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Hello. Hello, delicious friends, and welcome to Who Did What Now, the history podcast that's not your history class, with me your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlot and Writer of Books. What? Yes, are any of us really that surprise this is happening? A wee bit, but are we excited? Yes, we're excited. Okay, so I'm going

into like Sesame Street voice through a wee bit. But yeah, the embargo was lifted. I can talk about it now. It's like one of many

embargoes I have on me for this year. Wow, it's been, it's wild. It is wild because this I was

started because I was very angry. I mean, I used to write things when I was younger, but I was very

angry about this book that I read about this

amazing woman and I was so mad at it, I was like, no, no. If you've been following my socials

for, you know, ever, then you might remember me ranting in the back garden, just like, complaining about how awful, awful this book was and how the tone

and just the message of it was just absolute bollocks and I was so mad. Anyway, yes, I should tell

you about my book, yes, it is Hors, Harlots and Hussies. The Incredible Lives of the Bad Women

from History. We went to many changes to get that title, but I wanted Harlots in there. I was like,

Harlots. I saw the press release. In the press release, I'd actually, like, said,

and who doesn't love a good tart? But they removed it, and I was like, oh, man, I am going

to slip that in to as many interviews as I possibly can. So yeah, that's happening.

So information about the book, I should probably give you.

So it's going to be out a couple years. No, it's going to be ready for pre-order. It's ready for

pre-order sort of next year. I think it's early next year. Springtime next year is when the

pre-orders will open up for it.

And that's just, yeah, that's just, it's just industry stuff really. And I've been asked like

so many times like, will I be doing the audiobook for it? Delicious friends. Why would you

ask such a question? Of course. Of course I'm going to do the audiobook.

You know, do you think I'm going to let people do that when I have this voice? And I can talk like

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