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
Hoo boy, writing the "*pushes sleeves back* 'Time for some straight talk'" email with a potential editing client about their expectations, that can take a while to write, and be pretty draining.
#amediting #editor #BooksBooksBooks
#amediting #editor #BooksBooksBooks
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Hoo boy, writing the "*pushes sleeves back* 'Time for some straight talk'" email with a potential editing client about their expectations, that can take a while to write, and be pretty draining.
#amediting #editor #BooksBooksBooks
#amediting #editor #BooksBooksBooks
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Me following my cat around with a tissue because she's being chased by a dingleberry like "I'm not trying to rob you, Bilbo," and she's like...
#CatsofBluesky #LOTR #HazelTheInternKitty #HazelsBane
#CatsofBluesky #LOTR #HazelTheInternKitty #HazelsBane
a man talking to a woman with the words you want it for yourself written in pink
Alt: Bilbo talking to Gandalf, saying, "You want it for yourself," after Gandalf asks him for the One Ring.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Me following my cat around with a tissue because she's being chased by a dingleberry like "I'm not trying to rob you, Bilbo," and she's like...
#CatsofBluesky #LOTR #HazelTheInternKitty #HazelsBane
#CatsofBluesky #LOTR #HazelTheInternKitty #HazelsBane
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This is delightful. A nun came up with most of these 500 years ago. 😮
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b...
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b...
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
Language is an instrument of great precision and poignancy — our best tool for telling each other what the world is and what we are, for conveying the blueness of blue and the wonder of being…
www.themarginalian.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is delightful. A nun came up with most of these 500 years ago. 😮
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b...
A Parliament of Owls and a Murder of Crows: How Groups of Birds Got Their Names, with Wondrous Vintage Illustrations by Brian Wildsmith
www.themarginalian.org/2024/01/04/b...
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
So I wrote to Amazon KDP & I told them I had a problem. The numbers on my book sale page will sometimes go up & then stop. They're supposed to keep going up. They told me to get in touch with some guy named "Mark Keeting" or somebody. Is he some kinda number guru? DAE?
#amwriting #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingcommunity
November 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
So I wrote to Amazon KDP & I told them I had a problem. The numbers on my book sale page will sometimes go up & then stop. They're supposed to keep going up. They told me to get in touch with some guy named "Mark Keeting" or somebody. Is he some kinda number guru? DAE?
#amwriting #writingcommunity
#amwriting #writingcommunity
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Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Something I do wish non-historians would internalise is that (modern) historians are not (generally) just making shit up. We do in fact have sources and evidence and proof of things which have happened in the past
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My latest mystery thriller set in Newfoundland and Labrador is here! The e-book will be launched in December 5.
#newfoundland #thriller
#newfoundland #thriller
November 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My latest mystery thriller set in Newfoundland and Labrador is here! The e-book will be launched in December 5.
#newfoundland #thriller
#newfoundland #thriller
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