Books by Michael Scofield

After an accident in Connecticut kills their toddler, Jane and Joe Tash, as part of therapy, write the book You Can Save Us All. Santa Fe’s Surely You Jest Press contracts to publish it. The Tashes believe their book will convince readers to protest in a major way against nuclear armament and environmental degradation. But the reality of getting a book published in hardcover, softcover, and eBook formats—amid escalating personality clashes—threatens to halt their efforts, as well as bankrupt the press.Couples uncouple, a best-selling author traumatizes Jane by flashing, and a son shuns his children, wife, and mother. Then out of the blue, a guardian angel appears.

This book honors the legions of people in the United States who are dedicating their lives to helping others. The representative thirteen in-depth talks with fourteen people you're about to eavesdrop on took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The author has g

Former husband-and-wife hedge-fund managers work an Internet scam, inviting patrons to spend a weekend improving their sex techniques-unaware that spy cams track their every bounce and moan. While the patrons set themselves up for blackmail, Raven, the sex facilitator, falls in love with the co-owner's husband. They plot to poison his wife even as the wife decides to kill them. Meanwhile, Flasher Cobb and his girlfriend, camped in a refuge near Kat's Harbor for the Homeless, supply the sex hacienda with cocaine. A group of the homeless, led by a composer, a retired New York Times reporter, and an Iraq-War veteran who calls himself Stormy Weathers, bust the scam wide open. In the doing, the composer and his long-estranged daughter reunite.

The arrangement of the eighty-one poems inside "Circus Americana" creates a story arc. The first two sections-"Not Getting Along" and "Bewilderment"-set the stage for the third section, "Burned Out." The last two sections, "Friends" and "I Love You," share incitements for enjoying more of the show. For you, my reader, I wish a sense of enlightenment (however false, however fleeting) and a little fun.Yale University graduate Michael Scofield received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2002. In 2006, Sunstone Press published "Whirling Backward into the World," his second collection, and "Acting Badly," the first novel in his Santa Fe trilogy, followed by "Making Crazy" and "Smut Busters."

Another beautiful Santa Fe spring as four uneasy couples trample each other's lives in the search for love. Making Crazy, the second novel in Scofield's "e;Santa Fe"e; trilogy, explores the emptiness of love under false pretenses. As mishaps pile up, the increasingly frantic dance forces everyone to abandon compromise in hope of a fresh start. Yale University graduate MICHAEL SCOFIELD received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College in 2002. In 2006, Santa Fe's Sunstone Press published "e;Whirling Backward into the World,"e; his second book of poems, and "e;Acting Badly,"e; the first novel in his Santa Fe trilogy.

As in the lives of people we all know, this story presents a dozen fictional Santa Feans trying to love, yet mistreating, each other the week before US forces invade Iraq. "e;The aggression that dominates American life today,"e; says author Michael Scofield, "e;goads them into brandishing their dark sides."e; Married realtor Maxine Morgan, for instance, coaxes conservative mortgage broker Ron Kirkpatrick (and others) into bed. Ron's not-quite-yet-psychotic wife Lila tries to seduce handyman Victor Valdez. High-tech writer Manny Barnes falsely promises his fiancee to give up in-your-face activism. CPA Chuck Ridley leaves his family for Silicon Valley CEO Bret, who changes his mind about war. In an ambiance of black humor and misfiring sex, readers will find themselves embracing Maxine's attempt to escape from nymphomania after meeting a retired war correspondent, Victor's desperate scheme to care for his mother while returning to carving Santos, Lila's plan to destroy Maxine, Manny's longing to give Joyce a baby, and Chuck's joy in discovering he's gay. You'll laugh a lot--but you'll also weep to see how our increasing turmoil at home in the United States mirrors our ongoing behavior overseas. Yale University graduate MICHAEL SCOFIELD received his MFA in Writing from Vermont College in 2002. Currently he teaches creative-writing skills to half a dozen students one-on-one. The author of two books of poems, "e;Silicon Valley Escapee"e; (2000) and "e;Whirling Backward into the World"e; (2006), he also has published books on bird-watching and do-it-yourself upholstering. Before moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1995, his wife and he ran a high-tech marketing-communications business from their home in Palo Alto, California.