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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor
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Non-fiction editor of award-winning and bestselling books and other media 📚 Freelance. Also photographer 📸 Loves art 🎨 and the guitar 🎸

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Want to know how to protect your creative work from AI piracy?

Find out here 👇

#writing #writers #WritingCommunity #authors #Booksky 📚💙 #publishing #fiction #novels #GraphicNovels #nonfiction #books #design #art #photography #illustration #IntellectualProperty #copyright #NoAI #GenAI
How to protect your book from AI piracy
Book piracy has become a big issue in recent months. In case you might not be aware of what’s been happening, LibGen is an illegal site containing millions of pirated texts from books, resear…
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June 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Do you know how the law applies to your writing?

It might not be as obvious as you think!

Find out here 👇

#writing #WritingCommunity #fiction #nonfiction #Booksky 📚💙 #authors #WritersOfBluesky #editing #journalism #communications #books #law #PublishingLaw #copyright #IP #IntellectualProperty
How does the law apply to your writing?
Do you know how the law applies to your writing? When you’re publishing content, chances are you’ll come across legal matters at some point in the process. And they could be things you …
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May 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.
May 13, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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May the 4th be with you – now more than ever!

(This never gets old 👇😁)

#StarWars #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th #FeelTheForce
Darth Vader Being a Jerk, HD Special Edition
YouTube video by Todd Vaziri
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May 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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In the bluebell wood 2... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk #FlowerPhotography #weekend #green
A view along a shaded path in a beech wood with bluebells
May 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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In the bluebell wood... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk
A view of a bluebell wood in shade
April 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
Tomorrow it's the 7th birthday of #buyastrangerabook!

It first happened on May 2nd 2018.

Incredible!

Thanks so much for allowing it to keep going.

I LOVE doing it and really hope you enjoy it all too.

See you tomorrow!

www.bigissue.com/culture/book...
An indie bookshop is getting strangers to buy each other books on Twitter
Big Green Bookshop is giving readers the chance to #buyastrangerabook every Wednesday
www.bigissue.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social
We welcome news about the joint venture between the Copyright Licensing Agency, Publishing Licensing Services & @alcs.co.uk to develop a collective licence for generative AI. This announcement is timely and demonstrates that licensing for AI is possible with transparency & remuneration for authors.
April 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Are you a creative?
You need to see this 👇
#WritingCommunity #writing #writer #author #design #designers #art #artists #illustration #illustrators #videography #video #photography #photographers #musicians #music #edibuddies #editing #journalism #journalists #law #AI #copyright #IntellectualProperty
goodlawproject.bsky.social Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Apr 20
If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community.

And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
goodlawproject.org/authorsai/?u...
Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project
Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.
goodlawproject.org
April 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid
April 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1800.

The national repository for every book published in the USA, important historic documents and much more! 📚📜

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the Library, a huge building in white stone in the American classical style. Immense and imposing Epic interior of the circular reading room. An ornately painted dome in the ceiling centre looks down on arched stained glass windows around the room. Beneath them, inset arches on two levels in Roman amphitheatre style surround wooden desks in rows around a central statue
April 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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It's that magical time of year...🪻

#bluebells #Beechwood #nature #flowers #floral #woods #NaturePhotography #photography #LandscapePhotography #ThePhotoHour #BluebellWood #woodland #WoodlandWalk
A view of bluebells flowering in a beechwood. A shaft of light is streaming across the carpet of flowers diagonally, from left to right
April 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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One for the graphic designers and typographers out there 😁

#design #GraphicDesign #typography #editing #designers #DesignSky #edibuddies
Picture of the front of a house with the number 39 on the nameplate, underneath it reads 'Lorem Ipsum'
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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I don't know about you, but this glorious weather and millions of people out showing their value of freedom has really lifted my spirits 😊

Plus blossom 💮

How y'all doing, lovely Skyers?

#Spring #blossom #photography #NaturePhotography #GardenPhotography #trees #flower #floral #HandsOff #nature
Cherry blossom on a branch
April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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victoriastrauss.com
Scam "literary agency" Envision Literary Agency is impersonating Penguin Random House with fake publishing offers, via the email below, using the fake email address acquisitions@penguinrandomhouse-prh.com 🧵1/8
This is Mike Guzman, Contract Specialist at Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House is looking for new book titles to be published this year. We are the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world. Headquartered in New York, we have publishing operations in 17 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world. At Penguin Random House, authors and their work are the center of everything we do. We are proud to provide authors with unprecedented editorial excellence, marketing reach, long-standing connections with booksellers, and industry-leading insight into reader and consumer behavior. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, Penguin Random House also uses digital technology to create unique reading experiences and expand the reach of our authors. I am reaching out to you to let you know that we received a preliminary endorsement of your book, [redacted] from a literary agent named Pamela Morrison, and we are pleased to accept the submission. Before we can proceed with the acquisition process, we kindly request your assistance in processing a Separation of Book Rights Order to ensure that the rights of your work are properly assigned. As we move forward with the potential publication of your book, it is essential for both parties to have a clear understanding of the ownership and rights associated with the work. The Separation of Book Rights Order will formalize the transfer of rights to our publishing company, outlining the terms and conditions of the agreement in a legally binding document. This step is necessary to protect the interests of both yourself as the author and our publishing company, ensuring that the rights to your creative work are secured and that all parties involved are in agreement regarding the terms of the acquisition. Once the Separation of Book Rights Order has been processed, we can proceed with the acquisition process and work towards bringi…
April 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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merriam-webster.com
You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."
Tweet from @A_B_morgan: My seven-year-old asked for a dictionary this week. We went to the bookshop today to buy one. She walked home hugging it, pausing every so often to look up a word, grinning as though she had been given a book of spells, the key to wonders. Merriam-Webster QT: The kids are alright.
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book

Have a listen. The novel turns 100 this month.
The Great Gatsby: A Free Audio Book
April 10th will mark the 100th anniversary of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel, The Great Gatsby. As A.O. Scott notes in a recent tribute, when first published, The Great Gatsby got off to...
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April 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Post a cool library 📚

Bishan Public Library, Singapore, 2006.

I believe an appropriate description for this would be: wow!

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings
Exterior of the Library: a rectangular building with white sloping roof supported by columns, and fully glass-fronted in blue panes. White narrow vertical rectangular blocks in blue, green and yellow glass protrude from the front elevation, forming places to sit inside Interior of the library in white. There is a high atrium and walkway to the left, while on the right the rooms on the second floor appear suspended on white pillars. The interior continues the outside colour theme, with huge walls of glass in blue, green and yellow
March 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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natehoffelder.com
Scammers are now trying to trick authors into paying agent commissions on a contract which (obviously) is fake.
A New Scam to Watch For: "Pre-Paid" Agent Commissions - Writer Beware
As I’ve discussed to my readers’ exhaustion, as well as my own, impersonation scams are rife these days. Scammers are impersonating real, reputable literary agents, publishers, editors, film…
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March 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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societyofauthors.bsky.social
We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.

But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Twilight in Spring🪻

#ScillaChionodoxa #GloryOfTheSnow #nature #NaturePhotography #photography #GardenPhotography #flower #floral #twilight #evening #blue #spring #SpringFlowers #dusk #ThePhotoHour
A sea of Glory of the Snow blue flowers (Scilla Chionodoxa) at dusk
March 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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PSA: Find out if your book has been pirated by LibGen with this handy tool from The Atlantic 👇

#WritingCommunity #writing #author #publishing #SelfPublishing #AI #copyright #IntellectualProperty #IPTheft #Booksky 💙📚
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Random question: T-shirts over long sleeves. Is '90s layering back, or did it never go away?

Asking for a friend 😁

#fashion #style #clothing #1990s #UrbanStyle #layering
A black t-shirt over a grey long-sleeve shirt
March 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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And here's my first starter pack (filled too quickly!) of Canadian authors and illustrators of books for children and teens. Just because it bears repeating, like all good things. ❤️🇨🇦📚 go.bsky.app/2Ys743U
March 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory and UConn Health have successfully discovered a molecular switch that can actually SHUT DOWN cancer growth signals and STOP tumor growth at the RNA LEVEL. The discovery could pave the way for a groundbreaking RNA-based multi-cancer treatment. 🧪🧵⬇️
March 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM