Well it was a blast to write! These sisters as kids were side characters in my YA novel, and I've been thinking about giving the grown versions of them a standalone book for years

Lavie and I both write novellas that fall under the category of "a bit much"

Cover of The Porcelain Sisters by Daryl Gregory: A close-up of a procelain doll, showing one green glass eye, red lips, and a white face riddled with cracks.

Cover reveal! My novella THE PORCELAIN SISTERS will be out Oct 27 from @tachyonpub.bsky.social . Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, take on a French witch mafia, demons, an unkillable assassin... all to reclaim their birthright. Preorder! tachyonpublications.com/product/the-...

This book kicks ass and takes names. I'm going to be in conversation with @lauracranehill.bsky.social when she visits Seattle next month -- May 20, Third Place Books Ravenna. Be there!

Headline: Acting ICE director Says he plans to resign in May. Todd Lyons said he would leave to spend more time with his family.

“To be separated from your family, it’s just inhuman,” said Lyons.

Right dere

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

Reposting because I misspelled my own damn novel title:

I'm thrilled that WHEN WE WERE REAL--yeah, that's it--is a Locus Awards Finalist, alongside so many great books and stories. And there are awards for editors! and artists! and publishers! Love the people in this field

Excerpt from Colson Whitehead in NTY: “Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything” nowadays, a.k.a. vibe-living, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square to prevent contagion, and then A.I. should resurrect you virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity. Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like. Except art. If you use it for your art, you’re a freakin’ hack.

Colson Whitehead hilariously killing it in the NYT today. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Exactly right, Andrew. Award noms are nice, but keep doing the things you control

Back atcha! We're all amazing

TFW you misspell your own novel title...

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

Hey! Very happy to see WHEN WERE WERE REAL on the Locus Awards Finalist list, along with many pals, other Saga authors, and SagaPals like @matociquala.bsky.social and @stephengrahamjones.com Thanks, readers of @locusmag.bsky.social

Granny always said, Don’t look into your coffee cup when you’re brushing your teeth.

Wish I’d listened to her more

Watercolor illustration in a realistic style of a girl tucked under an old fashioned quilt. Her hands on top of the quilt are wrapped in bandages showing stigmata-like stains. She gazes upward in a saintly expression. Below/behind her is a landscape of blue ridge mountains, clouds, and trillium flowers in psychedelic saturated color.

More illustration reveal for the @midworldpress.bsky.social edition of Revelator by Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social

So glad you dug it, Aimee!

You Always Want to Bomb the Middle East

The catchy apocalyptic song in my head right now....

I really thought you’d be surprised by the dog and the bear learning to talk

Headline: ‘Our little savior’: partly blind New Mexico dog hales for warding off bear

“I warded off a what??” says dog.

Happy #TransDayofVisibility! Trans people are my people. And trans kids? Those are my kids

book cover with cartoonish highway on pink landscape and pink sky, with sheep and clouds

#FundraiserPerk Receive a signed copy of #DarylGregory's WHEN WE WERE REAL as a thank you gift for your donation, plus the April Locus E-Issue and digital art by designer Francesca Myman.

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I feel sorry for that guard who got fired from the Louvre, then finally got a new job at the Kit Kat warehouse

Me: “Medium sized Americano?”

Barista: “Yeah buddy we know”

Rules are rules Lavie

That is terrible and I approve

There are 50 ways to mangle my name but favorite happened at a hip coffee shop. Barista asked for my name and I said D as in dog, A. R. Y. L. And when order was ready they called out for “Deeazindog? Deeazindog!”

I will use that name at my first poetry slam

“Darly” is the most frequent misspelling of my name

I'd like to remind everyone that my novel When We Were Real is eligible for the 20th Annual Daryl Awards--books written by a Daryl, as voted on by my mother and sisters. Yes, every year Derryl Murphy ( @derrylm.bsky.social ) has won, but I'm hoping this is my year!

So glad you dug it!

Classic Polka Dot Man

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Vote online at poll.voting.locusmag... or via the link in our bio!