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Justin Hill

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🏆 Twice nom. for Booker Prize 📚 Winner Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask, & Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes 💂‍♀️Creator Minka Lesk 🌳 Gardener 🥂 Chef 🎩 Hat wearer 🎤 Podcaster 🎲 Gamer 🎓 PhD

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · Mar 6

As it's World Book Day - this book changed my life.

...was ten years old and Lord of the Rings made me want to grow up and become and author.

#JRRTolkien #LordOfTheRings #AuthorsLife #WorldBookDay

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 1h

The joy of saying exactly what you mean.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Imperial Fists vs Night Lords

#warhammercommunity #hardforheresy #warhammer30k

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Editorial ping pong

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

mid-14c., "tool to indicate a horizontal line," from Old French ***el "a ***el" (13c.), ultimately from Latin libella "a balance, ***el" (also a monetary unit), diminutive of libra "balance, scale, unit of weight" (see Libra).

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Wordle 1,574 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩mid 14c. from Old French.

#etymology

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Keep it simple stupid.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 5d

Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Half way point?

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

late 13c., **oien, **nuien, "to harm, hurt, injure; be troublesome or vexatious to, disquiet, upset," from Anglo-French anuier, Old French enoiier "to weary, vex, anger," anuier "be troublesome or irksome to..."

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Wordle 1,572 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩late 13c. from Late Latin, via Old French.

#etymology

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

TERMINAL OVERKILL - hits 150!

Thank you dear readers! I think my second novel for BL - and one that taught me a lot. And brought scrape to the underhive.

#Necromunda #warhammercommunity #scrape #fatbergs

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

To reach this moment…

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

Always exciting to his this moment.

#authorslife #amwriting

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

The core talent you need.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

1938, coined, according to DuPont, from a random generic syllable **l- + -on, a common ending in fiber names (compare rayon and later Dacron), said to be ultimately from cotton.

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Wordle 1,571 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩1938. A made up word.

#etymology

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 6d

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Moon rise this evening.

#midautumnfestival2025 #fullmoon

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

Filling the whole cast.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 7d

late 15c., "to divert the attention, beguile, delude," from Old French **user "fool, tease, hoax, entrap; make fun of," literally "cause to muse" (as a distraction), from a "at, to" (from Latin ad, but here probably a causal prefix) + muser "ponder, stare fixedly" (see muse (v.)).

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Wordle 1,570 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Late 15c. - although the original English senses are now obsolete.

#etymology

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 7d

Wishing my Chinese friends and followers a very happy Mid Autumn Festival!

a full moon in a dark night sky with clouds and stars

ALT: a full moon in a dark night sky with clouds and stars

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing like a walk in a storm. Just keep away from trees.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 10d

PILGRIMS OF FIRE hits a double century!

Thank you, dear readers!

Some of my favourite characters in this novel. Was a learning experience in many ways!

#authorslife #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #adeptasororitas #sistersofbattle