HFQ snippet request

AHEM . . . . .

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa Whaaaaaaaaaa snivel WHAAAAAAAA

. . . with due respect

dwileye13 wrote:AHEM . . . . .

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa Whaaaaaaaaaa snivel WHAAAAAAAA

. . . with due respect

Okay, you can quit sniveling and read Snippet #19, which is so long that it would have made three pretty long snippets if RFC hadn't had an abnormally hectic few weeks interfere with crucial things like giving us our biweekly fix.

So we can debate all the new juicy stuff and in a week to 10 days come back here and start begging again.

I'm beginning to wonder if perhaps Drak pointed out to RFC that he could post the snippets on a regular basis, especially when life gets a bit, um, "busy" for our favorite celery stalker, perhaps the dragon could get his old job back. (I note he still posts snippets for some upcoming Baen books on other websites.)

RFC must see some advantage in posting the snippets himself. Putting them here in the Safehold forums has sparked more discussions and kept us on topic, unless we don't get our regular snippets, and then we wander off like untended sheep.

So having many of his most devoted readers read the snippets and make posts about them here rather than debating the snippets somewhere else, like the fifthimperium website where I used to read and discuss them with Drak, PeterZ, and several others who post here regularly but who I can't name off the top of my head, is a good thing in improving reader feedback where RFC can see it. Unfortunately, it also leads to threads like this one when his hectic life catches up with him, instead of everyone knowing we'd get a short snippet Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from Drak.

I don't know why RFC doesn't have Drak post his snippets anymore - after all, Drak did post them on this site, but in the "Snippets" forum. I'm sure there's a thrill to pick out how much of the next scene to give us and see how we like his latest baby - and watch us go off the rails speculating more often than not when the snippet ends on a cliffhanger! (Which I've noticed happens a lot more now than when Drak was posting. Hmm...)

RFC has been personally active in posting comments, teaser snippets, and an occasional reply (or interjection) to our wilder or most harangued discussions. I deeply appreciate it when he takes the time to explain the details we don't know of a subject we're discussing. It's very personally satisfying to have him reply to one of your own posts, which has happened to me a few times.

I've met several other notable writers over the years, although Orson Scott Card is the only one who I've met personally who seems as interested in interacting with his readers as much as RFC does. Card has been on the internet since before browsers were invented, and was kind enough to spend 10 minutes chatting with me while he signed my pile of his dead tree books, even though there were well over 100 people in line behind me waiting. To top that off, he told me how his "Alvin Maker" series was going to end when it still had a few books to go!

When Brandon Sanderson came to my daughter's school after finishing Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, he wouldn't even answer the three questions Jordan told him he couldn't! (Although I came up with a fourth...)

For whatever reason RFC has decided to post the snippets himself, I'm grateful for his posts that explain his thinking and the mindset of his characters, plus the vast details about Safehold or the Honorverse that he's mapped out but aren't in the books. It's made the Safehold and Honorverse books so much more real to me, and even made me understand characters I'd gladly see red-shirted! (Although there is no way that understanding Clyntahn is going to make me despise him any less! May Mab get within rifle range!)

Every now and then when RFC considers one of my posts worth commenting on, I have to admit that it's a thrill. (Unless he's correcting me when I've gone astray that is, although he's usually kind when bridling my... enthusiasm.) Burn Gorath, burn!!!!

Of course being RFC you occasionally have to take his posts with a grain of salt. Especially when he says "Tum tee tum..." Or uses letters of the alphabet or Arabic numerals in his posts!

McGuiness wrote:I've met several other notable writers over the years, although Orson Scott Card is the only one who I've met personally who seems as interested in interacting with his readers as much as RFC does.

I've found another one for you, though he is quite a bit newer author and not quite as good as DW. Try Ryk Brown who writes The Frontiers Saga. http://www.frontierssaga.com/

McGuiness wrote:(Although there is no way that understanding Clyntahn is going to make me despise him any less! May Mab get within rifle range!)

Poor Clyntahn, he is never understood.
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I was just wondering if there is a thread which contains all the snippets that have been posted of the on coming book.

No, but there is a thread that indexes them. It's pinned to the top of the forum so you can't miss it.

Or, now that Joe is up and running again, you can get them here, organised into chapters: http://jiltanith.thefifthimperium.com/s ... nsQuiver/-

SYED wrote:I was just wondering if there is a thread which contains all the snippets that have been posted of the on coming book.

I don't mind being charaterized as greedy, but I hope we get another snippet tomorrow. The last one (#19) was posted on 1 March and tomorrow is 11 March if the galloper after green stalks of limited nutritional value sticks to his past practice (which is no guarantee of future performance) of posting every ten days. (Except when House 6 is not well and life happens.)

USMA74 wrote:I don't mind being charaterized as greedy, but I hope we get another snippet tomorrow. The last one (#19) was posted on 1 March and tomorrow is 11 March if the galloper after green stalks of limited nutritional value sticks to his past practice (which is no guarantee of future performance) of posting every ten days. (Except when House 6 is not well and life happens.)

Yes, Oh beggers gather round: time to start sniveling and grovelling for snippets again!

Don

snivel, snivel

grovel, grovel

When my wife asked what I wanted for my birthday (today) I said a snippet from my favorite author, who has created a wonderful world that I love to immerse myself in whenever I get the chance.

ChaChaCharms wrote:When my wife asked what I wanted for my birthday (today) I said a snippet from my favorite author, who has created a wonderful world that I love to immerse myself in whenever I get the chance.

Happy birthday. I hope you have an enjoyable day...and get what you wish.

Don