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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And hey! This beauty came out today—one of the darkest stories I’ve ever written. My thanks to @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social for inviting me in

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PNW people! Save the date -- Oct 27 at Elliott Bay Books I'll be launching THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, my Halloweenish novella about two sisters, one of whom happens to be haunted doll, in convo w/ @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @tachyonpub.bsky.social www.elliottbaybook.com/events/64188...

Elliott Bay Bookstore announcement of October 27, 7pm, showing the cover of THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, as well as pics of the lovely Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror!) and the less lovely me, Daryl Gregory

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Look, I don’t want to be this way, but it’s physically impossible for me to open this variety of Klinker Brick and NOT wonder if there’s also a Hannah wine, and who is voicing it

Daryl holding a Klinker Brick Barbera wine

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn it, Curtis Chen got my books again. He's taking boxes of THE PORCELAIN SISTERS to #PNBA this weekend, which means I'll have to go there, yank them back, and hand them out to the people who deserve them -- the PNW's finest booksellers. See y'all Sunday night!

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day to all who labor! (Basically all y’all) Toasting you from Valhöll Brewing in Poulsbo, WA—Little Norway

Daryl raising a glass of Golden Warrior beer

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Look at these nice people intan into at the Worldcon bar. Old pal Trevor Quachri (editor of @analogsf.bsky.social) and new pal Theresa DeLucci (dir of marketing and publicity at Saga — @tdelucci.bsky.social )

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Oh and if you’re at Worldcon and want me to sign books — mine or others, I don’t care—hit me up Sunday 9am in autograph room or at the Tachyon/Fairwood table at 2pm that day

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On the ferry to Bremerton with @nameshiv.bsky.social — teaching at Cascades Writers Workshop this weekend!

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, is out Oct 27 2026--but you blogger/ booktok/ reviewer types can get it NOW. Two sisters, one of whom happens to be a haunted doll, go on the road to uncover family secrets. Is it horror-comedy or comedy-horror? You decide #horror @tachyonpub.bsky.social

Cover of my next novella, THE PORCELAIN SISTERS, above text saying that it's now available on Netgalley and Edeweiss

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Is it everything? I think it’s everything

Apple News Headline: Stephen Colbert replacement series will lack this one thing ’The Late Show’ is known for

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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-...

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.

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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

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

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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

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.

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

“I warded off a what??” says dog.

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

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Spotted in the wild by a friend at Elliott Bay Bookstore, one of my favorite hometown shops. Get the paperback version of When We Were Real before it loses at the Nebulas in June—and if it wins, think of the resale value!

Pic of When We Were Real on the New table at Elliott Bay Bookstore in Seattle

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

My pal @marktompkins is visiting and brought me an Aspen Writers Network Editing Kit— “Write without fear. Edit without mercy.”

Aspen Words leather editing survival kit, that says “Write without fear. Edit without mercy.”

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Wife just picked up Mr Banks. One thing they don’t tell you about dog sitters is that now your dog knows there are better owners out there, for example ones that don’t up and leave you with no explanation

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Hello Fellow Cheap Ass People! My latest novel WHEN WE WERE REAL is out in paperback on St. Paddy's Day, March 17. But you can preorder now from B&N for 25% off Dec. 30 thru January 1. I've been told that's only 75% of the usual price! Code: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-we-we...

Barnes and Noble now for 25% off upcoming books

The oh-so-beautiful cover of WHEN WE WERE REAL, featuring a road, a tunnel, fluffy sheep, and matching fluffy clouds

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Having a Manhattan in LA means I’m transcontinental, baby. At Honor Bar in Beverly Hills

Me drinking a Manhattan and it’s glorious

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Every morning I go into my office and take yesterday’s coffee cup to the top of the stairs so I’ll remember to carry it to the kitchen. This ritual is called DARING THE GRAVITY GODS. Someday they’ll punish me for my hubris. But this is not that day.

Coffee cup waiting at tip of stairs for the gods to knock it over

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Between today's writing sessions on the Novel In Progress*, saw this in the NYT Morning newsletter from Melissa Kirsch, writing about a novelist friend of hers, and thought, yeah, this is the whole game right here * get your girty mind off my acronym

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, who's coming to Worldcon this week? I'll be at these things. Stop by!

