Author: Nathan Shumate

The Shadow Over Vinland sample: “The Octopus Man”

The Octopus Man comes most every night and I don’t like him. He breathes funny and sometimes he talks but it’s not words that I know but sometimes I understand him anyway. I’m almost nine and Mom says I shouldn’t have nightmares so much and if I do I shouldn’t wake up her and Dad,…
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Available for pre-order: The Shadow Over Vinland

Now available for pre-order, with a release on June 15th: The Shadow Over Vinland: and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Ten new tales of cosmic horror! Grab yours now!

It’s finally here! THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRAP, 2nd Edition!

Now complete with plentiful full-color posters and VHS covers plus an exhaustive index, the 2nd edition of The Golden Age of Crap takes you back to those heady video rental days!   Available on Amazon!

THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRAP: 2nd Edition!

Now with plenty of full-color VHS and poster art, plus an exhaustive index!

Coming soon to a video rental store near you…

Probably not the absolutely final cover, but definitely close:

Not only is the book “long-awaited,” the announcement is tardy!

Pioneering the new trend of “stealth launches” (don’t worry if you haven’t heard about them, that’s the point), Cold Fusion Media published the third CheapCaffeine cartoon collection, The Rise and Fall of Senator Bear, back in December, and forgot to tell anyone! But calm your palpitating heart: It’s still available. (Whew!) In fact, you can…
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New publication: PENCIL PUSHING

This one’s kind of an experiment: A thirty-eight page book of my sketches, with a custom sketch by request on the last page — which means, obviously, that it can’t be sold through Amazon or other venues: it can only be had from me — either live at conventions and events, or directly through my…
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What the heck — we’ll extend the giveaway into March!

That’s right — now through the end of March, you can get a free ebook of Levels: Fantastic and Macabre Stories by Nathan Shumate! All you need to do is sign up for the Cold Fusion Media newsletter, a low-volume bulletin that only goes out when Cold Fusion Media publishes a new book!  In return,…
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All through February: Get a free LEVELS ebook!

From now until February 28th, you can get a free ebook of Levels: Fantastic and Macabre Stories by Nathan Shumate! All you need to do is sign up for the Cold Fusion Media newsletter, a low-volume bulletin that only goes out when Cold Fusion Media publishes a new book!  In return, you’ll get both MOBI…
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What does 2017 hold for Cold Fusion Media?

Projects on the horizon?  You betcha!  Here they are, in chronological order of future appearance (which is to say, in order of most to least likely to be released in 2017): — A second edition of The Golden Age of Crap in print and ebook, complete with multiple full-color reproductions of poster and video cover…
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