Michael Bettendorf
@beardedbetts.bsky.social
Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
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Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito slut.
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Find my experimental black metal horror gamebook published by @tenebrouspress.bsky.social as well as my other links here:
linktr.ee/BeardedBetts
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Lots of things are horrendous right now, but I'm grateful for the book mail @cjsubko.bsky.social @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social
This anthology rules!
This anthology rules!
January 29, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Lots of things are horrendous right now, but I'm grateful for the book mail @cjsubko.bsky.social @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social
This anthology rules!
This anthology rules!
Very cool news!
Very cool book!
Very cool author!
Congratulations, dude! Love seeing a well-deserving bud get some Cummie action.
Very cool book!
Very cool author!
Congratulations, dude! Love seeing a well-deserving bud get some Cummie action.
Thrilled to say FEEDING THE WHEEL has earned a Cummie Award for the "novels are too long" novella category. I say this without hyperbole; this is the height of my writing career. Extremely honored and grateful. I am going to turn my vagina statuette into a rapper chain and wear it to formal events
January 28, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Very cool news!
Very cool book!
Very cool author!
Congratulations, dude! Love seeing a well-deserving bud get some Cummie action.
Very cool book!
Very cool author!
Congratulations, dude! Love seeing a well-deserving bud get some Cummie action.
As someone who switches between long-form and short-form, I like this a lot.
Today, I give some advice on regaining motivation for short fiction after spending time with long.
Please send me your own questions!
My forever disclaimer: I have no real expertise, but I like to meddle and argue and express contrarian opinions.
Please send me your own questions!
My forever disclaimer: I have no real expertise, but I like to meddle and argue and express contrarian opinions.
Dear Ivy: Writing Advice
a return to short fiction
ivygrimes.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 3:12 PM
As someone who switches between long-form and short-form, I like this a lot.
Reposted by Michael Bettendorf
With pleasure, let me point you towards The Night Ship by @alexwoodroe.com and from Flame Tree Press. This one will linger with you.
Read review on my blog: bit.ly/Blog_TheNightShip
Read review on Goodreads: bit.ly/Goodreads_TheNightShip
Read review on StoryGraph: bit.ly/StoryGragh_TheNightShip
Read review on my blog: bit.ly/Blog_TheNightShip
Read review on Goodreads: bit.ly/Goodreads_TheNightShip
Read review on StoryGraph: bit.ly/StoryGragh_TheNightShip
January 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM
With pleasure, let me point you towards The Night Ship by @alexwoodroe.com and from Flame Tree Press. This one will linger with you.
Read review on my blog: bit.ly/Blog_TheNightShip
Read review on Goodreads: bit.ly/Goodreads_TheNightShip
Read review on StoryGraph: bit.ly/StoryGragh_TheNightShip
Read review on my blog: bit.ly/Blog_TheNightShip
Read review on Goodreads: bit.ly/Goodreads_TheNightShip
Read review on StoryGraph: bit.ly/StoryGragh_TheNightShip
Yooo some sweet rarities listed here. Perhaps something you'd nerds would dig?
trying to save up some $$$ for stuff I can't talk about right now, so last night I went thru most of my rare books and listed them on ebay, if anyone was interested! (will probably do the same for movies at a later date.) browse here: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...
January 22, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Yooo some sweet rarities listed here. Perhaps something you'd nerds would dig?
I've got the menu music from Rush 2 on N64 stuck in my head.
January 22, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I've got the menu music from Rush 2 on N64 stuck in my head.
Look.
It's okay if you can't concentrate on anything, let alone writing or anything creative, right now. Look around.
Figure I need this pep talk, and maybe you might too.
It's okay if you can't concentrate on anything, let alone writing or anything creative, right now. Look around.
Figure I need this pep talk, and maybe you might too.
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Look.
It's okay if you can't concentrate on anything, let alone writing or anything creative, right now. Look around.
Figure I need this pep talk, and maybe you might too.
It's okay if you can't concentrate on anything, let alone writing or anything creative, right now. Look around.
Figure I need this pep talk, and maybe you might too.
Reposted by Michael Bettendorf
idk who needs to hear this but you can be nice for no reason
January 21, 2026 at 4:24 PM
idk who needs to hear this but you can be nice for no reason
Alex's new book releases *today*! Stick out your thumb & hitch a ride on The Night Ship and get ready for a strange and eerie ride.