Daryl’s WorldCon 2025 Schedule

3-Part Craft Panel!
Fantasy Writing 201, 202, and 203
• Thur 3pm – We’re Going on an Adventure
(Rm 443-444)
All about beginnings

• Fri Noon – A Strong Bridge
(Rm 423-424)
The Mushy Middle

• Sat Noon – The Grand Finale
(Rm 443-444)
How to bring it home

Wed 6pm—Stronger Together (Rm 433-434)
Talking about managing big ensemble casts

Thur 10:30am—Autographs

Thur Noon—Techno-Fear (Rm 435-436)
How to get black hats and cyberwarfare into your fiction.

Fri 4:30—Hive Minds in Science and SF (Rm 435-436)
You get the idea… don’t you?

Sat 4:30—Reading from When We Were Real

Sun 1:30—Ready, Steady, Flash!
A game show where write flash to prompts,
and you vote on the winner!

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We are being lied to. Wake up, sheeple. That goofy cursive and those hyphens offer no cover, Thomas

Thomas English muffins package with “Easy to Split” on the front. This is a LIE

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

About a thousand people gathered in my little neighborhood , including @jackskill.bsky.social and Nancy Kress. Nancy’s sign deployed killer punctuation

Daryl holding a sign that says Small Hands = Small Dictator

Jack Skillingstead holding a sign that says No Kings, and Nancy Kress holding one that says “Stop Trump! Stop, Trump”

Jack Skillingstead offering his sign to the next protestor on the way to No Kings— the Tin Man of Oz

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

This is the moment I keep laughing about. When your bf finally gives you a key but they’re already changing the locks

Melon Husk receiving golden key from Trobul Dump

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

My job this weekend—sign these beautiful sig sheets for the illustrated version of REVELATOR, art by the great @joannabarnum.com soon from @midworldpress.bsky.social !

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Fabulous night at P&T Knitwear (you heard me) with @debbieurbanski.bsky.social And then drinks after with so many great people!

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

NYC people -- on THURSDAY night I'll be reading with Debbie Urbanski, a @sagapressbooks.bsky.social double header! www.eventbrite.com/e/real-porta...

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Kudos to NYT for using the Carmen Sandiego shot

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A more direct link to the P&T Knitwear event:

The covers of WHEN WE WERE REAL and PORTALMANIA, with pictures of Daryl Gregory and Debbie Urbanski and event info. Thursday, May 15th, 6:30pm Generatl Admission $5 (redeemable as credit towards book purchase)

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Always nice when a story shows up speaking a new language, looking spiffy. Here’s “I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe.” In French in @lebelial.bsky.social BIFROST and in Chinese in SCIENCE FICTION WORLD. Those illos!

Covers of BIFROST and SCIENCE FICTION WORLD

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Happy Indie Bookstore Day! Paper Boat Booksellers is a lovely and lively shop just blocks from my house. Great vibe and supportive of local writers, as you can see!

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

About to run a session for the Norwescon Writers Workshop and it’s a little alarming to have this huge guy looming outside the window, hiding behind some piney friends, judging us

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My copy of Locus came in the mail—hello there you gorgeous neon sheep! Thanks to Fran Myman for the illo and Liza Trombi for the interview and Tim/Melody Pratt for the editing— basically the whole team at @locusmag.bsky.social

Locus magazine cover with illustration of a neon sheep with clouds and advertising interview with me, which is very cool all around

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Always nice to walk into a store and have your book waiting for you. Here at Third Place Books (the big one) ready to hang with @mickmatthew.bsky.social !

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Spotted by my daughter— this professor may work in Minnesota but we know where her heart lives

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

What a great night! My thanks to everyone who came out Sf in Sf, and to @sfinsfevents.bsky.social for hosting me and @nghivo.bsky.social The dinner after was also a blast

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Come out to Third Place Books Lake Forest Park on tax day! I’ll be in conversation with the great Matt Sullivan @mickmatthew.bsky.social celebrating the launch of MIDNIGHT IN SOAP LAKE which is fricking brilliant.

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My job today -- get ready to read to librarians. The Washington Library Association Book Bash is tomorrow and I can't wait because damn it, these people are Heroes of the Revolution

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Goodbye, Portland! I’ll always treasure our time time together. And just look at that beautiful Union Station ceiling

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