History Through Fiction - The Podcast

In Season 3, Episode 5 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful chats with Julie Janson about her newly republished novel Benevolence. In this conversation, Janson talks about a lot of important topics related to Indigenous land rights and history in Australia. As a Burruberongal woman of the Darug Aboriginal Nation she talks about growing up in the Australian Bush and learning...

In Season 3, Episode 4 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful chats with Judith F. Brenner about her new novel The Moments Between Dreams. During the conversation, Brenner talks about the challenges faced by her characters who must overcome Polio and Intimate Partner Violence. Brenner also talks about her decision to set the novel in post-WWII Chicago and her experience publis...

In Season 3, Episode 3 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast , host Colin Mustful chats with Georgie Blalock, author of The Indiscreet Princess. During the conversation, Blalock talks about Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen Victorian and the main character of her novel, and her struggle to pursue her passion as an artist. Blalock also talks about going from screenwriting to narrative fictio...

In Season 3, Episode 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful chats with K.M. Butler, author of the historical Viking Normandy novel The Raven and the Dove. During the conversation, Butler talks about the Norse settlement of Francia during the late 9th century which is the setting featured in his novel. He also talks about the opening scenes of his novel, his fascination with...

In Season 3, Episode 1 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, host Colin Mustful chats with Yvette Manessis Corporon, author of the novel Where the Wandering Ends. During the conversation, Corporon, whose family descends from Greece, talks about the history of the Greek Civil War, the heroism of Queen Frederica, and the beautiful Greek of Corfu that acts as the setting of her novel. Finally, she...

We’re so excited for Season 3 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, we made a teaser! Season 3 features fifteen episodes with historical novelists who’ll be talking about their books and their craft. A new episode will be released every Monday beginning September 12, 2022. The teaser includes one quote from each of the fifteen authors. Check it out and don’t forget to subscribe for alerts about...

History Through Fiction is proud to announce that season 3 of our podcast is kicking off on Monday, September 12! Hosted by founder and editor Colin Mustful, season 3 includes fifteen episodes released weekly. Each episode features a historical novelist who will be talking about the craft of weaving elements of history and fiction to create engaging and enlightening stories. Notable interviews inc...

This special bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Allegra O’Neill and Katie Wilson, 2 of the 3 co-founders of Simily, a self-publishing platform that elevates creative writing. In this special episode, host Colin Mustful chats with the two co-founders about their groundbreaking online platform that connects writers with readers, democratizes the way stories gets seen, and...

In this special bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, HTF intern Reina Markert talks with Sheila O’Connor about her novel Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. Called an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, Evidence of V explores history of incarcerating young girls for the crime of “sexual immorality”, something that happened to the author’s maternal grandmoth...

Time for another Bonus Episode! This special episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Adele Myers, debut author of The Tobacco Wives. Called "a beautifully rendered portrait of a young woman finding her courage and her voice” by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Wingate, The Tobacco Wives is a coming-of-age novel set among the tobacco fields of North Carolina that sheds light...

Time for a Bonus Episode! This special bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features Marlie Wasserman, author of The Murderess Must Die. Host Colin Mustful talks with Wasserman, a debut novelist, about her choice to tell the story of Martha Place, the first women executed by the electric chair. Wasserman also talks about the yellow journalism that plagued media coverage in the lat...

Season 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast is coming to end, but we have one more interview for your listening pleasure! Episode eleven features Rachel McMillan, author of numerous books and novels including The London Restoration and her upcoming The Mozart Code. In this episode we talk with McMillan about her love of historical fiction, what architecture can teach us about the past, and th...

We’re ready for episode ten, are you? History Through Fiction: The Podcast continues with Amy Belding Brown, author of Emily’s House, a novel about Emily Dickinson's longtime maid, Irish immigrant Margaret Maher, whose bond with the poet ensured Dickinson's work would live on. In this episode we chat with Brown about her choice to write a story about Margaret Maher rather than Emily Dickison. We a...

