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
Marked Territory – Snippet 05
Marked Territory - Snippet 05 I glanced over and saw a bright orange tabby lounging on a stack of boxes just beneath a hot air vent. Her coat was thick, but it had that rough look that told me she took care of it mostly on her own. Her eyes were a sparkling green, and...
The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 05
The Portals Of Hell - Snippet 05 Chapter 3: A Revelation The GranMalo towered over them all, more than eight meters tall, and so close that Davin could smell the rotten remains of its past butchery, hear the wind of its nostrils, feel the darkness of this creature in...
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line – Snippet 07
1637 No Peace Beyond The Line - Snippet 07 Sehested, hurrying to join Stirke, discovered what had stopped the small Bermudan in his tracks: his surprise encounter with a spectacle from another world: A telegrapher hammering away at a device that was all levers...
1636 The Atlantic Encounter – Snippet 38
This book is available now, so this is the last Snippet. 1636 The Atlantic Encounter - Snippet 38 "They can go straight to Hell, Mynheer Chehab, which is where they claim we are all going. I shall not make 'common cause' with any of those mock-pious preeners. And as...