The Burning Chambers Series

What the Novelist Does Not Tell You

By Kate Mosse

January 19, 2021

It’s one of the oddest parts of being a novelist that your readers are more interested in what you do not tell them than what you do. Yes, the setting is delicious, the time-period intriguing, the action dynamic, the personalities gripping and surprising. You take a lot of trouble over your sentences and your paragraphs,…

Book Series Binge: Q&A with Kate Mosse on The Burning Chambers Series

By Crime HQ

April 9, 2020

Describe the first time you pictured Minou in your head. I saw a figure of a woman in the mist, in the shadow of the medieval city walls of Carcassonne, on a cold, winter’s night. I could see long brown hair beneath the hood of her cloak, cold hands carrying a basket, hurrying through cobbled…