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Lee Burton - Author | Editor
@leeburton.bsky.social
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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
Screenshot of the first phone-read page of The Lion. The first line reads, *Jad woke with a start. Get up. He knew better than to fall asleep. Where is the lion?*
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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.
Photo of a beardo taking a picture wearing a comfy sweater over a tshirt of a wizard with glowing eyes holding a wand with a brilliant yellow tip.
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Came across this existentially anxious note that read, "True Change, noo," on my parents' fridge.
A handwritten note that reads "True Change Noo 20th, 930."
November 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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I mean, on page one and this is already amazing.

#amreading #scifi #books #BeautifulSchlock #booksky
First paragraph of David Weber's To Challenge Heaven, in which there is Vlad Drakulya and spaceships.
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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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
Copy of To Challenge Heaven by David Weber and Chris Kennedy, showing a space ship zooming through blue hyperspace.
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Pairs great with fun-sized Smarties.

💙📚 #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky #booklovers

itch.io/s/163851/hal...
Cover of Strayed, Speaker Origins book two, depicting a hand against a purple background. Upon the hand is a map of relevant places from the story, while a lake spills off the palm.
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Staying with fam and I tried to sneak this creature upstairs while no one was home, but she just yelled at me in the basement doorway until I came downstairs to play.

#HazelTheInternKitty #CatsOfBluesky #SoundOn
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today is my missus', @jcparsons.bsky.social, birthday, so I'll wait till tomorrow to regale her with this old joke book of mine I found at my parents' house.

Q: "What is yellow and goes, 'putt, putt putt'?"
A: "An outboard lemon."

:D
A copy of "The Bionic Banana" joke book, depicting a cartoon of a banana lifting an elephant over its head. The caption says, "You'll go bananas over these riddles with appeal." Jokes from the inside of The Bionic Banana. The left leaf shows a picture of a lemon with an outboard motor. The right leaf has jokes such as, "What is yellow and goes putt, putt, putt. An outboard lemon."
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A small creature with a sleepy smush-face has been beamed to my location.

#HazelTheInternKitty #CatsOfBluesky
A very fuzzy torbie kitty lies in a sunbeam through a door's transom, on a carpet, next to a yellow rug.
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I did it, chat -- made it to the new local bookstore that's only open 12-4. Though I did cock one thing up. See if you can spot it. 🧡📚
Copy of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Memory, depicking a space ship moving away from a planet, behind which the sun is peeking out from. On the book is two loyalty cards.
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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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
Tag line for Ocean's Edge Editing, which reads Give me your double negatives, your comma splices, your run-on sentences, yearning to breathe free. Friendly inquiries encouraged.
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Think it's finally time to get this bad boy out there. And by "bad boy" I mean wistfully sincere and hopefully thought-to-be imaginative and feel-good #fantasy novel in my #SpeakerTimeline series.
Printed copy of my latest book, Amends to the Everlasting.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Heck no. I suspect I got that one and The Karate Kid at an earlier Scholastic fair at school.

You, too, can be the proud owner of Alex Gets the Business.

www.amazon.com/Family-Ties-...
Picture of a book, Family Ties, Alex Gets the Business, placed atop a laptop showing a Bluesky post questioning its validity.
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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I think I found the two pages that best summarize the entire plot.
A page spread of the novelization of Gremlins 2, showing the end of chapter 18 and the start of chapter 19.
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have an assortment of the novelization of a good few movies.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬

The piece de resistance. How wacky do you think this book is?
The novelization of the movie Gremlins 2.
October 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have an assortment of the novelization of a good few movies.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬

I remember being disappointed by the character development in the movie of Red Heat :D
The novelization of a few movies, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Red Heat, an episode of Family Ties, and Inner Space.
October 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have an assortment of the novelization of a good few movies.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬

The books expanded on characters & sometimes I remember stuff that just wasn't in the movies.
The novelization of three movies, Back to the Future I and II, and Batman.
October 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have an assortment of the novelization of a good few movies.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬

Air America wasn't the movie, which I found annoying. Robocop II, so much gore and drugs.
The novelization of three movies, Air America, Robocop 2, and ET.
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have an assortment of the novelization of a good few movies.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬

I guarantee some of the details in Total Recall and Rambo III weren't for kids.
The novelization of three movies, on a shelf, Rambo III, Total Recall, and Ghostbusters II.
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Watching 80s-90s movies with me missus, @jcparsons.bsky.social, and every so often I'd be like, "I have the novelization of that." Visiting fam now and digging through my closet, I have proof.

A very specific era. To be honest, I dunno if all of these were kid appropriate.🧡🚀📚 #books 🎬
Three books on a shelf, Dick Tracy, Another 48 hours depicting Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, and The Karate Kid with Pat Morita and Ralph Macchio.
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Date and time is probably related to the last time I fired it up.

The controls are surprisingly responsive, with great haptic feedback and satisfying clicky noises, if a little Windows 98.
Creative Zen music player sitting on a chair, showing the date as December 7th, 2008, which was a Sunday. Creative Zen music player showing a video of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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My Creative Zen from nearly 20 years ago is alive! All my music from that time was entombed in there when a friend jammed her ipod charger into it.

I spent most of that summer living in a trailer in the woods working a 2-man brushing crew. Man, those #movies got us through the evenings. 🎵 🎶
Picture of a Creative Zen Vision: M, music player, on a chair, showing the loading screen. Picture of a Creative Zen Vision: M, music player, on a chair, showing the movies loaded onto it. Picture of a Creative Zen Vision: M, music player, on a chair, showing the movies loaded onto it. Picture of a Creative Zen Vision: M, music player, on a chair, showing the specs: 28 gigs total, 17 remaining. 3410 tracks over 430 albums.
October 20, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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I was gonna take a jaunt and buy the follow-up to Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin -- though it unnerves me to no end -- but the new small local book store is closed Mon-Tue. 'Spose I'll wait rather than go to Coles.

#frigginspiders #frigginslimemoldzombies 🧡🚀📚 #amreading
The cover of Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin" depicting a space station being approached by a ship, below a planet eclipsing a sun.
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Visiting fam and now that I have a rare day off I sorta wish I had brought a game controller with me. 🎮

I wonder if I could configure these bad boys for Elden Ring...
Two old game joysticks for a Commodore, black with red buttons, sit on a wooden shelf.
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Turned the page and spied a "typographical river."

#books #booknerds
A picture of a page of a book where the spaces between words have aligned with spaces in other lines around it to make a blank "river" across the page.
October 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM