Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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first heard Jul 2026
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Well, like a lot of writers, I finish my book a long time before it comes out, right?
Like eight or nine months, sometimes a year, and then it goes through the whole publication process.
And early in that process, we have trusted readers.
You know, I might show it to, I have two very close friends who are very well-known nonfiction female journalists, and we read each other's work.
But in this case, a British researcher whose work I respected asked if he could read it.
And what science writer doesn't want a very famous researcher to read their work and say, you know, good job, or maybe you got this one little thing wrong?
As careful as my fact-checking is, it never hurts to have another read, especially at a very high level.
Right.
So I had sent him my manuscript, which is kind of something we don't do, but I thought, all right, very, you know, what could go wrong?
And I was sitting in my doctor's office and I got a call and he said that he was going to use several pages from the manuscript, sort of what we call my nut graphs, you know, real heart of my argument.
in a paper that would come out in a couple of months, about six months before my book.
And he knew I wouldn't mind because he was, you know, he knew that I wanted to get these ideas out there and that it was very, very important that they get out there sooner rather than later.
And under his name, he could do a lot of good for this new argument that I was making.
And it was not this book.
It was another book.
And I...
started shaking.
My whole body started shaking.
I literally became almost voiceless.
And I said something to the effect of, you can't use my work without my permission.
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