AN ACTUAL ANIMAL WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT SOME ANIMALS

My Pup Makes Her Feelings About SOME ANIMALS Known...

We have a new member of our family, her name is Kona and she’s five months old. She loves to play and eat things. She wants you to know she recommends my novel SOME ANIMALS, which she enjoyed very much, especially the chasing part (she loves all kinds of chase stories, and this book is nearly all one big chase)… though she thought there’d be more actual animals in the story. That’s her only note.

Kona with SOME ANIMALS

She hasn’t read Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM and therefore missed the reference. I promised her I’d put more actual animals in upcoming books. She wagged her tail and told me she still loved this one, even though it was about artificially-created people.

She also wanted me to tell you that the e-version of SOME ANIMALS is FREE this week, so please spread the word. Link below.

SOME ANIMALS

And if you have read it already, please tell your friends, and above all else, leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads, or any comparable place.

Reviews matter. Trust the dog, she knows.

It was so tasty she wanted to eat it.

Spread the word and stay safe out there, friends.

SOME ANIMALS

PRAISE FOR SOME ANIMALS

• "SOME ANIMALS is a non-stop sci-fi thrill ride that will keep you reading far into the night. Joshua Todd James fills the page with cinematic actions sequences and snappy dialogue, all anchored by a compelling protagonist that reflects so much of who we are today." - Mike Nguyen Le (screenwriter/producer, PATIENT Z, DARK SUMMER, W.M.D.)

• "Doing noir as sci-fi is a real challenge and this ambitious book pulls it off!"- David Gerrold, Hugo & Nebula award-winning author of THE MARTIAN CHILD, HELLA, THE MAN WHO FOLDED HIMSELF

• "SOME ANIMALS blew my mind. Joshua is the master of moralistic pathos. It's a pathos steeped in a personal code of ethics in each of his characters. Joshua's brilliance is in setting these characters careening down a track fueled by their pathos and the fun happens when characters with opposing drives collide in an action-packed train-wreck of ethics, desires and dreams. Do. Not. Miss. This. Book." - Ato Essandoh, actor (star of Netflix's ALTERED CARBON, AWAY, Amazons TALES FROM THE LOOP, HBO's VINYL, and many more)

• "Joshua Todd James has created a compelling protagonist, a fascinating story universe and a suspenseful mystery, all in one, in his new novel SOME ANIMALS. Think of it as sci-fi nitro in book form. Highly recommended!" - Scott Myers, screenwriter (K-9), author (THE PROTAGONIST'S JOURNEY), professor at DuPaul University and founder of GoIntoTheStory.com

• "Joshua Todd James delivers a one of a kind sci-fi thrill ride. The depth of its characters and its world are remarkable, especially given how quickly it reads." - Nathan Graham Davis, author of MALICE AND MISTLETOE

• "I started reading SOME ANIMALS at 7 AM and didn't stop until I was finished.  Joshua Todd James has created a vibrant, fiery futuristic world that we instantly believe in, and characters that hook us deep for this truly wild ride.  But this is much more than a cracking good 'Who done it?'  It's a story that breaks both boundaries and stereotypes all along the way.  Start reading.  You won't put it down." - Naomi Wallace, playwright, screenwriter and MacArthur Fellow (aka the Genius Grant). 

• "I love sci-fi and I love hardboiled detective stories. This is both, but it's even more. Sci-fi has always been the best place to take on real world issues, and Joshua Todd James takes on a lot of those in SOME ANIMALS. In this book, he serves up a strong cocktail, shaken from Chandler and Asimov, leaving me with the impression that someone just punched me in the face with a new cut of BLADE RUNNER." - Yuri Lowenthal, actor MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN, NARUTO, BEN 10, RAVE MASTER, LEGION OF SUPERHEROES

• "Joshua Todd James is a beautiful writer whose compelling, intelligent, and evocative sci-fi brings to mind the work of Isaac Asimov and Andy Weir. SOME ANIMALS weaves a propulsive plot that keeps you turning the pages with the themes that make for our finest speculative fiction—among them, what it means to be human. This exciting story is not one to be missed!" - Martin Aguilera, author and screenwriter, Netflix's THE CRAVING.

• "SOME ANIMALS is an intriguing exploration of a future that is moving, tense and which reflects back, heartbreakingly so, on our present-day society." - Dwayne Alexander Smith, bestselling author of FORTY ACRES and THE UNKIND HOURS. 

• "SOME ANIMALS is a sci-fi novella that had me smiling throughout. It's fun. It's smart. It's thought-provoking, and most of all it's entertaining as all get out!"~Bill Rodemeyer, co-author of the novels Juvenile X, Suckerfish City and Twilight Pulp-Short Reads for Twisted Minds

• "The Fugitive meets Blade Runner, SOME ANIMALS is a fast paced near-future Science Fiction thriller about an android "companion" accused of his human's murder and goes on the run and it really delivers." - William C. Martell, screenwriter (19 produced films thus far, and still counting) and author of the hugely popular Blue Book series on screenwriting.