Materials and contributions by rec.arts.books.hist-fiction readers and historical fiction lovers

• Pre-Historic Fiction List by Kathy Hoover.
• Larry Besaw's Historical Fiction Reading List. Now, available by author.
• Sherlock Holmes Pastiches List by Joe O'Connor.
• Rafael Sabatini Check List. Jesse F. Knight has updated this list. Now it has a list of uncollected short stories in addition to the complete list of Sabatini's works.
• Baroness Orczy List.
• Wars of the Roses Fiction List Updated from Ricardian Fiction List (Richard III). Compiled by Carol Mitchell. See also Ricardian Fiction page, by the Richard III Society.
• Alexandre Dumas List.
• C.S. Forester's Hornblower List. I have read them all!
• Historical Mystery Bibliography by Dean James. It has an extensive list of historical mysteries.

History and Story

• A Brief History of Historical Fiction By Sarah Johnson
• Project: The German Historical Novel, with a database
• Love and Merit in the Maritime Historical Novel: Cooper and Scott an essay by James Crane
• Reading and Writing Historical Fiction by Sue Peabody
• Return of the Roman an essay by Alan Massie. "Knowledge of Latin may be in decline, but novels, films and documentaries about the Romans have never been more popular. We are still dimly, unconsciously, aware that our culture grew out of classical civilisation."
• On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays a book by A.S. Byatt
• Discourse on Historical Fiction. What is historical fiction? What is the relationship between history and fiction? This is a bibliography compiled by Boris Raymond.
• Virtual Conference on Historical Fiction at SUNY at Albany History Department. This is an electronic conference of historians who also write fiction, entitled "Writing History, Writing Fiction." Readers can also participate in the discussion.

Non-Fictional Historical Research

• Tennnessee Tech's History department has a collection of history sites on the net. From there, you can link to most sites related to historical research.
• Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, an excellent source of information and articles.
• Online History Sites. This is Infoseek's subject page on history. It covers most online sites, grouped by country, time period, and subjects.
• History and Folklore Links at Writing World.
• What could you do with $100 in 1850? To find out historical value of money, try this site: Current Value of Old Money.
• The Victorian Web. If you are dealing with the 19th c. Victorian era, visit this site.
• For Roman history, see above "The Ancient Rome."
• Civil War Interactive
• A Boke of Gode Cookery. A site about Medieval cookery and recipes, along with a lot of info and links for plants and other Medieval things.
• Ancient World Web. Includes a master list of links, sorted by place and subject, with search.
• Classics Web Sites. A selective list of sites related to classics, including Latin and Greek literature.

Resources for Writers

• Researching and Writing Historical Fiction Resources by Cindy Vallar
• Seven Rules for Writing Historical Fiction By Elizabeth Crook
• Manuscript Editing - Serving writers, agents, and publishers since 1976.
• Writing World: World of Writing Tips for Writers has an extensive list of articles and links for writers. Includes materials formerly housed at Inkspot. Maintained by Moira Allen.
• Poets & Writers Online. Check its Literary Links and References and Guides where you will find dictionary, thesaurus, style guides, etc.

E-Publishing and On-Demand Printing

• e-publishing links from The Buffalo Free Net. Hard Shell Word Factory is an example of e-publishing companies.
• For on-demand printing and publishing, I have used Lightning Source which is a unit run by Ingram. The good thing is that your on-demand print titles are included in Ingram's catalogs. Ingram becomes your distributor, and you get wholesaler compensation from Ingram on the books you market. First step is to become a publisher, by getting an ISBN publisher prefix from the official U.S. ISBN Agency (R.R. Bowker). You will get 10 ISBN numbers to use.