Lee Burton - Author | Editor
@leeburton.bsky.social
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Ocean's Edge is now booking both developmental and copy & line editing slots for January and February.
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
Sure, it's been a hot minute.
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
First wee bit of The Lion, first in my Speaker Origins fantasy series.
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
🧡🚀📚 #books #wizards #reading #amreading
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
First wee bit of The Lion, first in my Speaker Origins fantasy series.
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
🧡🚀📚 #books #wizards #reading #amreading
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Sure, it's been a hot minute.
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
First wee bit of The Lion, first in my Speaker Origins fantasy series.
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
🧡🚀📚 #books #wizards #reading #amreading
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want.
First wee bit of The Lion, first in my Speaker Origins fantasy series.
books2read.com/u/bWAzpY
🧡🚀📚 #books #wizards #reading #amreading
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I just found out Tate McCrae and Addison Ray are two completely different people.
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I just found out Tate McCrae and Addison Ray are two completely different people.
Working on a corollary, or like ... a natural law of freelance #editing. Maybe call it the "Inverse Email Rule," or "Exponential Query Conundrum..."
Something like "The shorter the query email, the longer, more detailed the required response..."
#amediting #writingcommunity #books
Something like "The shorter the query email, the longer, more detailed the required response..."
#amediting #writingcommunity #books
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Working on a corollary, or like ... a natural law of freelance #editing. Maybe call it the "Inverse Email Rule," or "Exponential Query Conundrum..."
Something like "The shorter the query email, the longer, more detailed the required response..."
#amediting #writingcommunity #books
Something like "The shorter the query email, the longer, more detailed the required response..."
#amediting #writingcommunity #books
Went to the kitchen to get my smol cat friend her midnight snack, but my missus @jcparsons.bsky.social was having a dance party & making late, late supper, & I always scare the bejesus outta her when she has her earbuds in, & it looked like a really jammin' dance party, so sorry, kitty, food soon...
November 11, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Went to the kitchen to get my smol cat friend her midnight snack, but my missus @jcparsons.bsky.social was having a dance party & making late, late supper, & I always scare the bejesus outta her when she has her earbuds in, & it looked like a really jammin' dance party, so sorry, kitty, food soon...
I'm begging the manufacturer of my cat's favorite treats to improve the ziplock seal on their bags. I feel like I'm failing some kinda high-stress intelligence test while I'm standing there crinkling the bag, struggling to get it closed, and she's big-eyed staring at me.
#catsofbluesky
#catsofbluesky
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I'm begging the manufacturer of my cat's favorite treats to improve the ziplock seal on their bags. I feel like I'm failing some kinda high-stress intelligence test while I'm standing there crinkling the bag, struggling to get it closed, and she's big-eyed staring at me.
#catsofbluesky
#catsofbluesky
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“Saturday began with my new boyfriend disappearing in front of my eyes. Not a good start for the day, to be honest.”
Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on
Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html
#urbanfantasy #booksky
Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on
Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html
#urbanfantasy #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“Saturday began with my new boyfriend disappearing in front of my eyes. Not a good start for the day, to be honest.”
Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on
Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html
#urbanfantasy #booksky
Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on
Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6
Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91
Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html
#urbanfantasy #booksky
I think that before you're done your book, you should do a "confidence" pass, where you delete extraneous "thats," & "thens" & "ands" from the starts of sentences where they're only a crutch. Maybe even throw in a few semi-colons in place of a handful of safe "becauses." You can do it.
#amediting
#amediting
November 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I think that before you're done your book, you should do a "confidence" pass, where you delete extraneous "thats," & "thens" & "ands" from the starts of sentences where they're only a crutch. Maybe even throw in a few semi-colons in place of a handful of safe "becauses." You can do it.
#amediting
#amediting
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Writers are so afraid of writing bad art they’ll write nothing which is so much worse.
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Writers are so afraid of writing bad art they’ll write nothing which is so much worse.
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🌸beep boop 🌸
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🌸beep boop 🌸
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
For no reason at all
50% off all my books on itch
Or $20 for everything
Now through midnight EST Sunday 11/9
Go nuts!
itch.io/s/167176/hal...
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Halifax, Nova Scotia DM if any would like to buy a signed print copy of Fantasy Tales. I'm doing meet ups this weekend to connect with readers. How better for others to question sanity when they see us making not secret ways to find a home for my book in parking lots. lol
Shipping avail too. DM me.
Shipping avail too. DM me.
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Halifax, Nova Scotia DM if any would like to buy a signed print copy of Fantasy Tales. I'm doing meet ups this weekend to connect with readers. How better for others to question sanity when they see us making not secret ways to find a home for my book in parking lots. lol
Shipping avail too. DM me.
