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Humor and Comedy, Biography, Business

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Raymond Chandler, Joseph Heller, Stan Lee, Lisa Canfield

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A novelist, screenwriter and ghostwriter, Canfield has lived in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Miami Beach, Auckland, New Zealand, and his own personal Pennsylvania trifecta, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre and his hometown of Bethlehem. He now resides in Hermosa Beach, California with his writer-editor wife Lisa and socially awkward dog Ivy.

Canfield’s books include Dark Sky, Blue Fire, Red Earth and White Rain (the first four books in his Max Bowman series); What's Driving You???: How I Overcame Abuse and Learned to Lead in the NBA (co-authored with Keyon Dooling and Lisa Canfield); Pill Mill: My Years of Money, Madness, Sex and Drugs (co-authored with Christian Valdes and Lisa Canfield); and 226: How I Became the First Blind Person to Kayak t ...more

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	Dark Sky (The Misadventures of Max Bowman, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 1,056 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Red Earth (The Misadventures of Max Bowman, #3) by Joel Canfield (Goodreads Author), A.J. Canfield (Illustrator), Lisa Canfield (Editor) 3.87 avg rating — 169 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Rain (The Misadventures of Max Bowman, #4) 4.31 avg rating — 75 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brain Worm (The Misadventures of Max Bowman Book 5) by Joel Canfield (Goodreads Author), Lisa Canfield (Editor), AJ Canfield (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New trailer for my novel

Yes, RED EARTH came out four months ago, but I finally got around to producing the video for it. Hope you'll take a look (and maybe even read the book if you haven't!).

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Published on July 27, 2017 06:42 • Tags: blue-fire, dark-sky, joel-canfield, max-bowman, red-earth

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