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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 · 2d

mid-14c., "large;" early 15c., "thick," also "coarse, plain, simple," from Old French **os "big, thick, fat; tall; strong, powerful; pregnant; coarse, rude, awkward; ominous, important; arrogant" (11c.), from Late Latin **ossus "thick, coarse" (of food or mind), in Medieval Latin "great, big"

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 2d

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#Etymology

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 2d

Go big or go home.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

1886, "devious and spiteful," from **t (n.) + -y (2). Slightly earlier in this sense was cattish. The meaning "pertaining to **ts" is from 1902.

Old English *att (c. 700) "domestic *at," from West Germanic (c. 400-450), from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩1886, from Old English.

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Great books and how they stay with you.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Great books and how they stay with you.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

THE BOOKKEEPER’S SKULL hits 300!

Thank you dear readers! - and a special thank you from Gambol. 🤡🤡🤡

#authorslife #warhammercommunity #warhammer40k #minkalesk #warhammerhorror

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Though it’s the conquests that count.

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 4d

Blending storylines.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 4d

1889, "a hoax, deception," from **ouf (1884), name of a game invented or revived by British comedian Arthur Roberts (1852-1933). The specific sense of "a parody, satirical skit or play" is recorded by 1920, from verb in this sense (1914).

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 4d

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩1889, derived from game name.

#etymology

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 4d

It’s mushroom season!

#authorslife #foraging #wildmushrooms

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

lol! yes.

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

On this day in 1066 - the end of Anglo Saxon England.

#amwriting #battleofhastings #haroldgodwinson #normanconquest

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

The heart of conflict.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

mid-15c., "place of assembly in ancient Rome," from Latin ****m "marketplace, open space, public place," apparently akin to foris, foras "out of doors, outside" (from PIE root *dhwer- "door, doorway"). The sense of "assembly, place for public discussion" is recorded by 1680s.

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

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#Etymology

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 5d

All the news from your favourite publishing house...!

The Black Librarian @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Finally, folks mentioned this week also include:

@strangehorizons.bsky.social @ruadanbooks.bsky.social @paulkane.bsky.social @justinhillauthor.bsky.social @markalatham.bsky.social @mikebrooks668.bsky.social

#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Goonhammer @goonhammer.com · 6d

The Black Library Weekly is here with Jay looking at the upcoming schedule from GW fiction and also sharing a six-pack this week with Noah Van Nguyen.

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

"close growth of **** on the chin and lower face, normally characteristic of an adult male" (distinguished in Modern English from the ***tache), Old English ***rd "**ard," from Proto-Germanic *bard (source also of Old Frisian berd, Middle Dutch baert, Old High German bart, German bart).

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 6d

The joy of saying exactly what you mean.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Imperial Fists vs Night Lords

#warhammercommunity #hardforheresy #warhammer30k

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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 9d

Editorial ping pong

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords

Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 9d

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).