Realize it or not, the minute you started writing historical fiction, like those pioneers, you chose to break the norms of the writing life that used to rule, in print and online. You left behind all you thought you knew about writing fiction, and ventured out into a new world of responsibility to the past in act of global magnitude. You joined a community of unlikely incomparable people from all walks of life, from all parts of the globe in working towards ethics in historical fiction.