Lee Burton - Author | Editor
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Ocean's Edge is booking developmental and copy & line edits for March and April.
▪︎ Trad & #Indie bestselling clients
▪︎ Fourteen years editing indies
▪︎ Invoices in CAD
Friendly queries always encouraged.
#writingcommunity #amediting #good #books 💙📚
www.oceansedgeediting.com
▪︎ Trad & #Indie bestselling clients
▪︎ Fourteen years editing indies
▪︎ Invoices in CAD
Friendly queries always encouraged.
#writingcommunity #amediting #good #books 💙📚
www.oceansedgeediting.com
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I put my new comic up on itch! $8 for a 34-page horror story!
On Halloween night in 1994, two teenagers and their bully walk into a stranger's basement, and discover an uncomfortable secret about a girl they know.
You can read it here: keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
On Halloween night in 1994, two teenagers and their bully walk into a stranger's basement, and discover an uncomfortable secret about a girl they know.
You can read it here: keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
January 26, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I put my new comic up on itch! $8 for a 34-page horror story!
On Halloween night in 1994, two teenagers and their bully walk into a stranger's basement, and discover an uncomfortable secret about a girl they know.
You can read it here: keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
On Halloween night in 1994, two teenagers and their bully walk into a stranger's basement, and discover an uncomfortable secret about a girl they know.
You can read it here: keezyyoung.itch.io/its-bitter
I dunno why that would be an issue. If you're new to a platform, it's going to take a while to integrate it.
Plus, Bluesky doesn't feed you content the same way Twitter did, so it takes a little more of a conscious effort to establish. That's just the nature of it.
Plus, Bluesky doesn't feed you content the same way Twitter did, so it takes a little more of a conscious effort to establish. That's just the nature of it.
February 4, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I dunno why that would be an issue. If you're new to a platform, it's going to take a while to integrate it.
Plus, Bluesky doesn't feed you content the same way Twitter did, so it takes a little more of a conscious effort to establish. That's just the nature of it.
Plus, Bluesky doesn't feed you content the same way Twitter did, so it takes a little more of a conscious effort to establish. That's just the nature of it.
After two days of hours-long post-storm shoveling, today I am leaving my driveway shamefully unshovelled. All the neighbors will see how I forfeit my place in Canadian Valhalla.
#shame #shame #shame #CanadianShame
#shame #shame #shame #CanadianShame
February 4, 2026 at 10:29 PM
After two days of hours-long post-storm shoveling, today I am leaving my driveway shamefully unshovelled. All the neighbors will see how I forfeit my place in Canadian Valhalla.
#shame #shame #shame #CanadianShame
#shame #shame #shame #CanadianShame
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Are all expansionist empires just big Ponzi Schemes? Hear my thoughts on that and bunch of other listener questions on the latest Bonus Episode!
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art19.com/shows/our-fa...
Bonus Episode - Ponzi Empires, Thieving Saints, and Skin Grafts
In this Bonus Episode Sebastian takes questions from listeners about the series on the original Ponzi Scheme. The host investigates the history of the expression "robbing Peter to pay Paul", locates e...
art19.com
February 3, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Are all expansionist empires just big Ponzi Schemes? Hear my thoughts on that and bunch of other listener questions on the latest Bonus Episode!
art19.com/shows/our-fa...
art19.com/shows/our-fa...
Oh no. That's the worst. I hope you can find a way to recover some of it. That's like losing half your mind
February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Oh no. That's the worst. I hope you can find a way to recover some of it. That's like losing half your mind
This is my garbage day and it's supposed to go out, but don't seem like I have a street to put it out on..
February 3, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This is my garbage day and it's supposed to go out, but don't seem like I have a street to put it out on..
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I’m 175 pages in on a hockey romance and thus far it’s been entirely about HOCKEY.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:54 AM
I’m 175 pages in on a hockey romance and thus far it’s been entirely about HOCKEY.
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One small butterfly garden is not too much to ask.
February 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
One small butterfly garden is not too much to ask.
I can think of no message that is less Star Trek than that.
