SoMa

<B>Welcome To The Neighborhood </B><P> To outsiders San Francisco is all one big city. But to those in the know there is SoMa South of Market where sleek eateries are squeezed between bail bonds storefronts and high-priced lofts look out over still rough edges. It's home to a generation of hipsters disillusioned by the dotcom bust restless and searching for the next thrill the next high the next step too far. Sex drugs kink--you can find it anywhere in SoMa if you know where to look. But first you'll need your tour guides. There's Raphe a writer torn between two worlds belonging to neither. Lauren the poor little rich girl living on the edge and pushing farther out. Mark beautiful and cruel who lives for games the more extreme the better. Baptiste hot smooth and maybe as real as it gets. And Julie both an object of desire and a pretty pawn to be played. <P> In a glittering surreal subculture of private sex clubs and kept boys identity theft and betrayal nihilism redemption and sometimes love they're spinning out of control and into each other's orbits desperately looking for something real--something that will show them who they really are. In this provocative intense novel Kemble Scott puts a new neighborhood on the literary map for good in a tale that is disturbing gritty wholly original and utterly unforgettable. <P> <B>Praise for SoMa and Kemble Scott: </B><P> Scott provides us with an insider's look at a little known and gritty underground world. . .Shockingly his raw and gritty account of this dark world is all true which makes for an even more fun ride. --Andy Behrman bestselling author of <I>Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania</I> <P> I read the first page of <I>SoMa</I> and never put it down until I read the last page. . .I know people who are less real than these characters. --Joe Quirk bestselling author of <I>The Ultimate Rush</I> <P> <I>SoMa</I> tells. . .what's really happening in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. . .It's one man's story of a twisted journey and compromised redemption. San Francisco can be a city of extremes and we see one here. --Craig Newmark Creator of Craigslist <P><B>Kemble Scott</B> is the pen name of a successful and influential journalist. Using this pseudonym Kemble is a writer and editor at San Francisco's subculture e-zine <I>SoMa Literary Review.</I> In the non-fiction world of television news he has been honored with three Emmy awards and is an alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.