Marketing experiment, or a test of my story telling skills.

After a good week of a new clown t shirt (thank you my better half), budgie called Tibby and those lovely teaching dollars now coming in, I'm a happy writer bloke once more. And following a conversation on Facebook with the editor of Tales from the Cauldron, Rhiannon, thought I'd run this (free) marketing experiment.

The premise is simple. Here, for the first time, is the full opening to my novel Samhane. I've thrown a few juicy snippets around before, but never so much meat.

I would be...