February 2, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I can think of no message that is less Star Trek than that.
On a network that's owned by an oligarch who's using his media empire to aid fascism.
February 2, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On a network that's owned by an oligarch who's using his media empire to aid fascism.
Yep. I was stoked for Discovery. Knew something was off by episode 3. Almost a hate watch then.
Heard season 2 was better. Nope.
Watch S1 of Picard. Awful.
Oh, you gotta try BNW: Despise it.
It's a Star Trek brand w/ badly written SF under the hood, from the writers of Lost and Batman & Robin.
Heard season 2 was better. Nope.
Watch S1 of Picard. Awful.
Oh, you gotta try BNW: Despise it.
It's a Star Trek brand w/ badly written SF under the hood, from the writers of Lost and Batman & Robin.
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Yep. I was stoked for Discovery. Knew something was off by episode 3. Almost a hate watch then.
Heard season 2 was better. Nope.
Watch S1 of Picard. Awful.
Oh, you gotta try BNW: Despise it.
It's a Star Trek brand w/ badly written SF under the hood, from the writers of Lost and Batman & Robin.
Heard season 2 was better. Nope.
Watch S1 of Picard. Awful.
Oh, you gotta try BNW: Despise it.
It's a Star Trek brand w/ badly written SF under the hood, from the writers of Lost and Batman & Robin.
1000%
Problem is, it feels like criticism of Nu Trek is being overly criticized, even weaponized, for advertising ... but if I like a thing and then someone changes everything about the thing that I liked, I'm allowed to not like it now.
Same way new fans are allowed to like it -- but I'm out.
Problem is, it feels like criticism of Nu Trek is being overly criticized, even weaponized, for advertising ... but if I like a thing and then someone changes everything about the thing that I liked, I'm allowed to not like it now.
Same way new fans are allowed to like it -- but I'm out.
February 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM
1000%
Problem is, it feels like criticism of Nu Trek is being overly criticized, even weaponized, for advertising ... but if I like a thing and then someone changes everything about the thing that I liked, I'm allowed to not like it now.
Same way new fans are allowed to like it -- but I'm out.
Problem is, it feels like criticism of Nu Trek is being overly criticized, even weaponized, for advertising ... but if I like a thing and then someone changes everything about the thing that I liked, I'm allowed to not like it now.
Same way new fans are allowed to like it -- but I'm out.
February 2, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Still having an existential crisis from talking on Steam Chat for two hours last night with a weird reverb when I spoke so I had to repeatedly hear what my real voice sounded like.
February 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Still having an existential crisis from talking on Steam Chat for two hours last night with a weird reverb when I spoke so I had to repeatedly hear what my real voice sounded like.
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Get some excellent sci-fi, fantasy, and horror plugged right into your brain by joining me and some fabulous authors for a free online reading!
I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.
6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!
TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...
#SWSWQR
I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.
6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!
TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...
#SWSWQR
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 AM
Get some excellent sci-fi, fantasy, and horror plugged right into your brain by joining me and some fabulous authors for a free online reading!
I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.
6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!
TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...
#SWSWQR
I'll be reading from Possible Worlds and Other Stories and I am PUMPED.
6th Feb, 5 pm GMT!
TIckets: www.eventbrite.com/o/strong-wom...
#SWSWQR
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£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
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Please share :)
The Creatives Grant
let's make art less middle class
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February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
£500 given out to a working class writer every month.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Details in link.
Please share :)
One of my beta readers keeps flagging dialogue, like "Why are his words backwards? Who talks like this?"
And I'm like, "I dunno, b'y. I'll get right to fixin' 'er now in a once."
#Newfoundland #amwriting #books
And I'm like, "I dunno, b'y. I'll get right to fixin' 'er now in a once."
#Newfoundland #amwriting #books
a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a newfoundland and labrador flag
Alt: A man in a suit and tie (Bob Odenkirk) stands in front of a newfoundland and labrador flag
media.tenor.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:50 AM
One of my beta readers keeps flagging dialogue, like "Why are his words backwards? Who talks like this?"
