Lee Burton - Author | Editor
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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
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Huh. Sometimes talking to fellow writers about your writing opens up new ideas.
November 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Huh. Sometimes talking to fellow writers about your writing opens up new ideas.
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ko-fi.com/post/Dragon-...
Because obvs I have more than 300 or so characters to say about it.
I can't tell if the title is a lie or not, but I'll never tire of bad dragon puns.
(As opposed to Bad Dragon puns.)
Because obvs I have more than 300 or so characters to say about it.
I can't tell if the title is a lie or not, but I'll never tire of bad dragon puns.
(As opposed to Bad Dragon puns.)
Dragon it out: Not a Review of King Sorrow by Joe Hill
W. James Chan published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ko-fi.com/post/Dragon-...
Because obvs I have more than 300 or so characters to say about it.
I can't tell if the title is a lie or not, but I'll never tire of bad dragon puns.
(As opposed to Bad Dragon puns.)
Because obvs I have more than 300 or so characters to say about it.
I can't tell if the title is a lie or not, but I'll never tire of bad dragon puns.
(As opposed to Bad Dragon puns.)
An emoticon is just the bones of an emoji.
Also I carefully did not write "emoticon" there so as not to out myself as an old fogey.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
An emoticon is just the bones of an emoji.
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In the latest episode I explore the theory that a Welsh Prince named Madoc arrived in the New World 300 years before Columbus. This takes me down a strange rabbit hole filled with stories about Welsh speaking indigenous groups in America. Hope you dig! art19.com/shows/our-fa...
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In the latest episode I explore the theory that a Welsh Prince named Madoc arrived in the New World 300 years before Columbus. This takes me down a strange rabbit hole filled with stories about Welsh speaking indigenous groups in America. Hope you dig! art19.com/shows/our-fa...
Don't think I've ever seen a job post screw up so majorly and yet still be so apt.
I saw a job ad for "Skydiving instructor," and I was like WTF, who does that around here? Turns out it's a listing for a "Literacy Instructor" for unhoused people.
I saw a job ad for "Skydiving instructor," and I was like WTF, who does that around here? Turns out it's a listing for a "Literacy Instructor" for unhoused people.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Don't think I've ever seen a job post screw up so majorly and yet still be so apt.
I saw a job ad for "Skydiving instructor," and I was like WTF, who does that around here? Turns out it's a listing for a "Literacy Instructor" for unhoused people.
I saw a job ad for "Skydiving instructor," and I was like WTF, who does that around here? Turns out it's a listing for a "Literacy Instructor" for unhoused people.
First it looked like this. Now it looks like this.
All scribblied. But for the gooderer.
To my few glorious readers, it's time I buckle down & do the boring bits to get this out there. Been putting in fun times to make it prettified goodbookery.
🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #SpeakerTimeline
All scribblied. But for the gooderer.
To my few glorious readers, it's time I buckle down & do the boring bits to get this out there. Been putting in fun times to make it prettified goodbookery.
🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #SpeakerTimeline
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
First it looked like this. Now it looks like this.
All scribblied. But for the gooderer.
To my few glorious readers, it's time I buckle down & do the boring bits to get this out there. Been putting in fun times to make it prettified goodbookery.
🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #SpeakerTimeline
All scribblied. But for the gooderer.
To my few glorious readers, it's time I buckle down & do the boring bits to get this out there. Been putting in fun times to make it prettified goodbookery.
🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #SpeakerTimeline
This is your reminder to go look over that paragraph you wrote in your almost-polished book last night right before bed.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers
a sign that says days without nonsense hangs on a door
ALT: a sign that says days without nonsense hangs on a door
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November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is your reminder to go look over that paragraph you wrote in your almost-polished book last night right before bed.
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers
#amwriting #writingcommunity #writers
Had an #editing client respond to an email with a "reaction emoji" on my email in Gmail today.
I've been working with some of these maniacs too long.
#PsychicDamage+2 #😂
I've been working with some of these maniacs too long.
#PsychicDamage+2 #😂
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Had an #editing client respond to an email with a "reaction emoji" on my email in Gmail today.
I've been working with some of these maniacs too long.
#PsychicDamage+2 #😂
I've been working with some of these maniacs too long.
#PsychicDamage+2 #😂
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Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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November 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Let's hear from you writers, tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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#WritersLiftWednesday #Writers #Authors #WritersLift #BookSky 💙📚
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On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
🧵 1/8
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
🧵 1/8
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
On Nov. 18, 1929, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the south coast of Newfoundland.
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
🧵 1/8
It produced an eight-metre high tsunami that swept into the coast of the island.
It killed nearly 30 people.
This is the story of the Grand Banks Earthquake.
🧵 1/8
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
Just heard some missus on a video say "My flabbers are ghasted right now," and instantly recognized that's a phrase that's gonna stick with me for life.
November 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Just heard some missus on a video say "My flabbers are ghasted right now," and instantly recognized that's a phrase that's gonna stick with me for life.
Alright, I'm gonna say it: when US folks try to do a "Canadian" accent, they're just doing a bad Minnesota accent.
#IHaveNeverHeardAnybodySayAboot
#IHaveNeverHeardAnybodySayAboot
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Alright, I'm gonna say it: when US folks try to do a "Canadian" accent, they're just doing a bad Minnesota accent.
#IHaveNeverHeardAnybodySayAboot
#IHaveNeverHeardAnybodySayAboot
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