 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.In June 2008 the novel "SoMa" was honored as a finalist for the national Lambda Literary award for debut fiction.At the time "SoMa" was published, James produced a series of videos for YouTube in which he appeared as Kemble Scott to take viewers to the real places that inspired the novel.