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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
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🎤 Podcaster
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🎓 PhD
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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
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Wordle 1,629 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1570s from Persian, via Turkish and Dutch or German or French.

#Etmology
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Black Library Book of the Year. Many great books to choose from!

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Vote for your favourite Black Library book of 2025
May the best book win.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Wordle 1,628 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩late 13c. from Old French.

A Treebeard word.

#etymology
December 3, 2025 at 8:36 AM
December 2, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Wordle 1,627 5/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩c.1600 from Greek, via Latin.

#etymology
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Christmas is coming… 😱😱😱

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Wordle 1,626 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Old English, with a bit of Old Norse influence.

#etymology
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Justin Hill
A bit of a cheat's post today... While I sleep/eat/find things to keep my youngest occupied today, you get some quick thoughts on Rob Sanders' 'Archaon: Everchosen'

graemesff.blogspot.com/2014/07/archaon-everchosen-rob-sanders-black.html
'Archaon: Everchosen' - Rob Sanders (Black Library)
In the north of the world the forces of Chaos gather, awaiting their moment to strike. At their head is the Everchosen, the warrior who wi...
graemesff.blogspot.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
November 28, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Some of my favourite days end like this…
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Wordle 1,621 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mid 14c. of unknown origin. Idea that it is Old English diminutive "etymologically and chronologically inadmissible" [OED].

Meaning has evolved somewhat.

#etymology
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A lot on this week: none of it writing.

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Reposted by Justin Hill
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Wordle 1,620 3/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Anglo French legal language derived from Latin.

#etymology
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
A little shellshocked after yesterday. But the story goes on.

##authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Wordle 1,619 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Old English, pronunciation and meaning unchanged through time.

#etymology
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Hell's Last paperback, on sale today.

Cadia has fallen. Last to escape the hell that was the Thirteenth Black Crusade's destruction of their home world, the Cadian 101st are bloodied...

www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/m...

#MinkaLesk #CadiaStands #warhammer40k
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November 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Signed editions at Warhammer World!

#minkalesk #cadiastands
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The things I do to get ideas…

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
day for inspiration.

@exhibitiononscreen

#authorslife #amwriting #novelwriting #worldswithwords
November 19, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Minka Lesk: HELL'S LAST in paperback - pre orders this Saturday.

'When a new threat surges through the Gallows Cluster, jeopardising the stability of the entire warfront, the 101st are thrown into the breach...

#MinkaLesk #CadiaStands #warhammer40k #WarhammerCommunity
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
First Q&A coming up...

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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Wordle 1,613 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩mid-15c. from Latin, via Old French.

#etymology
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM