Kemble Scott

Kemble Scott is a pseudonym used by American author Scott James (born 1962). His debut novel "SoMa" became a bestseller (San Francisco Chronicle) in the spring of 2007. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/25/RVBESTSELLERS.DTL&type=chart] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/RVBESTSELLERS.DTL&type=chart] The novel tells the interwoven stories of twentysomethings on the prowl for thrills in San Francisco’s South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood following the city’s infamous Dot-com crash. [http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=10300]

At the time SoMa was published, James produced a series of videos for [http://www.youtube.com/kemblescott YouTube] in which he appeared as Kemble Scott to take viewers to the real places that inspired the novel. It’s believed this was the first time an author launched a novel this way. The videos received thousands of views and may have contributed to the book’s bestseller status. The influential tech blog [http://valleywag.com/tech/kemble-scott/ Valleywag] noted the videos, but criticized them for being too tame, compared to the sexually explicit content of the novel.

Prior to working in fiction, James was a longtime television news writer, producer and executive. While at WLNE-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, he was honored with three Emmy awards. During his tenure there as news director, the station twice won the News Station of the Year Award from the Associated Press.

James has an MS from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and a BA from Adelphi University. He resides in San Francisco.

External links

* [http://www.kemblescott.com Author's Homepage]
* [http://www.somalit.com SoMa Literary Review]
* [http://www.youtube.com/kemblescott Kemble Scott's YouTube page]
* [http://www.kemblescott.com/?page=reviews Interviews, reviews and news coverage]
* [http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/interviews/2007/02/joshua_citrak_interviews_kembl.shtml Small Spiral Notebook Literary Journal Q & A with author]
* [http://www.innewsweekly.com/innews/?class_code=Ar&article_code=4163 In Newsweekly profiles Kemble Scott]