Researching Your Book
Even if you aren't writing a historical romance novel,
you will more often than not still need to do research
for your book. It might be on a state, a job, a car, even
plants or prison time for a crime. There seems there is
something in every story that an author just doesn't
know enough about to cover without a little extra help.

No matter what, you don't want to mess up. If you do,
you will hear about it, either from a critique partner, an
agent, an editor, or worse of all, a pile of readers who
feel cheated or angry and think you didn't do your job
well enough. Hopefully the links below will give you at
least some starting points, if not all the information you
need on some things.
I tried to put together as many great Research Links as I can find. They
cover topics such as the police, medicine, witches, werewolves, buggies and
boats. There are sections on the Civil War, the Middle Ages, the Old West,
and more.

The Research Books page follows the same pattern. I've tried to list books
that cover all of the above, finding books written just for writers when I could,
since they are so much easier and quicker to use.