Interview with historical romance author Darcy Burke

Today’s guest author is historical romance author Darcy Burke. We’re chatting about her new novel, Irresistible.

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Bio:
Darcy Burke is the USA Today Bestselling Author of sexy, emotional historical and contemporary romance. Darcy wrote her first book at age 11, a happily ever after about a swan addicted to magic and the female swan who loved him, with exceedingly poor illustrations. Click here to Join her Reader Club.

A native Oregonian, Darcy lives on the edge of wine country with her guitar-strumming husband, artist daughter, and imaginative son who will almost certainly out-write her one day (that may be tomorrow).

They’re a crazy cat family with two Bengal cats, a small, fame-seeking cat named after a fruit, an older rescue Maine Coon with attitude to spare, and a collection of neighbor cats who hang out on the deck and occasionally venture inside. You can find Darcy at a winery, in her comfy writing chair, or binge-watching TV with the family.

Her happy places are Disneyland, Labor Day weekend at the Gorge, Denmark, and anywhere in the UK—so long as her family is there too.

Welcome, Darcy. Please tell us about your latest release.
Irresistible is book six in the Phoenix Club series and is my first spy book! I actually tried writing a spy book years ago (one of many books I started but didn’t finish). It was inspired by the movie The Long Kiss Goodnight with a heroine spy with amnesia. Twenty plus years later, I am writing the spy (spies really) but still haven’t written amnesia. 😉 Oh, but let’s talk about THIS book, lol. Dougal is a spy facing what is probably his last mission after suddenly becoming his father’s heir, and Jessamine, who is excellent at breaking codes, is recruited to assist him—as his fake wife. Their assignment as a married couple is full of sexual tension and amusing shenanigans. Then they return to “real” life, and things sort of hit the fan. It’s great fun!

 

Excerpt from Irresistible:
“Have you ever given up on a cryptogram?”

“No.”

“And I imagine some of them weren’t easy.”

She exhaled. “No, they were not.”

“I assumed as much. I know you, Jess, and you’re tenacious.”

“We haven’t even known each other a fortnight,” she scoffed. “Not officially anyway.”

“What does that mean, ‘officially’?”

She took a generous drink of brandy. “We have met before. Four years ago. I remember it distinctly.”

“Four years ago?” Damn, now he felt terrible. “How can you be sure?”

She gave him a haughty look of certainty that quite frankly pricked his desire. “Because I am. You asked me to dance at the Edgemont Ball.”

He’d danced with her. Four years ago. And never again. Worse, he didn’t remember it. He was an absolute cad. “I should have remembered you. I can’t imagine why I didn’t.” he said softly.

Sentiment, which he preferred to indulge in small, manageable doses, threatened to send him to her chair, to take her hand and beg her forgiveness. A husband would do that. A lover. He was neither and since they were alone, there was no reason to continue the pretense. Only, he was fairly certain he was no longer pretending.

 

What part of the writing process do you dread?
Starting a book. The first third is always the hardest part for me.

Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?
Not really. Sometimes, I have a hard time figuring out what comes next, but it isn’t really block. It’s not being ready for the story because characters are still working things out.

Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?
No, I am so boring! When I was little, I used to pretend to be everybody: Princess Leia, one of Charlie’s Angels, one of the waitresses on It’s a Living (old TV show), just about anyone from the late 1970s/early 1980s movies or TV.

What did you do on your last birthday?
Celebrated with my family and Mr. Burke took me out to a fancy dinner.

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