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 22
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 22 "General." Landon's voice dropped in pitch and slowed down. "General Lee, you know that I am a man of Johnsland." "As am I." Bill nodded proudly. Was Landon Chapel now going to tell him about his son Charles? Landon was silent. "Am I...
Serpent Daughter – Snippet 21
Serpent Daughter - Snippet 21 Bailey shook his big, shaggy head. "No, that's not it. Jackson was ambitious, but his faithfulness was bigger than his ambition, and he knew the most important thing about ambition." Etienne looked and Bailey and smiled. "Tell me the most...
Heart Of The World – Snippet 21
This book should be available now, so this is the last snippet. Heart Of The World - Snippet 21 Boglu was riding up toward him, leading another horse. At the grim look on his face, his brows down and his mouth tight, Daud stiffened all over, warned. He looked past...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 23
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 23 De Curco y San Joan started as if struck. "P-parole? You are freeing us?" "In a manner of speaking. Forty miles north of here, just south of Guadeloupe, are a pair of small islands known as Petit-Terre. At least that is how...