About the Snippets
Snippets are excerpts from books which have not yet been published. I started posting snippets on Baen’s Bar back in 1999 and have maintained the practice ever since. Some years ago, when I first launched this web site, I carried over the snippets and post them here. They’re also still posted on Baen’s Bar, if you prefer that venue. (Go to www,baen.com, select “Baen Community,” and then select “Baen’s Bar” from the drop-down menu.)
All of the snippets are posted in my conference, titled “Mother of Demons.” They can sometimes also be found in other conferences, depending on the title.
The snippets begin with the start of a book and typically go through half the novel before breaking off when the book is published. In addition to posting snippets from my own novels, I also post (with their permission) snippets from books written by many other authors.
We post snippets every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Most Recent
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 38
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 38 Chapter 20 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Eddie turned, discovered the source of the tongue-in-cheek comments: Joost Banckert. The vice admiral had finally made his way up the dock to them, but the man who'd been walking with him...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 37
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 37 Eddie almost snapped his fingers: the Secret Service! That's what O'Rourke's attentive hover looked like. Eddie paused, reflected. Of course, maybe it looks like that because that's exactly what it is. But that wasn't the way...
Serpent Daughter – Snippet 35
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 35 "What else did the song say?" Cathy asked. "Just about nothing. Alzbieta only knew one verse, and my father sang it in his delirium, so it might have been nonsense, anyway. Now that I think of it, it had another line about being anointed...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 36
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 36 Chapter 19 Oranjestad, St. Eustatia Cornelis Jol began stumping along rapidly on his peg leg when he caught sight of the three of them in the far shadows of the Fort Oranjestad's seaward wall. He waved to two others...