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

CIEP Advanced Professional Member
ACES full member.

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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
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
youtu.be
May 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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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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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
Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid
April 18, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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
April 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
One for the graphic designers and typographers out there 😁

#design #GraphicDesign #typography #editing #designers #DesignSky #edibuddies
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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
April 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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
April 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."
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...
www.openculture.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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
March 31, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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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…
writerbeware.blog
March 30, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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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
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
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
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