SF Signal this morning points out a website that I didn't know existed -- ChapterFeeds, which publishes first chapters of many books (and has this nice cartoon to explain what it is they do).

Among their "recent chapters" sidebar are this one from Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate (coming soon to the SFBC), one from Spellbinder by Melanie Rawn, and the opening of Cadmian's Choice by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. Their Sci Fi/Fantasy section has more, but they're arranged confusingly one after another on the same page, without an index. It's a bit hard to use right now, but a slight web redesign could clear that right up, so I hope they will fix it.