Jonathan R. Miller's Blog: Author Jonathan R. Miller
June 6, 2025
New novel - Animal Control (June 18, 2025)
ANIMAL CONTROL
I'm happy to announce that I have a new novel coming out called Animal Control on June 18. If anyone reading this would like access to an ARC, please reach out and I will send you a link!
Here is the description:
What lives in her now doesn’t sleep.
A young woman in California inherits a power that begins in the body and echoes out to the edges of the world. It isn’t explained and doesn’t come with rules. It gathers underneath the skin, waiting for direction.
As she begins to understand what the power can touch, rearrange, and dismantle, her decisions grow heavier. The results, stranger. Two friends join her—one driven, one deliberate—and the movement that forms between them gathers momentum until it starts to shift the balance between what is and what could be. Together they learn that transformation isn’t an event. It is a state. And not every becoming is safe.
Animal Control is a literary novel of restraint and reach, exploring how power circulates through the living world. How it settles and disturbs, seduces and transforms. In sparse, electric prose, the novel explores the ethics of influence, the sources of allegiance, the cost of reshaping communities, and the boundaries between care and control, persuasion and responsibility. It tells a story of instinct, intent, and a future taking shape before the world is ready. And of a young woman who must decide what she is willing to change, and what she is willing to become.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Jonathan R. Miller
I'm happy to announce that I have a new novel coming out called Animal Control on June 18. If anyone reading this would like access to an ARC, please reach out and I will send you a link!
"The protagonist's story feels light-years from the typical hero's journey, consistently focusing on more existential themes—and the result is something unusually unsettling and unforgettable. A strange, inventive tale that evolves into a challenging and rewarding odyssey." - Kirkus Reviews
Here is the description:
What lives in her now doesn’t sleep.
A young woman in California inherits a power that begins in the body and echoes out to the edges of the world. It isn’t explained and doesn’t come with rules. It gathers underneath the skin, waiting for direction.
As she begins to understand what the power can touch, rearrange, and dismantle, her decisions grow heavier. The results, stranger. Two friends join her—one driven, one deliberate—and the movement that forms between them gathers momentum until it starts to shift the balance between what is and what could be. Together they learn that transformation isn’t an event. It is a state. And not every becoming is safe.
Animal Control is a literary novel of restraint and reach, exploring how power circulates through the living world. How it settles and disturbs, seduces and transforms. In sparse, electric prose, the novel explores the ethics of influence, the sources of allegiance, the cost of reshaping communities, and the boundaries between care and control, persuasion and responsibility. It tells a story of instinct, intent, and a future taking shape before the world is ready. And of a young woman who must decide what she is willing to change, and what she is willing to become.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Jonathan R. Miller
Author Jonathan R. Miller
"Though his books are labeled literary thrillers,
Miller is most concerned with his characters,
who struggle with issues of discrimination, identity,
ideological rigidity, and belonging."
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Miller is most concerned with his characters,
who struggle with issues of discrimination, identity,
ideological rigidity, and belonging."
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