[LMB] Snerk -- (chat) Galleys yay!

[Marna Nightingale]

Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
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>     One snerk as per request.  A snerk, for those who tuned in late, is 
> Baen's Bar slang for a sample of prose from an unpublished work.  
> Although style points are awarded for being as fiendish in selection as 
> possible -- as the writer who posted all the punctuation of his latest 
> chapter -- it's not required.  Be it noted, it's still four months 
> (short or long) till this thing hits bookstore shelves.  So this is a 
> little premature, but not much.
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>     Those who are highly spoiler-sensitive may now avert their eyes.  
> For the rest, here's the first sentence of the first chapter of _The 
> Sharing Knife, Vol. 3: Passage_... actually, it's the first paragraph as 
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> Dag was riding up the lane thinking only of a Bluefield farm lunch, and 
> his likelihood of needing a nap afterwards, when the arrow hissed past 
> his face.
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... as long as it went PAST.

Marna, who does not wish Dag to be eaten by the eels at this time.

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