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
Serpent Daughter – Snippet 34
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 34 "Your Majesty?" Korinn called. "What happened?" she asked. "And remember, I can tell when you're lying." "Only if you can see me, Your Majesty." "Oh, if there's anything I can do for sure, it's see." Cathy heard Korinn and Walters share a...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 35
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 35 "Ah, Maarten Tromp, you are delighting in his torment of me," van Walbeeck lamented histrionically. "Soldiers, particularly jongeren like this Cantrell fellow, have little appreciation of the trials and tribulations that an...
Serpent Daughter – Snippet 33
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 33 He paid three Texians to help him build it and to help him fire it. They were fascinated, averring at first that it couldn't possibly work, and then hooting and slapping their broad-brimmed hats against their knees when it did. It was not...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 34
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 34 That still-fresh structure was currently swarmed by those same lighters, but they were now off-loading the last general cargos of the prizes Tromp's fleet had taken off Dominica. Although still referred to by some as the New...