Lily
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Kate Moore:
Kate -- please tell us more about your background? Did you train and/or work as a journalist? How did you become interested enough in this topic to write a book about it?
Kate Moore
Thanks for your question! My background is in book publishing; I worked in-house as an editor for twelve years, most recently as an editorial director at Penguin Random House, before going freelance as an editor and author in 2014. I discovered the girls' story through directing These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, which dramatizes the Ottawa dial-painters' experiences. The story really resonated with me. Through my research to make my theatre production authentic, I realized no book existed that told the story from the girls' perspective. I felt passionately about ensuring they were remembered and the individual women celebrated, which is how the book came to be.
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Linda Hofer
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Kate Moore:
Thank you for writing this book. Years ago in the 1980s I took care of a patient who had been a radium dial painter and lost her arm in her 20s because of it. I always remembered her because it was such an unusual thing, and curiosity about others that did this kind of work led me to your book. I immediately recognized her. It was truly horrifying to see how many others were sick or died from dial painting. No ? here
Kathlyn
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Kate Moore:
I'm a post grad medical physicist & my husband is retired regional head of nuclear medicine, radiation protection advisor & member of the UK NAIR team. Your physics is totally wrong - wrong at the most basic level. Gamma rays are the LEAST damaging as they deposit less energy on transit through tissue. Beta PARTICLES deposit more energy and alpha PARTICLES deposit the most energy and are the most dangerous. Why?
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