Lee Burton - Author | Editor

Home again. And able to have a more relaxed look at these pots. Here's an ash glaze (that we call Miso Gravy) on a ship mug. Vinny's happy to have me home.

#pottery #ceramics #canadianceramics #wildglaze #woodfiredpottery

I started this comment to say that they don't understand these things have been publicly debated and decided upon long ago, but I've had had to circle back and conclude that no, they understand, they just want to undercut that and say awful shit to be edgy and special.

Hockey draft night is that special night of the year where you have to decide if you wanna hang out and make it a fun experience with a buddy or two or buckle down and really focus so you can smoke those losers.

homer simpson sits at a table with a box of gummy bears in front of him ALT: homer simpson sits at a table with a box of gummy bears in front of him

Why yes, I am still revising my non-linear #book after good critical feedback. Why do you ask?

#amwriting #books #booksky

A very fuzzy torbie kitty lying on her back showing her belly, on a beige carpet next to a scratcher and a nondescript knitted tube she sometimes carries about the house.

Seriously.

She would visit and #HazelTheInternKitty would purr across the room & she'd be like "Why is she purring like that?" And I'd be like, "She is a Muppet."

Then she'd be like, "Why is she looking at me like that? Is she going to attack?" And I'd be like, "No, she is a Muppet."

Historians who write books, please a) set up your own author website, independent of your university profile and b) get some professional headshots taken. Love, your friendly neighborhood podcaster.

a man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt is holding something in his hands . ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a white t-shirt is holding something in his hands .

MS Word's new attitude towards autocorrecting apostrophes.

#writingcommunity #amwriting #amediting #was'n't'

a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone while walking down a wet sidewalk . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking on a cell phone while walking down a wet sidewalk .

Played pickleball for the first time yesterday. Sorta forgot that if you're in your forties and your job is being an extraordinarily literate potato, maybe cool it on the lunges.

Coppola’s Dracula is the best adaptation of the text but I think Herzog’s Nosferatu perfects the subtext. So much 19th-c horror (Frankenstein, Jekyll/Hyde) is about fear of scientific acceleration but Dracula is the exact opposite, a fear that the supplanted Old World will literally bite back

A photo of a laptop showing a fuzzy torbie kitty sitting on a stool in front of a TV with a skeleton sitting in a basket behind her -- above which is a TV screen showing hockey players skating away from camera.

Updating my mom's laptop I gave her after I bought a new one -- while watching Goon because I live in Canada and Goon is on TV -- and remembering that my mom was terrified of #HazelTheInternKitty so I included a background folder of a hundred adorable photos of her.

#CatsOfBluesky

A sex offender registry but for people with loud motorcycles and instead of going door to door to announce they live there they have to have a giant air horn pointing at their house that neighbors are allowed to trigger once a day.

a toy boat is driving down a street with people in the back ALT: a toy boat is driving down a street with people in the back

Every porch pirate anticipating the new revenue.

Might shake a few good ideas loose.

A fuzzy white kitten rests its front paws on an arm holding a pen hovering over a list.

“Tuna?”
“Yes.”
“Catnip?”
“On the list.”
“What about-“
“Relax Alvin, I got this.”

Binging as many albums as humanly possible for Bandcamp Friday and buying shit

Visiting fam, and the 'rents have gone out for the evening, and it's just like being at home alone when I was a teenager again, except instead of blasting some Metallica, without the loud TVs blaring I can finally get some serious work done.

#amediting #amwriting #books

I'm starting to figure out that #amediting my own book is taking longer than normal as it doesn't quite have a linear storyline.

It's like, here's the plot: ABC GIJ DEF KLM. And I got H to put in, and I'm just zipping through the narrative again and again like WHERE THE FACK DID I PUT G?

Also, you're not using alt text, and I'm not sure if there's a feature to filter out people who don't add alt text, but there's a lot of people who filter out people who don't use alt text.

Didn't they axe the cybersecurity division right away?

If there was anything that told me the admin was compromised, it was that. It was like saying, "Meh, we don't need an air force" if it were 1955.

#nlpoli #newfoundland

Yeah, it's basically coming up with novel ways of saying, "Nobody wants to steal your book. Consider yourself lucky if anybody even reads it."

A screenshot of The Oxford English Dictionary's page for "piss-flaps" which denotes the earliest use from the writing of J. Goodall, in the 1970s.

EDIT: Was it Jane Goodall's awful secret erotica?

I've only heard that phrase used in NL.

Caveat: NL is the only place I've worked with the sorts of folks who would use a phrase like that.

And definitely don't trust the specific writing tips, say, slipped under your door in the middle of the night, written in scratchy mirror writing.

sucka.

And you didn't even know about Throom, Muslix is Gamic.

Over 14 years of freelance #editing, I've been asked many times what assurances I can give that I won't steal a client's #book. These days I reply that stealing takes work. It's much easier to simply generate a whole new book from your blurb & sell that. 🧡📚

I dunno if people find it reassuring :)

I've been getting payments in Canada via PayPal for a while without a $10 threshold. I don't make much money from my books, but it's nice to see a few bucks every now and then. Having to wait for $10 on D2D might be a year :)

*And it seems their customer service is entirely AI based...*

You may have hit on the heart of the problem right there.

I'm shocked they came this far into eastern Canada. That's a show I would love to see. That would have been peak.

Not gonna lie, that's kinda impressive.