And I'm like, "I dunno, b'y. I'll get right to fixin' 'er now in a once."
#Newfoundland #amwriting #books
And I'm like, "I dunno, b'y. I'll get right to fixin' 'er now in a once."
#Newfoundland #amwriting #books
Gonna be pursuing that perfection.
I can't afford to be chasing any more dreams.
I can't afford to be chasing any more dreams.
January 31, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Gonna be pursuing that perfection.
I can't afford to be chasing any more dreams.
I can't afford to be chasing any more dreams.
Yesterday, I made the best tea I'll ever make. I wish I watched what I was doing, but I make two a day & it was just another tea. As soon as I tasted it, I knew it was the Platonic ideal of tea & I'd never do better.
My missus says I can't think this way, but I know it's all downhill from here.
My missus says I can't think this way, but I know it's all downhill from here.
January 31, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Yesterday, I made the best tea I'll ever make. I wish I watched what I was doing, but I make two a day & it was just another tea. As soon as I tasted it, I knew it was the Platonic ideal of tea & I'd never do better.
My missus says I can't think this way, but I know it's all downhill from here.
My missus says I can't think this way, but I know it's all downhill from here.
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"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
January 31, 2026 at 3:22 AM
"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something
2. In one weekend, got recommended to ~10,000 readers.
I didn't see a single sale, because I don't write the UP or dark fantasy work my clients' readers wanted.
Lesson learned. Audience is absolutely everything.
#writingcommunity #writing
I didn't see a single sale, because I don't write the UP or dark fantasy work my clients' readers wanted.
Lesson learned. Audience is absolutely everything.
#writingcommunity #writing
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 AM
2. In one weekend, got recommended to ~10,000 readers.
I didn't see a single sale, because I don't write the UP or dark fantasy work my clients' readers wanted.
Lesson learned. Audience is absolutely everything.
#writingcommunity #writing
I didn't see a single sale, because I don't write the UP or dark fantasy work my clients' readers wanted.
Lesson learned. Audience is absolutely everything.
#writingcommunity #writing
1. New authors spamming #books and #queries don't make sense. Audience is everything.
When I published my first #fantasy book, I had three best-selling Urban Paranormal / dark fantasy clients offer to give me shout-outs in their newsletters. Of course I said yes. That's amazing...
💙📚 #authors
When I published my first #fantasy book, I had three best-selling Urban Paranormal / dark fantasy clients offer to give me shout-outs in their newsletters. Of course I said yes. That's amazing...
💙📚 #authors
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 AM
It was two years ago today I published the first in my Leguin-inspired Speaker Origins #fantasy series. Looking back on it now, about to publish a standalone & write the third in this series, it seems mad that I was so anxious at the time.
💙📚🪐👀 🔥
lsb337.itch.io/the-lion
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
💙📚🪐👀 🔥
lsb337.itch.io/the-lion
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 AM
It was two years ago today I published the first in my Leguin-inspired Speaker Origins #fantasy series. Looking back on it now, about to publish a standalone & write the third in this series, it seems mad that I was so anxious at the time.
💙📚🪐👀 🔥
lsb337.itch.io/the-lion
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
💙📚🪐👀 🔥
lsb337.itch.io/the-lion
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
We also never address other root problems:
1: AirBnbs
2: CFA landlords buying houses here to rent as it's too expensive in ON now. Or using them as vacation homes.
3: Companies buying up houses and renting them.
1: AirBnbs
2: CFA landlords buying houses here to rent as it's too expensive in ON now. Or using them as vacation homes.
3: Companies buying up houses and renting them.
January 30, 2026 at 10:35 PM
We also never address other root problems:
1: AirBnbs
2: CFA landlords buying houses here to rent as it's too expensive in ON now. Or using them as vacation homes.
3: Companies buying up houses and renting them.
1: AirBnbs
2: CFA landlords buying houses here to rent as it's too expensive in ON now. Or using them as vacation homes.
3: Companies buying up houses and renting them.
It has. It really has.
January 30, 2026 at 8:51 PM
It has. It really has.