Please join us for What's New in Historical Fiction, a regular panel series featuring historical novelists with new and upcoming titles. Moderated by Colin Mustful, founder of History Through Fiction, this special panel includes:

Emily Bleeker, author of When We Were Enemies
Sean Lusk, author of The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
Katherine Vaz, author of Above the Salt
Katherine Howe, author of A True Account

Emily Bleeker is the bestselling author of six novels. Combined, her books have reached more than two million readers and she is a two-time Whitney Award finalist as well as an Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her new novel, When We Were Enemies, spotlights two women, generations apart, who face heart-wrenching choices that will change them both forever.

Sean Lusk is an award-winning short-story writer, and winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Fish Short Story Prize. He has lived in Greece, Pakistan, and Egypt, variously working as a gardener, speech writer, and diplomatic official. His debut novel, The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley, is a sparkling historical novel of wild and wonderful mechanical automata, love in a variety of forms, and gentle themes of identity, with a cast of fabulous characters.

Katherine Vaz has been a Briggs-Copeland Fellow in Fiction at Harvard University and Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is the author of three novels and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded by the Library of Congress. Her new novel, Above the Salt, is an irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious violence and reignite their budding romance in Civil-War America.

Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adults and young adults, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Penguin Classics, and is the co-author with Anderson Cooper of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Vanderbilt and Astor. Her new novel, A True Account, is a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.