Resource Links

Clothing and Hair

• Costume Gallery (for ladies only)
• Fashion-Era
• 19_flashback.com (starts at 1960s and continues through the 90s. This is more than clothing. Be sure to add the "s" at the end of each number.)
• Medieval Pavilion Resources--a list of costuming sites from 11th c.-17th c.
• Edwardian and Victorian clothing

Contests

• Proof Positive

Creative Writing Tips

• Coffee House for Writers
• Howling Errors by Poul Anderson (SFWA)
• Rejection Collection
• Scriptorium, Webzine for Writers

General

• California Digital Library -- excellent link to the UC system's scholarly research
• Probert's Encyclopedia -- excellent, short answers from costume to warfare to slang to history and more
• Country Reports.org
• Crime Scene Investigation
• Crop Circles
• Enchanted Learning.com
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Forensic Science Links
• Gemlore--Prayer beads
• International Congress of Maritime Museums
• Internet Public Library
• Maritime Links
• Mining and metallurgy information
• Mining ghost towns
• Egyptian Gods at the Colorado Social Science Data Lab
• Journal Articles for Social Sciences
• Online Etomology Dictionary -- you can find the origins of both regular and curse words
• Publishing Law Center
• Road to Romance -- a good reference for readers and writers of romance
• US military ranks
• World Wide Words
• Zeno's Forensic Site

Grammar & Writing Tips

• APA citation guide at The Write Source.com
• APA Style.org
• Daily Grammar
• Elements of Style
• Gerunds
• MLA citation guide at The Write Source.com
• Revising Prose
• University of Purdue's Online Writing Lab Grammar and Punctuation
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center's page on citations

History

• American Colonial Life
• American history
• American Presidents
• Australian Convicts
• Black History timeline beginning 1517
• Civil War
• Classical history
• Dutch
• England -- Georgian
• English Civil War -- causes
• English Civil War -- choosing sides
• English Civil War -- re-enactors
• French Revolution
• Germany
• History Central - general, but not indepth history
• History Channel
• India
• Italy
• Jamaica
• Korean War
• Norway
• Roman Empire
• Spanish Civil War
• Spartacus Educational
• Switzerland
• Women in War
• World History
• xrefer

Markets

• Ralan.com (compilation of magazine links, etc.)
• NewPages Guide to Online Literary Magazines
• Beckham House is a book publisher offering a unique joint venture self publishing program for multicultural and cutting edge works, especially nonfiction and memoirs.
• More to come

Mythology

• Encyclopedia Mythica
• Mythhome
• Norse Mythology

Names

• 20000 Names
• Babynames.com
• Behind the Name (etymology)
• Pronunciation of Celtic names
• Names of Arabic origin in Spain, Portugal, and the Americas
• Meaning of Names of Places in Switz.

Publishers

• Speculative Vision (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)

Slang

• Hardboiled slang
• 1920s Slang
• Origin of Navy Terminology

Space

• The Digital Library for Physics, Astrophysics, and Instrumentation
• Exploratorium--Auroras
• Nasa
• Starry Skies
• Nine Planets

Writer Associations

• Electronic Publishing Internet Connection
• Greater Los Angeles Writers Society
• Mystery Writers of America
• Romance Writers of America
• Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc
• Sisters in Crime

Writer Supplies

• Papyrus Place

Writing Forums

• Romance Divas -- Forum for romance writers
• Writer's Beat -- Forum for writers

Writing News

• National Writers Union