How to Approve your Fiction for Science?

Do you write fiction? Murder and mystery scenes? Police investigations? Does your story deal with scientists or scientific theories and experiments? But you are no scientist, right? So how do you make sure that you are getting the facts correct if you do not have experts amongst friends or family that could fill you in and check on the correctness of your research?

Well, there is a way.

Crime novels can be easily undone by faulty facts. While writers try to get the science straight, a leading US scientific organisation is now offering a seal of approval to books that do it right.

The Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS), established in 1898 by Alexander Graham Bell, has introduced a seal of approval for books with the scientific facts straight. Unlike most peer-review processes, this one is open to mystery writers.

You still have to do your research, but at least you can make sure that you got it right.

You can read more about this possibility in the linked BBC News Magazine article: Sherlock to CSI: Mystery writers seek science accuracy.

Sorry for the short posts right now, but I am working on an assignment during the day, and working on the books during the night …