Project Salamander

by Nathan Shumate, Lance Conrad, J.C. Chambers

Stranded in Salt Lake City by bad weather, Attorney Owen Vail goes to sleep in the Airport Hilton.

He wakes up in a different room.

In a different city.

In a different body.

Swept up in the aftermath of a ruthless billionaire’s experiments, Owen and those like him—unwilling body-jumpers calling themselves “the dispossessed”—try to find a way back to their own lives, while also staying out of the hands of those who want to find out what makes them tick… from the inside.



Project Salamander was written by eleven authors in round-robin

Holli AndersonGraham BradleyD.L. CampanileJ.C. Chambers IIILance ConradJared GarrettC.H. LindsayCraig NyboNathan ShumateScott William TaylorDavid J. WestProject Salamander explores identity and connection in between arson and explosions.

All proceeds to support Writers Cantina, a Utah writing conference for SF, fantasy and horror.

149 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2023

About the author

Nathan Shumate is a Utah author, small-press publisher, assemblage artist and dilettante (although he prefers the term “Renaissance Man”). He has written (and gotten paid for) comic books, screenplays, and various forms of fiction and non-fiction. His short stories have appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories, the anthology Monsters & Mormons, and other venues. He is the publisher and instigator of the Lovecraftian pulp space opera Space Eldritch anthologies. His most recent book is The Shadow Over Vinland, and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, released June 2024. He also unleashed LousyBookCovers.com onto the world, and consults with self-publishing authors at CoverCritics.com about effective indie book cover design.