Favorite On-line Research Sites

(These were initially posted on Romancenovel.tv in Summer 2007.  I’m reposting them here, as they are no longer available there.)
Hello again!
I bet everybody can help me out here. Let’s list some of our favorite online information sites. I’m picking these straight out of my favorites folder, so they won’t be in any order. At all.
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Six Favorite Reference Books

(These were initially posted on Romancenovel.tv in Summer 2007.  I’m reposting them here, as they are no longer available there.)
Okay. Here’s the start of my bibliography. I’m not saying you need to buy these books, or even use them. I’m saying I’ve found them helpful. I always like to work with a book before buying [...]

Oxford English Dictionary

(These were initially posted on Romancenovel.tv in Summer 2007.  I’m reposting them here, as they are no longer available there.)
If I had to pick just one resource for the work I do, it might just have to be the Oxford English Dictionary. I bought it on cd when I was first starting in the business, [...]

Virtual Research Assignment

(These were initially posted on Romancenovel.tv in Summer 2007.  I’m reposting them here, as they are no longer available there.)
One of the things I really loved about the much-missed Squawk Radio is the way Eloisa James, the inveterate professor, would always manage to include an assignment in her post, and everyone would have a little [...]

Questions I get asked to research

(These were initially posted on Romancenovel.tv in Summer 2007.  I’m reposting them here, as they are no longer available there.)
Hello again!
The questions most asked fall into the two varieties you mentioned.
There’s overall thematic questions–for Eloisa James’s Essex series, I did a lot of research about horse racing and horse breeding in Regency England. For Desperate [...]