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How dare she conduct herself as a modern woman of the 1920s?

How dare she step out on her husband?

How dare she do things that were previously just the business of men.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold War Wicked on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom, and they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories,

and now we want to tell you those stories with details that have never been published.

Tenfold More Wicked Presents Wicked Words

is about the choices that writers make, good and bad.

It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

Abbott Kaler is an author who wrote a book called The Ghosts of Eden Park.

It's this fantastic mystery set during prohibition, and it's about a bootleger and his wife and

their millions of dollars and their terrible marriage.

It says Karen Abbott on this particular book, but how should I introduce you?

So on the book it's Karen Abbott, which is now a pen name for Abbott Kaler.

So tell me briefly how this evolution happened,

because you've been writing for a really long time.

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