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If you infringe the rules, we'll bar you. So think before you post, think again and use your own delete button. If you're bumped and can't think why, it'll be because you didn't read the rules.

Play nice and you'll be fine.
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NOTE 2: In order to keep the delineations clear, we've created a board for posting notices of self-published e-books. Please use it to your best advantage.

Details of board limitations, restrictions on image size and the like here if you really need/want to know them.

Introduce yourselves here... Tell us everything we need to know: who you are, where you're from, what you write or read or publish, or sell, or who you represent.

Tours, library readings, bookshop events, blog tours...whatever. This is the place where authors can tell their readers what they're doing. Please flag with author name and a location if it's a tour.

This is the place to post interesting events hosted by or featuring authors/other people of interest to readers of history who are *not* members of the HWA

Authors: If you have a new novel coming out, this is the place to let us know. And if you have a novel in production and want to set up a poll to ask about the preferred title/cover art/theme, this is the place to do it.

Tell us about your latest publication: what it's about, when it's coming out, where we can get it. Polls are active here, so you can ask questions, offer different cover art... whatever you like pertaining to new books.

Got something to say about any/all aspects of historical fiction? This is the place.

Post your top ten books of today. Note: By tomorrow, or at least next week, next month, next year, you may have discovered others that usurp your original top ten. Post these too...

If you have thoughts on a particular novel or want to place a review of historical fiction, this is the place to do it: Please list by: Title; Author name; publisher; edition.
Author surnames starting A through G here.

Author Surnames starting H through M here.

Author Surnames starting N through R here.

Author surnames starting S through Z here.

If you have any comments, thoughts, wishes, hopes for any aspect of historical non-fiction writing, this is the place to put them.

If you want to review a particular piece of historical non-fiction, this is the place to do it.

If you have any links, comments, thoughts on Facebook pages, Twitter/tweets, websites other than this one or blogs - all pertaining to any aspect of historical writing, this is the place to put it.

Got any comments on 'Eagle' or 'Gladiator' or 'Enigma'... or any of the thousand other films with a historical baseline? This is the place to dissect the inaccuracies and applaud the bits they got right. Or just to talk about the plot/actors/locations/costumes.

As with films, so with TV/Radio - any/all comments here.

And the plays.... upcoming, been-to-see, wish-we'd-seen. All here.

This is the place to discuss fantasy writing of a historical nature...

Please post here about your e-book.

If you know of any good - recent - historical, archaeological or anthropological discoveries, this is the place to tell us all about them - let us know the era and/or the date we're dealing with and then where and then what...

This is the place where readers can ask intelligent, useful questions of their favourite author. Please remember we all have deadlines and 'Why did you make character x change their cloak in line 2, para 8, page 137 of a book you wrote 10 years ago?' is unlikely to elicit an answer.

The HWA has many members who are publishers or agents. This is the place to ask brief, pertinent questions about the art of publishing.

If you're reading a book that has no historical content but is never the less interesting and you want to share the details, this is the place

If you have any comments to make about board structure, useful categories we might add, or thoughts about the function of the forum, this is the place.

Weather, last night's (non-historical) TV, politics, dog-walking, fun things your pet chinchilla did with the toy mouse... this is the place.
Keep it clean, this board is open to all ages.

Q: How many Roman legionaries does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: They weren't invented then, stupid...

You get the gist... jokes here, and as above, keep them clean: this board is open to all ages.