Specialised Historical Fiction Editor

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• The History Quill

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Book Creators

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• Cover Illustrator: Vera Adxer Art — Facebook — Twitter 

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• Interior Book Formatting & Design — Nicole Scarano

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Tools for Building an Author Platform

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• Unpublished Writers and Websites: Should You Have One and What Should It Say? — Jane Friedman

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• Epic Facebook Author Pages: Everything You Need to Know — Shayla Raquel

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• How to Start Blogging: A Definitive Guide for Authors — Jane Friedman

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• 20 Email Tips & Tricks for Author Newsletters — Shayla Raquel

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• FOLLOWING: A Marketing Guide To Author Platform — David Gaughran

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• Twitter Tips for Newbies series, for all the tricks I learned along the way — Emma Lombard

 

 

Tools for Writing

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• Writers Helping Writers (free samples of Descriptive Thesaurus collection) — Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi

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Tools for Getting Published

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• The Key Book Publishing Paths chart — Jane Friedman

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• Writer Beware for up-to-date news of scammers in the publishing industry — Victoria Strauss

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• The Query Shark for writing Query Letters — Janet Reid

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• The Business of Being A Writer — Jane Friedman

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• The 10 Commandments of Author Branding — Shayla Raquel

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• Wide for the Win Facebook Group — Erin Wright

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• Sites to find agents:

  • Query Tracker​

  • Manuscript Wish List

  • Publisher's Market Place

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Tools for Managing Social Media

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• Tweetdeck — for scheduling Twitter posts

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• Facebook Page scheduled posts — for pre-planning Facebook posts​

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Lists of Book Reviewers

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• Penmore Press — huge and comprehensive database of book reviewers across all genres

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• The Empowered Author — connect with book bloggers

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Historical Research Sources

 

Naval

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• Royal Museums Greenwich — for all things British Royal Navy

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• Historic Naval Fiction — all aspects of naval fiction, including links to great fiction and non-fiction resources​

 

Women At Sea

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• Seafaring Women by renowned historian, Linda Grant De Pauw

 

• Female Tars by Suzanne J. Stark

 

• Hen Frigates by maritime historian, Joan Durett

 

• She Captains by maritime historian, Joan Durett

 

Great Storm Descriptions

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• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

 

Digitalised Newspapers

 

• Trove — Australian digitalised newspapers

 

• Newspaper Archive — US digitalised newspapers

 

Language

 

• Google Ngram Viewer — shows when a word or phrase was used throughout the history of written records

 

• Etymology Online — a history of words and their origins, and when they were first recorded in writing

 

• Deviant Art — Victorian-style Insults Generator (SO much fun!)

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• The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal — by John Camden Hotten

 

Victorian Times

 

• The Victorian Dictionary — a treasure trove of Victorian resources compiled by historical fiction author, Lee Jackson

 

• The Victorian Web — literature, history & culture in the age of Victoria

 

• Rootsweb — an absolute rabbit hole of ancestral history and stories

 

Maps

 

• David Rumsey Map Collection — digitalised, rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania

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Food Through the Ages

 

• What's cooking? A culinary journey through history — detailed guide of cuisine in particular historical periods

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• Eat Like A Pirate — includes interesting descriptions about the taste of flamingos, armadillos and guavas, and some preparation tips of other new foods through the eras

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Courtesy and Peerage Titles

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• Nancy Mayer, Regency Researcher — titles and names, as well as how to speak to and of titled persons

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• Courtesy Titles — a peer's wife and children are granted the use of certain titles, depending upon the rank of the peer

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