Lily

Lily asked 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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Nikki Reads Slowly

Nikki Reads Slowly asked Kate Moore:

Like many, I want to thank you for giving a voice to these women and their families. All because a rich man wanting to make himself richer. And the disregard for human life continued in Radium City! That poor town. My question: where do you get the most money when people buy your books in ebook form? I know stores take a portion of the sales and some stores take less than others. Thank you!

Carol

Carol asked Kate Moore:

From The Woman They Could Not Silence... What is the exact phrase Elizabeth Packard used to express something like: Ours is to act, the events are God's God controls events but people are to act I am listening to the audio book and it was said several times before Part 5 / Chapter 36. What is a quote from one of her writings?

Kathlyn

Kathlyn asked Kate Moore:

We were listening to the audio book and it doesn't say that at all. Your book confuses rays and particles and attributes the most damage to the gamma radiation. It also fails to mention the critically important fact that radium is a 'bone seeker'. Why?

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