sheep on the prowl.

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Captain Bob Visits the Farm Feb 26, 2021

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Things get exciting when cousin Caleb visits the farm.

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Fun Loving Finn (4 Book Series)

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From Book 1: Finn spins a captivating memoir story about two college freshmen who have a hare-brained drug smuggling scheme. It’s the spring of 1970 and hippy culture is in full bloom. After a road trip down Route 66 to Arizona in a ’55 Chevy, their plan is to import at least fifty pounds of marijuana from Mexico to Massachusetts over spring break. If they make it, the pot-smoking hippies could each make a cool couple of grand. Plan B is prison.
If Mark Twain were a baby boomer coming of age during the Vietnam War, maybe he’d have written about the adventures of Finn Briscoe. But since the great Missouri scribe is long gone, Finn himself is doing his best to carry on the literary tradition of his native state.
Buckle up, you’re in for a wild ride. With Nixon invading Cambodia and campuses all over the country going out on strike, two eighteen-year-olds and their sixteen-year-old sidekick are risking their freedom in Mexico and Arizona for fifty pounds of reefer madness.

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