Feast your ears on Transmission zero, and welcome The Night Ship into the world!
Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
Released today wherever you can grab it, and ready to be just about the strangest journey into the vast of night you'll ever go through.
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
January 20, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Alex's new book releases *today*! Stick out your thumb & hitch a ride on The Night Ship and get ready for a strange and eerie ride.
Reposted by Michael Bettendorf
And Volume Eight—CURSED PLACES—arrives this April🖤☠️
@sonorataylor.bsky.social
@matthewtpritt.bsky.social
@sonorataylor.bsky.social
@matthewtpritt.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
And Volume Eight—CURSED PLACES—arrives this April🖤☠️
@sonorataylor.bsky.social
@matthewtpritt.bsky.social
@sonorataylor.bsky.social
@matthewtpritt.bsky.social
5 things in Midwestern Chrome
-A head in a bag
-A body-augment addicted prizefighter
-Everything is exploitative, even the vending machines
-Henchman falling for his boss's niece (age appropriate, not fucking creepy)
-Commonfolk raging against the machine
Anything else @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ?
-A head in a bag
-A body-augment addicted prizefighter
-Everything is exploitative, even the vending machines
-Henchman falling for his boss's niece (age appropriate, not fucking creepy)
-Commonfolk raging against the machine
Anything else @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ?
What are five things in your upcoming release?
- Family values
- Murder
- Weird gay sex
- A perky Goth making friends wherever she goes
- The worst person you have ever met (multiple)
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- Family values
- Murder
- Weird gay sex
- A perky Goth making friends wherever she goes
- The worst person you have ever met (multiple)
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What are five things in your upcoming release?
(THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS edition)
- Collapse of society
- Queers saying I told you so, why does no one listen to us
- Doomsday cults
- Angry lesbians who hate everyone else but get mushy for each other
- Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
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(THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS edition)
- Collapse of society
- Queers saying I told you so, why does no one listen to us
- Doomsday cults
- Angry lesbians who hate everyone else but get mushy for each other
- Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me
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January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
5 things in Midwestern Chrome
-A head in a bag
-A body-augment addicted prizefighter
-Everything is exploitative, even the vending machines
-Henchman falling for his boss's niece (age appropriate, not fucking creepy)
-Commonfolk raging against the machine
Anything else @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ?
-A head in a bag
-A body-augment addicted prizefighter
-Everything is exploitative, even the vending machines
-Henchman falling for his boss's niece (age appropriate, not fucking creepy)
-Commonfolk raging against the machine
Anything else @tenebrouspress.bsky.social ?
To all the squirrels stashing full slices of bread in our perennials, I'm so sorry my dog has been finding them. But also, if she ends up getting the shits/giardia bc of you, I'll quit giving you the headstart when I let her outside.
January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
To all the squirrels stashing full slices of bread in our perennials, I'm so sorry my dog has been finding them. But also, if she ends up getting the shits/giardia bc of you, I'll quit giving you the headstart when I let her outside.
Didn't write a lot, but I wrote some, which seems like a miracle right now. I even like the concept. How neat.
January 16, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Didn't write a lot, but I wrote some, which seems like a miracle right now. I even like the concept. How neat.
What's cool is for every name I recognize, there are 3-5 I don't. There is so much weird fiction out there. Truly a feast for readers of Weird horror. 💀🤘❤️🔥
Congratulations to the short listers!
Congratulations to the short listers!
🔥💀Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More Vol 4💀🔥
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Congrats to everyone on this list: you're officially a BNW-nominated author! And thank you to the hundreds who submitted, as always this was excruciating to narrow down.
Weird is strong🖤☠️
tinyurl.com/yc6t5fj8
Announcing the Shortlist for BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror + More, Vol. 4 — tenebrous press
tinyurl.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
What's cool is for every name I recognize, there are 3-5 I don't. There is so much weird fiction out there. Truly a feast for readers of Weird horror. 💀🤘❤️🔥
Congratulations to the short listers!
Congratulations to the short listers!
Heeeell yeah @kojiadae.bsky.social! Well earned!
2026 PHILIP K. DICK AWARD NOMINEE!
Hails & Congratulations, @kojiadae.bsky.social for your prescient, terrifying, shockingly relevant novel CASUAL.
A sincere Hails to all fellow nominees as well; CASUAL looks awfully fine rubbing shoulders with the lot of you🖤☠️
Hails & Congratulations, @kojiadae.bsky.social for your prescient, terrifying, shockingly relevant novel CASUAL.
