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Justin Hill

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Author ⚔️ Minka Lesk • Warhammer 40K • Vikings 📖 Booker ×3 • Maugham • Faber • Trask 🎓 PhD 🌳 Gardener 🎨 Miniatures 🍷 Cook 🎩 Hats 🎤 @RockPaperSwords Rep: @AevitasUK Patreon: www.patreon.com/cw/justinhillauthor

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 3h
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 7h
Making Act 1 longer. #authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
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Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 8h
BLACK LIBRARY WEEKLY No big story this week, but PLENTY of smaller ones. Plus, this month's book giveaway is not to be missed! #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary www.warhammerwordforge.com/p/black-libr...
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Black Library Weekly: Marking a Milestone
Plus: Games Workshop appears to learn a costly lesson
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 13h
'What results is a deeply layered and terrifically-written story of the oldest Astartes in the Imperium- and a compelling case for Hill's best work to date.' Delighted! Thanks @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social - love to read this response to a creative work! And all the thoughts on the author's note.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 15h
Wordle 1,934 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩1773, named after a Red Sea port. #etymology
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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While I'm not in the business of selling books for Games Workshop, nevertheless comments like this on my reviews (this one for Bjorn, the Fell-Handed by @justinhillauthor.bsky.social on @tabletopbattles.com) always manage to bring me a little joy all the same. #Warhammer #BlackLibrary #BookSky
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wordle 1,931 4/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 From Medieval Latin, via Anglo French. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Section by section. #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wordle 1,930 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1920s. Lawyers for hotel chain asked that this word be deleted from the dictionary. #Etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Back to the beginning. #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Anglo French word, from Latin, replacing its Old English alternative. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What happens next? I wonder… #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
…and 20th novel delivered! #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,928 3/6 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Acronym of 1952 patent.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New addition to the bookshelf of doom!
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wordle 1,927 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩From Anglo-French. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When writers write about your hometown #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #worldswithwords #stamfordbridge1066
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John Sollitto @johnsollitto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So close to the next sales milestone for Scholarguard! Care to help me cross that finish line? I promise you'll have fun with Hunter as he goes on his first major adventure! #booksky #writersky #indiebooks #indieauthors #fantasybooks a.co/d/04tzO0dQ
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the still hour after midnight and under the cover of darkness, Gandalf and Shadowfax cross the river Greyflood at the ford of Tharbad. They are now only two days south of Hobbiton.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just Fancy That! Earl Spencer and the Daily Mail. From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nine years ago today, CADIA STANDS was published. Here’s where the adventure began. #CadiaStands #Warhammer40000 #Warhammer40K #BlackLibrary #minkalesk
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wordle 1,922 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Old English, meaning and spelling pretty much unchanged, though fairly archaic speach now. #etymology
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Sharon Bennett Connolly @thehistorybits.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The origins of the House of Godwin and its rise to holding numerous earldoms and, eventually, the throne itself #medievalsky historytheinterestingbits.com/2018/11/15/g...
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Gytha of Wessex and the Rise of the House of Godwin
Countess Gytha I have to admit, I expected Emma of Normandy to be the woman who stole the show with my second book, Silk and the Sword: the Women of the Norman Conquest, but I was pleasantly surpri…
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wordle 1,921 4/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not often we get a back-formation - but this word was originally a 1650s Dutch noun, later in 1680s turned into an English verb. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Quick change of plan. #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Jay “Lorehunter” Kirkman @theblacklibrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Folks mentioned in this week's column also include: @cubicle7games.bsky.social @trenchcrusade.bsky.social Black Library Readers’ Hall of Fame @arbitorian.bsky.social @miramanga.bsky.social @hormannalex.bsky.social @justinhillauthor.bsky.social #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This has got to be one of my favourite reviews of ALL TIME! LOL! CROM! 'Highly recommended for Space Wolves fans and anyone who likes epic adventures (in the same vein of Conan the Barbarian)' #SpaceWolves #ConantheBarbarian #WarhammerBooks
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Viking Anthology: Stamford Bridge 1066 - pre-orders LIVE! www.amazon.co.uk/Stamford-Bri...
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Stamford Bridge 1066: A Viking Anthology
Stamford Bridge 1066: A Viking Anthology eBook : Brun, Theodore, Donald, Angus, Dowling, Will, Gibbons, Peter, Harffy, Matthew, Hill, Justin, Hodkinson, Tim, Kingsley, M. Thomas, Kristian, Giles, Oxbrow, Mark, MJ Porter (, Eric Schumacher, Åsli & Bakkejord, Envig AS: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Earls and Earldoms in Medieval Scotland: From the Picts to c.1500 | Edited by Michael H Brown boydellandbrewer.com/book/earls-a...
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Earls and Earldoms in Medieval Scotland
Sheds new light on how the structure of Scotland as a kingdom and political society changed during the medieval period.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Old Wolf is on the hunt! 🐺 BJORN THE FELL-HANDED, has reached #2 in Amazon's Military Science Fiction bestseller chart! A huge thank you to everyone who's been listening.🙏🙏🙏 #Warhammer40K #SpaceWolves #BlackLibrary #BjorntheFellhanded
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wordle 1,916 4/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩early 15c. name of letter in alphabet, sometimes used to indicate a sentence of death. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What’s not being said… #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #writingtips #writingdialogue
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules)
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PanitsDB @paintsdb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Three more French knights painted tonight, (L-R) the comte de Dammartin, Jacques d’ Estrayelles & Renault d’ Aubigny. 28mm plastics from Victrix. I’ll get them varnished & based tomorrow.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Late heresy Luna Wolves thunder hammer centurion #Hardforheresy #horusheresy #warhammer30k #forgeworld #lunawolves
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Patrick Woodroffe’s c.1975 cover for Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War”.
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Wordle 1,915 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩this useage 1717, though word dates from late 13c, perhaps from unrecorded Old English word. Has Norwegian and Swedish cognates. #etymology
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finishing up act 1. #authorslife #amwriting #worldswithwords #novelwriting
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wednesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tuesday's @thetimes cartoon
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Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wordle 1,914 4/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Past Participle of Old English verb. #etymology
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