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100 Best Romance Book Blogs and Websites
https://books.feedspot.com/romance_book_blogs/
On this list, don't click the title of the site at the top of each listing, or you just get taken to a Feedspot promo. Click the hard to see, unhighlighted link at the bottom of each listing to reach the recommended website. (Note also that this list is more for readers than writers.)

All About Romance (AAR)
https://allaboutromance.com
A huge community for romance readers and writers, with reviews, the interviews, the message boards, the blogs, the steals and deals, and more.

Antique Words, by C. J. Cherryh
https://www.cherryh.com/www/antique1.htm
A list of words that were commonly used prior to the 1900's; useful if you'd like to avoid anachronistic phrases in your historical fiction.

Karen Fox: Romance Publishers
https://karenafox.com/romance-publishers-2/
Updates on the romance publishing industry. See also Romance Agents.

Literary Liaisons
http://www.literary-liaisons.com/articleshome.html
A huge archive of articles on historical research for romance and historical novels. The format is a bit archaic; click the bullet to the left of each topic to see the article.

Romance: Publishing’s Hottest Genres and Subgenres
https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/romance/

Romance Reviews Today
http://romrevtoday.blogspot.com/
A good place to get your romance novel reviewed.

Romance Writers of America
https://www.rwa.org/
The writers' organization for romance.

Romance Writers of America: Articles
https://www.rwa.org/Online/Education/Articles/Online/Resources/Articles/Articles.aspx
Huge archive of articles on writing romance.

Romance Writers of Australia
https://romanceaustralia.com/

Romantic Novelists Association (UK)
https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org

Costume Sites

The Costume Page
http://www.costumepage.org/
A vast collection of links to all things costume.

The Costume Site
https://milieux.com/category.php?catid=4

History of Costume
https://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/TEXT_INDEX.HTML

History of Western Fashion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Western_fashion
This is Wikipedia's entry page to a wide range of articles on costume and fashion covering just about every period of history and geographic area. More text than images.

VictorianVoices.net
https://www.VictorianVoices.net/fashion/index.shtml
A growing collection of fashion articles scanned from Victorian periodicals. Here you'll find not only pictures of Victorian costume, but the articles themselves describing the fabrics, colors, and latest changes in styles.

Historical Fiction

Historical Fiction or Fictionalized History? Problems for Writers of Historical Novels for Young Adults
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/fall98/brown.html

Historical Novel Society
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/
Includes a definition of the historical novel, articles, reviews, newsletter and more.

Historical Novelists' Center
http://historicalnovelists.tripod.com/homepage.htm
Loads of historical information, essays and articles, plus huge collections of bibliographies of reference materials. Though it hasn't been updated since 2001, it's well worth visiting for research.

Jo Beverly's Historical Articles
https://www.jobev.com/menu.html
An excellent collection of research articles on British history, including titles, menus, monarchs and more.

Literary Liaisons
http://www.literary-liaisons.com/articleshome.html
A huge archive of articles on historical research for romance and historical novels. The format is a bit archaic; click the bullet to the left of each topic to see the article.

VictorianVoices.net
https://www.victorianvoices.net
Hosted by the editor of Writing-World.com, this site offers an archive of thousands of articles scanned from Victorian periodicals, covering just about every imaginable topic of the Victorian period: royalty, fashion, cooking, crafts, household management (including how to manage the servants), etiquette, travel, health, and much more.

Writing History/Writing Fiction: A Virtual Conference
https://www.albany.edu/history/hist_fict/home.htm
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