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The creator of TRVE CVLT is back with another Tenebrous joint, and appropriately enough it's another big swerve outside of our "usual" lane...whatever the hell that means anymore:)

When we think of cyberpunk or noir, we typically picture those twin coastal behemoths, New York and Los Angeles. Well, author Michael Bettendorf is here to dash those tropes to pieces as he embraces his inner Philip K. Dick.

Welcome to Nebraska of the near future...

A burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead—the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. It has her memories. It has her personality. But is it…Elsie? 

Welcome to the frayed-wire-and-spare-parts autopsy of a near-future Nebraska, lit bright by neon promises and smoldering with broken dreams. Society is high on body augmentations and self-interest, and low on moral reckonings.

Harlan's cold case takes center stage in the novella Our Bird Trills Mechanical, but desperate people willing to do whatever it takes fill the pages: people like Lucian Lucky, an augment-addicted prizefighter who must decide if the cost of winning is worth the size of the purse; or Javier, a love-struck henchman who’s fallen for the niece of his violent boss.

Freaks, fighters, fixers and f&%k-ups: fortune favors the corrupt in MIDWESTERN CHROME.

Read MIDWESTERN CHROME.

“Ingenious visions and deeply human characters…Does what the finest examples of dystopian Sci-Fi Noir do best: shows us ourselves in the reflection of a cohesive, all-too-plausible future. Highly recommended.”

• Sean Doolittle, author of Device Free Weekend

"An unmissable genre mashup that brings to mind the best of Philip K. Dick."

• Michael Moreci, screenwriter (Revealer, Revival) and comics author (Barbaric, Wasted Space)

“Rips like a blast of fuzzy future glam rock out of the speakers of a souped-up speed machine. Jack in, bliss out, rock on.”

• Drew Broussard, The Lit Hub Podcast

MIDWESTERN CHROME is out August 11, 2026. Please share your reviews on Goodreads, Amazon (links coming soon), your own personal blogs, websites and social media, and anywhere else you review books at! 

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Read MIDWESTERN CHROME.

***A NOTE CONCERNING FUTURE TENEBROUS ARCs***

If you hadn't heard, we recently signed a distribution deal with Independent Publishers Group! Technically, it begins June 1st; ALICIA IS IN THE BASEMENT is actually our first title under the new agreement.

This new deal should not affect digital ARCs in any way; we should retain full control over distributing advance digital copies as we see fit, such as via this newsletter.

As for the limited print ARCs we currently send out, we're unsure how that will work under the new arrangement, so for the time being it's best we don't make any promises. But we'll let you know more when we do!

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Matt + Alex