Moving on to episode nine in Season 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast. This episode features writer, professor, scholar, and interpreter Julieta Almeida Rodrigues, author of the Eleonora and Joseph: Passion, Tragedy, and Revolution in the Age of Enlightenment. In this episode we chat with Rodrigues about using fiction to go beyond facts, the role women play in revolutions, and the connecti...

It’s time for episode eight in Season 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast. This episode features Mark Sullivan, author of the World War II historical novels Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. During our insightful conversation with the author, we chat about The Long Trek faced by Black Sea Germans during WWII, an event that is the centerpiece of his newest novel. We also talk t...

Season 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast continues with special guest Lindsey Fera, author of the just released historical novel Muskets and Minuets. A debut novel by Fera, Muskets and Minuets tells the story of Annalisa Howlett who masquerades as a man to join the colonial rebellion against the British. In this interview with the author, Fera talks about the rich history of her New Englan...

On to episode 6 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast. This week we feature Mally Becker, author of the Revolutionary War-era novel The Turncoat’s Widow. In this episode, we talk with Becker about the volunteer role at the Morristown National Historical Park that helped her uncover some surprising information and inspired her to write The Turncoat’s Widow. We also talk about how she wrote a fema...

Next up on History Through Fiction: The Podcast is our very own Ron Blumenfeld, author of the historical mystery novel The King’s Anatomist: The Journey of Andreas Vesalius. In this episode we talk with Blumenfeld about the biography of Andreas Vesalius that sat on his shelves for fifty years before it finally inspired him to write his debut novel. We also chat about the challenges of studying ana...

This week History Through Fiction: The Podcast keeps rolling with Sadeqa Johnson, author of Yellow Wife. Named an O, the Oprah Magazine and SheReads, Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Books of 2021 Pick, Yellow Wife tells the story of Lumpkin’s Slave Jail as seen through the eyes of Pheby Delores Brown. In our conversation with Johnson, we chat about the moment that inspired her to tell this sto...

Episode 3 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast features historian Christopher D. Stanley, author of the historical novel trilogy A Slave’s Story. We chat with Stanley about his travel research through the Greco-Roman world, the life of a slave in ancient Rome, and the differences between sharing history through fiction and nonfiction. We also talk with Stanley about the importance of history an...

Next up on History Through Fiction: The Podcast is Stephanie Landsem, author of the stunning 1930s-era novel In a Far-Off Land. In this episode we talk with Landsem about some of the important social issues raised by her novel such as women’s rights and Mexican repatriation. Landsem also talks about the joy in watching old films to research 1930s Hollywood, the birth of celebrity, and her unique w...

Leading off Season 2 of History Through Fiction: The Podcast is Sarah Penner, author of the New York Times Bestseller The Lost Apothecary. In this episode we chat with Penner about the incredible success of her debut novel and her experience transitioning from being a writer who works full-time to being a full-time writer. We also chat with her about overcoming rejection, the importance of portray...

After a fantastic first season, History Through Fiction is proud to announce that season 2 kicks off on Monday, September 13! Hosted by founder and editor Colin Mustful, season includes eleven episodes released weekly. Each episode features a historical novelist who will be talking about the craft of weaving elements of history and fiction to create engaging and enlightening stories. Notable inter...

In this bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast, we step away from elements of writing to talk with Oanh Jordan, the founder of Tiny Triumph Co., about elements of marketing—relationship marketing. Jordan, who operates her own literary marketing consulting firm, talks with host Colin Mustful about how she went from being an engineer to helping authors discover and design purpose-driv...

Bonus Episode! In the first-ever bonus episode of History Through Fiction: The Podcast we bring you publisher, entrepreneur, and book lover, Sue Arroyo. Unlike our usual episodes, we break away from the craft of historical fiction to take an insider look at publishing. Founder of History Through Fiction Colin Mustful talks with the Arroyo, the founder of CamCat Books, about her long and challengin...