Adventures in Storytelling: Historical Fiction

This session focuses on Historical Fiction titles and its many sub-genres.  The links below are the session PowerPoint, articles, Web sites and other resources.

Deadlines for extra CE credit for the Historical Fiction class can be found here.

Where the authors are:

• Historical Novel Society's Member Web sites

 Where the reviews and readers are:

• Historical Fiction.com
• Historical Fiction Network
• Historical Fiction Review
• Historical Novel Review
• The Historical Novel Society
• Historical Novels.info

Where the fans are:

• Historical Fiction Online forums

Where the bloggers are:

• Carla Nayland Historical Fiction
• Historical Tapestry
• Reader's Advisor Online's list of Historical Fiction bloggers
• Reading the Past
• Tanzanite's Book Covers
• Tanzanite's Shelf and Stuff

Where the popular historical time periods and figures are:

• American Historical Fiction - from the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
• Ancient Greece in Fiction
• The Ancient World - from Seattle Public Library
• Elizabeth I
• Historical Fiction set in the 17th and 18th centuries - from Seattle Public Library
• Historical Fiction set in the 19th century - from Seattle Public Library
• Historical Women in Fiction - from the Akron-Summit County (OH) Public Library
• The Middle Ages - from Seattle Public Library
• Modern Novels set in the Middle Ages - from the Medieval Studies Program at the University of Oregon
• Prehistoric Fiction
• Presidential Fiction - from the Lincoln (NE) City Library
• Richard III - both nonfiction and fiction titles
• Roman history - from the Roman History Reading group, includes both fiction and nonfiction
• World War II - both fiction and nonfiction, from the Boston Public Library

Other links of note:

• Print and Online Historical Fiction RA Resources
• Authors on the Web's Historical Fiction Roundtable
• Wikipedia's Historical Novel entry