R E  Loten

I've blogged before about this series of books (https://www.reloten.com/post/back-to-the-beginning-part-2) and its author (https://www.reloten.com/post/writing-a-picture-how-the-themes-style-of-susan-cooper-and-kate-mosse-have-influenced-my-writing) so will endeavour not re-cover old ground in this post. Instead, I want to talk about a different aspect of this particular book. A number of years ago, I stumbled across something online that had the hashtag #thedarkisreading and

During this course I have written both short stories and longer fiction, so my reading has been a mixture of the two. However, the authors I am repeatedly drawn to are Susan Cooper and Kate Mosse. Although ‘your writing voice is not necessarily your reading voice,’ (Mosse in McCrum, 2014) in this instance, the books I’ve enjoyed reading are very similar to the ones I like writing. There are many aspects to admire in both authors – the way they create detailed descriptions in