Lee Burton - Author | Editor

Unserious dangerous people. The very reason the death penalty was mostly abolished.

He was tall--taller than even most other vampires--

Found the love interest

Still haven't shoveled out after the last storm...

Sucks being the better team but losing anyway.

Friendly reminder to #authors to make an acknowledgements page not just for friends & family but all the freelancers & contributors who helped along the way.

When I ask #editing clients where they got my name, it's NEVER my own ads & efforts, it's ALWAYS through recommendations & acknowledgements.

YouTube video by Snowgum Films TROLL BRIDGE | The Moving Picture

I've bounced off of every adaptation of Pratchett's work I've ever tried to watch, but I think Troll Bridge captures the tone and the story perfectly. Beautifully done.

#Pratchett #books #booksky #amreading #GNUTERRY

A screenshot of a Kate Beaton comic, of a man looking out a window and saying "The Canadians got all fucked up on hockey."

Relevant lately.

#Canada #hockey #Olympics #Olympics2026

(Relevant Kate Beatontry: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...)

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Did you see what's going on at the library? They think they're so cool.

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It's kinda messed up that I have to switch to adding colons in clients' books instead as they're afraid they'll get accused of using AI if there's too many em dashes.

#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity

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Any economists out there tracking the size of books as an indicator of economic stability?

Big #books mean more bang for your buck, and it seems to me that big books are very much back in vogue lately.

#booksky #amreading

Because they know it's gonna sound like a dream of the Third Reich.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

YouTube video by Snowgum Films TROLL BRIDGE | The Moving Picture

I've bounced off of every adaptation of Pratchett's work I've ever tried to watch, but I think Troll Bridge captures the tone and the story perfectly. Beautifully done.

#Pratchett #books #booksky #amreading #GNUTERRY

Some of the more homer broadcasts are brutal too. Looking at you, Boston.

A few years back, it was revealed that Russia's misinformation strategy was to promote the extreme views of both sides -- to hype the right and divide the left. Now, with Bluesky's stringent blocking tools easily curtailing right-wing morons, I suspect they're leaning the other way for division.

Photo of a man in a green shirt and jeans spinning a pizza on a set, in front of a table that reads United States Pizza Team. From the Acrobatic Pizza Trials on The Ocho.

I heard the #Olympics was a good time to watch sports you don't usually see that often, and I was not disappointed.

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HELLO GREAT AUTHOR DO YOU HAVE AN EFFECTIVE PROMOTION STRATEGY FOR YOUR BOOK!!??11 WOULD YOU BE 0PEN FOR A BRI3F CH@TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

#amwriting #amediting #writingcommunity #effectivepromotionstrategy

Hot Fuzz is my favorite Cate Blanchett movie.

#moviesky #filmsky

Garbage pickup coming four hours earlier than normal is some bullllllllllllshit.

I was scrolling past this and me missus nudged me and said, "That's hip-hop."

w/ @jcparsons.bsky.social

I hope it was a little poorly spelled note shoved under the bedroom door.

Illustration of Bilbo Baggins having a smoke from the Bulgarian edition of the Hobbit. From Tolkien.com.pl / Babel Hobbits

Illustration of Gollum in a boat, with flipper-like feet and big eyes. From Tolkien.com.pl / Babel Hobbits

I'm much more scared of Bulgarian Bilbo than I am of Russian Gollum.

#books #booksky #hobbit #tolkien #lotr

Too bad.

Picture of the front cover of the 1966 edition of The Hobbit, depicting snowcapped trees backing a green forest, beneath a white moon.

Inside cover of the 1966 cover of The Hobbit. The yellow endpaper has been removed from the right side. The left contains the book's introduction. It has a price of $4.95.

I totally agree, on both fronts. I was writing a little FB post today about my own 1966 copy of the Hobbit, and realized I should fact-check one of the pictures I was posting.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1GFo...

That's how I found that page. I'm gonna have some fun with it, I can tell. #LOTR 💙📚

Bilbo, wielding a sword, sitting next to Gollum, who looks vaguely fishlike and metallic, with a crazed expression on his face. From the Bulgarian edition of the Hobbit: https://tolkien.com.pl/hobbit/collection/hobbit-bulgarian-1975-1st.php#photo

Bulgarian Bilbo is a little more demure with Bulgarian Gollum, probably because Bulgarian Gollum is approaching him to play the riddle game at 2AM at a gas station and Bilbo just wants to buy a Gatorade and a bag of chips and go home and sleep it off, ya know.

Illustration of Gollum navigating a makeshift boat with a pointed stick wit a forked top. He is tall and big-eyed, and wearing a hat made of what looks like seaweed. From https://tolkien.com.pl/hobbit/collection/hobbit-swedish-1962.php#photo

I do enjoy that one as well. I came across this site today that has all Hobbit illustrations, including Tove Jansson's. I started taking a look b/c Tolkien had to revise for the 2nd edition when he didn't have a description of Gollum and illustrations got wild.

tolkien.com.pl/hobbit/colle...

Illustration of Bilbo Baggins having a smoke from the Bulgarian edition of the Hobbit. From Tolkien.com.pl / Babel Hobbits

Illustration of Gollum in a boat, with flipper-like feet and big eyes. From Tolkien.com.pl / Babel Hobbits

I'm much more scared of Bulgarian Bilbo than I am of Russian Gollum.

#books #booksky #hobbit #tolkien #lotr

My wife isn't a huge gamer, but she LOVED getting to play as Jesse, who's a mature professional woman that doesn't look like she was designed with 14YO nude-mod gamers in mind.

She's so bummed it's Dylan for the sequel that she probably won't bother playing.

I'm not saying that's not NOT what I don't do for not making much money anyway.

But I did also have a couple days in university where I got sick of reading the books I was supposed to and stayed home that day and read the books that I wanted to read.

Bleh, I have so many money words to read today when it would be really nice to kick back and just enjoy some non-money words. Also nachos.