Shipping avail too. DM me.
Everyone loves conjuring up ideas for a new book, putting it all together, & I do too of course, but I also love one of the last steps, doing a bit of research, adding color, upping the special effects budget, & really tying little details together & making things pop.
#amwriting #fantasy #books
#amwriting #fantasy #books
November 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Everyone loves conjuring up ideas for a new book, putting it all together, & I do too of course, but I also love one of the last steps, doing a bit of research, adding color, upping the special effects budget, & really tying little details together & making things pop.
#amwriting #fantasy #books
#amwriting #fantasy #books
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Ocean's Edge is now booking both developmental and copy & line editing slots for January and February.
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ocean's Edge is now booking both developmental and copy & line editing slots for January and February.
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
I live in Canada & invoice in CAD, good value for my American & European clients.
Fourteen years editing Indies.
www.oceansedgeediting.com/services.html
#amediting #editor #writingcommunity
I quite liked the word "noontide" in my book set in the medieval era. A little color. But ... for consistency I feel like I'd have to go through & substitute like twenty instances of "eventide" & "morningtide," which ... nope. Feels like going from a tip of the hat to the era to donning a fedora.
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I quite liked the word "noontide" in my book set in the medieval era. A little color. But ... for consistency I feel like I'd have to go through & substitute like twenty instances of "eventide" & "morningtide," which ... nope. Feels like going from a tip of the hat to the era to donning a fedora.
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solving captchas like
#WizardWednesday
#WizardWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
solving captchas like
#WizardWednesday
#WizardWednesday
Pic I meant to post last month to note #WizardWednesday, the good chill in the air at the start of sweater weather, of course my own wizardly #fantasy book series, & some shilling for @ourfakehistory.bsky.social in the meantime -- don't have the episode yet but bought the shirt immediately.
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Pic I meant to post last month to note #WizardWednesday, the good chill in the air at the start of sweater weather, of course my own wizardly #fantasy book series, & some shilling for @ourfakehistory.bsky.social in the meantime -- don't have the episode yet but bought the shirt immediately.
Came across this existentially anxious note that read, "True Change, noo," on my parents' fridge.
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Came across this existentially anxious note that read, "True Change, noo," on my parents' fridge.
If you're a politician voting against abolishing Daylight Savings Time, you should be required to come to my house every day for two weeks afterward & spend an hour in the morning & an hour at night explaining to my disappointed smol friend that she's wrong, she can't eat right now.
#CatsOfBluesky
#CatsOfBluesky
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you're a politician voting against abolishing Daylight Savings Time, you should be required to come to my house every day for two weeks afterward & spend an hour in the morning & an hour at night explaining to my disappointed smol friend that she's wrong, she can't eat right now.
#CatsOfBluesky
#CatsOfBluesky
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Paperbacks of Season to Be Witched arrived! I’m happy with the quality.
November 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Paperbacks of Season to Be Witched arrived! I’m happy with the quality.
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It's calm-ish out there now, but don't let that fool you. A power-house of a storm is on the way, and #nlwx will deteriorate quickly as the day progresses.
www.sheerrweather.ca/forecasts/tu...
www.sheerrweather.ca/forecasts/tu...
Tuesday Morning Weather Brief — November 4, 2025 — Sheerr Weather
An intense area of low pressure will develop south of Newfoundland and track over the Island today, bringing wind, rain, snow, and coastal flooding to the Province through mid-week.
www.sheerrweather.ca
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
It's calm-ish out there now, but don't let that fool you. A power-house of a storm is on the way, and #nlwx will deteriorate quickly as the day progresses.
www.sheerrweather.ca/forecasts/tu...
www.sheerrweather.ca/forecasts/tu...
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“Performative reading” is the anxiety of an illiterate culture
November 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Performative reading” is the anxiety of an illiterate culture
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
And if the book you want isn't in your local library, and isn't even in a library in your province, all libraries in Canada are technically part of the same system and you can get the book through interprovincial loan.
#amreading #library #books #canada
#amreading #library #books #canada
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
And if the book you want isn't in your local library, and isn't even in a library in your province, all libraries in Canada are technically part of the same system and you can get the book through interprovincial loan.
#amreading #library #books #canada
#amreading #library #books #canada
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Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Please check your kid’s Halloween candy tonight. Apparently requests for a synopsis are being hidden in candy bars.
Pairs great with fun-sized Smarties.
💙📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
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💙📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
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November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Pairs great with fun-sized Smarties.
💙📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
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💙📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers
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