A sincere Hails to all fellow nominees as well; CASUAL looks awfully fine rubbing shoulders with the lot of you🖤☠️
January 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Heeeell yeah @kojiadae.bsky.social! Well earned!
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2026 looks Weird & Wild. And we still have a couple covers to reveal!
Preorders for @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK & @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, as well as Book Club subscriptions, are open now:
store.tenebrouspress.com
Preorders for @kristalstittle.bsky.social's KAYAK & @endwellian.bsky.social's OLYOKE, as well as Book Club subscriptions, are open now:
store.tenebrouspress.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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This is a really cool worldbuilding resource. It's in-depth and takes an authentic approach with realistic solutions in mind. Definitely worth checking out, particularly if you write within the genre.
I'm very excited to share that I've been working with the slrpnk.net/c/writing mods to set up a collection of resources and notes to make writing solarpunk easier:
wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start
#solarpunk #writing #fiction #sciencefiction
wiki.slrpnk.net/writing:start
#solarpunk #writing #fiction #sciencefiction
writing:start [SLRPNK]
wiki.slrpnk.net
January 13, 2026 at 2:40 PM
This is a really cool worldbuilding resource. It's in-depth and takes an authentic approach with realistic solutions in mind. Definitely worth checking out, particularly if you write within the genre.
We're still a year off, but I can't wait for y'all to get your hands on this. It hits some very particular spots that I think are going to resonate so, so loudly.
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Once in awhile very important literature crosses your path and you must look in the mirror and ask: am I going to publish a book about a guy who shits snakes? Yes I am. Yes I am. Very excited for @beardedbetts.bsky.social wtf bizarro body horror novel to come out Jan 2027. 🐍 💩 🧑⚕️
January 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
We're still a year off, but I can't wait for y'all to get your hands on this. It hits some very particular spots that I think are going to resonate so, so loudly.
🤎🤘🐍
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Found a neato Octavia Butler collection while browsing a used bookstore today. Always thrilled when a nice surprise jumps off the shelf.
January 10, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Found a neato Octavia Butler collection while browsing a used bookstore today. Always thrilled when a nice surprise jumps off the shelf.
Heavy discord users, here's a chance to speak out against incorporating AI features.
Need I say more?
January 10, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Heavy discord users, here's a chance to speak out against incorporating AI features.
Alex's latest release, The Night Ship, is only two weeks away!
Look at how lovely this thing is!
Look at how lovely this thing is!
Hi hey my new book comes out on Jan 20, and she's real pretty, and there's a giveaway of ten of these shiny sprayed hardcovers on GR, otherwise you can ask your local bookstore for one and that would mean the world to me!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ni...
January 7, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Alex's latest release, The Night Ship, is only two weeks away!
Look at how lovely this thing is!
Look at how lovely this thing is!
Daaamn, this rips! It's so cool to see readers select the weird stuff. The stuff that's off the beaten path.
💀💜🤘
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Have we told you lately just how badass @wordhorde.bsky.social & their namesake brick & mortar @wordhorde-emporium.bsky.social are?
We are eternally grateful for everyone who bets on us.
Bookstores, we’re tellin ya: put us on your shelves, & we will sell🖤☠️
We are eternally grateful for everyone who bets on us.
Bookstores, we’re tellin ya: put us on your shelves, & we will sell🖤☠️
January 7, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Daaamn, this rips! It's so cool to see readers select the weird stuff. The stuff that's off the beaten path.
💀💜🤘
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Scuzz noir coming your way summer 2026.
January 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Scuzz noir coming your way summer 2026.
Saw some more preliminary interior artwork for Midwestern Chrome and it rips
💙 🦾 🚬 👊🏻
Out this summer with the one and only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
💙 🦾 🚬 👊🏻
Out this summer with the one and only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
January 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Saw some more preliminary interior artwork for Midwestern Chrome and it rips
💙 🦾 🚬 👊🏻
Out this summer with the one and only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
💙 🦾 🚬 👊🏻
Out this summer with the one and only @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
NIGHT SHIP MONTH!
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Welcome to Night Ship month, let's turn the engines over 😁
In case you missed it (which includes pretty much everyone tbh 😆) my review of @alexwoodroe.com's The Night Ship is on my lonely little website.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
January 1, 2026 at 8:31 PM
NIGHT SHIP MONTH!
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