Darcy Burke
@darcyburkeauthor.bsky.social
Mom to 2 amazing humans and 7 rescue cats, historical mystery & romance author, history nerd.
🙋🏻♀️ I am still shocked that I got a high back when I was running. (I started at 40 and ran three half marathons over a couple years.) I still looking longingly at runners, but I don’t run much anymore.
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
🙋🏻♀️ I am still shocked that I got a high back when I was running. (I started at 40 and ran three half marathons over a couple years.) I still looking longingly at runners, but I don’t run much anymore.
I’m in Oregon and Providence is charging such high rates that many doctors I know can’t afford to do business with them anymore. This will also hurt people.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I’m in Oregon and Providence is charging such high rates that many doctors I know can’t afford to do business with them anymore. This will also hurt people.
What time and where are you coming from? I live in that area. Fridays are a real crapshoot unfortunately! If you come from SeaTac, area, just get outta dodge before rush hour and try to get through Vancouver by 2-3 if you can!
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
What time and where are you coming from? I live in that area. Fridays are a real crapshoot unfortunately! If you come from SeaTac, area, just get outta dodge before rush hour and try to get through Vancouver by 2-3 if you can!
This sounds exactly like something my older brother and I would do. Love it!
November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This sounds exactly like something my older brother and I would do. Love it!
Great show! I am watching Slow Horses. Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are amazing.
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Great show! I am watching Slow Horses. Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas are amazing.
Absolute travesty!
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Absolute travesty!
Argh!!! I am so sorry.
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Argh!!! I am so sorry.
Right? That used to be one month (or two) of releases!
October 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Right? That used to be one month (or two) of releases!
Agreed. But this time feels different (to me) because of the mass exodus at Avon. Even through the “dead” periods, they kept going strong. I still have a decent fan base (less than it was even 5 years ago) but it’s super hard to grow.
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Agreed. But this time feels different (to me) because of the mass exodus at Avon. Even through the “dead” periods, they kept going strong. I still have a decent fan base (less than it was even 5 years ago) but it’s super hard to grow.
When I looked at also-boughts for Bridgerton when it first came out, they weren’t histrom books but other books made into TV and movies. The people watching the show aren’t all book readers (by a lot, I’d say) and if they are, they read the book version of what they enjoyed on the screen.
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When I looked at also-boughts for Bridgerton when it first came out, they weren’t histrom books but other books made into TV and movies. The people watching the show aren’t all book readers (by a lot, I’d say) and if they are, they read the book version of what they enjoyed on the screen.
I think it’s more was than is at this point. Can’t think of many big names publishing histrom there at the moment. Eloisa left, JQ doesn’t write new, and Sarah Maclean is writing contemporary. Megan Frampton and Lorraine Heath?
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I think it’s more was than is at this point. Can’t think of many big names publishing histrom there at the moment. Eloisa left, JQ doesn’t write new, and Sarah Maclean is writing contemporary. Megan Frampton and Lorraine Heath?
I’ve pivoted to historical mysteries and am doing well after more than a decade of indie histrom success. I am really enjoying the change actually!
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’ve pivoted to historical mysteries and am doing well after more than a decade of indie histrom success. I am really enjoying the change actually!
But are fewer people buying them because that was a natural trend, or did NY cause this by choosing not to publish histrom because it’s not a booktok rage? My sales started to decrease with trad pub’s pivot to illustrated covers and when Avon cleared out most
of their histrom authors.
of their histrom authors.
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
But are fewer people buying them because that was a natural trend, or did NY cause this by choosing not to publish histrom because it’s not a booktok rage? My sales started to decrease with trad pub’s pivot to illustrated covers and when Avon cleared out most
of their histrom authors.
of their histrom authors.
Thank you! Keep at it. 🐸
October 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Thank you! Keep at it. 🐸
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
OMG! I was just going to share this FANTASTIC book because Portland needs some love here too! It’s pretty terrifying to see our government bald-faced LYING about what’s happening here. This “crisis” is entirely manufactured and the danger is them. I am worried for my home town. 😟
October 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
OMG! I was just going to share this FANTASTIC book because Portland needs some love here too! It’s pretty terrifying to see our government bald-faced LYING about what’s happening here. This “crisis” is entirely manufactured and the danger is them. I am worried for my home town. 😟
Absolutely. My brother found our long-lost cousins in Denmark. We’d lost touch 15 or so years earlier after their mother/our aunt died. Her brother/our father had died several years earlier. Then we met one of them on a television show about her life. True story! Love my cousins. ❤️
October 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Absolutely. My brother found our long-lost cousins in Denmark. We’d lost touch 15 or so years earlier after their mother/our aunt died. Her brother/our father had died several years earlier. Then we met one of them on a television show about her life. True story! Love my cousins. ❤️
They’ve got pop-up tents on the roof like they’re having a tailgate. 🙄 You can see it from the freeway.
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
They’ve got pop-up tents on the roof like they’re having a tailgate. 🙄 You can see it from the freeway.
My current view from Chipotle at Portland State University. ICE is a couple miles from here. Beautiful day in downtown!
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
My current view from Chipotle at Portland State University. ICE is a couple miles from here. Beautiful day in downtown!
That would be lovely! The smell was nice with one or two flowers blooming. When there were five or six, it could be overpowering.
October 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
That would be lovely! The smell was nice with one or two flowers blooming. When there were five or six, it could be overpowering.
Came here to say this. I met her 20 some years ago. She is not a leftie, lol. (She is really nice!)
October 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Came here to say this. I met her 20 some years ago. She is not a leftie, lol. (She is really nice!)