My Favorite Research Books: Books for Writers
Cheryl St.John
(click on the linked ISBN to order from Amazon.com)
How To:
- Techniques of The Selling Writer, Dwight V. Swain University of Oklahoma
Press: Norman ISBN 0-8061-1191-7
- Building Believable Characters, Mac McCutcheon, Writer's Digest ISBN 0-89879-683-0
- Creating Characters, How To Build Story People, Dwight V. Swain, Writer's
Digest ISBN 0-89879-417-X
Where To Sell Your Manuscripts:
- Romance Writer's Sourcebook, Writer's Digest ISBN 0-89879-726-8
- The Writer's Market, Writer's Digest, latest edition always available at the
library
Basics:
- Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary or latest edition
- Random House Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd (or later) unabridged
edition
- Roget's International Thesaurus, fourth edition, ISBN 0-06-091169-7
Research:
- Time-Life, The Old West Series
- Time-Life, The Civil War Series
- A Dictionary of The Old West, Peter Watts, Wing Books ISBN 0-517-11913-7
- The Cowboy Dictionary, Ramon F. Adams, Perigree Books/Putnam ISBN 0-399-51866-5
- The Writer's Guide To Everyday Life In The 1800's, Marc McCutcheon
Writer's Digest ISBN 0-89879-541-9
- The Cowboy Life, Michelle Morris, Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-86682-6
- Fashions & Costumes From Godey's Lady's Book, edited by Stella
Blum, Dover ISBN 0-486-24841-0
- American Family of the 1890s Paper Dolls, Tom Tierney, Dover ISBN 0-486-25515-8
- Any Dover Paper Dolls
- The Calico Chronicle, Betty J. Mills, Texas Tech Press ISBN 0-89672-128-0
- Bloomingdale's illustrated 1886 Catalogue, Dover ISBN 0-48625780-0
- The Pioneer Catalogue of Country Living, Elmo Stoll/Mark Stoll, Personal
Library ISBN 0-920510-13-2
- Sears Roebuck 1902 Catalogue, Gramercy Books ISBN 0-517-00922-6
- A History of Man's Progress from 1830 to The Present Harold Warp, Pioneer Village,
Minden, NE (you name it, it's in here!)
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