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 28
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 28 Chapter 15 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Morning started for Hugh O'Donnell with the face of his aide and old friend Aodh O'Rourke scowling down at him. "A fine example to your men, sleeping away half the morning," was how the...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 27
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 27 Chapter 14 Nezpique Bayou, Louisianna After motoring two and a half miles along the winding Nezpique Bayou, Templeton pointed up through a gap in the canopy. "There. Smoke. Up ahead." "Smoke?" Eckdahl echoed. "A camp?" Quinn...
Serpent Daughter – Snippet 25
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 25 The strange child-man body that carried the Lord Protector within it looked frail and short, but the voice that came out was an aural attack. Thou shalt not require thy sword, my son. I have a wedding gift for thee. Thomas nodded, unsure...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 26
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 26 In hindsight, he might have been able to make it out of Galveston Bay under sail alone, but in the event that the wind became fickle at just the moment she was running a gauntlet between two close sandbars, Haraldsen had...