Newsletter ready for launch

I think I've mastered MailChimp enough to produce a respectable newsletter. It's got the usual for author mail-outs -- reviews, notes on current and upcoming publications, a free read of a backlist story -- but I'm adding something a little different. I've had an unusual life and I'm planning to write random snippets of an autobiography-in-progress and publish them monthly for subscribers.

The opening sentence is: "When I was seventeen, I accidentally killed a man and saved another man’s life with my bare hands. It all happened within twenty-four hours."

I've been of two minds about it and will wait to see what response, if any, I get. But I'd be interested to know, if anyone cares to comment here: do readers care about the lives of the authors they read? Or is it just the fiction they want, without the author's horning in as a distraction?

Anyone who wants to sign up for the newsletter before it goes out tomorrow can click on this link. It will also get you a free ebook of my standalone space-opera novel, TEMPLATE.