Tuesday Intro/Teaser

First Chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea every Tuesday. To participate share the opening paragraph or two of a book you've decided to read based on that paragraph. Please feel free to join in, First Chapter~First Paragraph~Tuesday Intros.

"The Great Elmore Leonard once said that you should never start a story with the weather. That's all well and good for Mr. Leonard to say and for all his acolytes to scribble into their moleskin notebooks, but sometimes a story starts off with weather and does not give a damn about what some legendary genre guy recommends, even if it is the big EL. So if there's weather at the start then that's where you better put it or the whole thing could unravel and you find yourself with the shavings of a tale swirling around your ankles and no idea how to glue them together again. So expect some major meteorological conditions smack bang in the middle of Chapter One, and if there were kids and animals around they'd be in here too, screw that old-timely movie-star guy with the cigar and squint eye. The story is what it is. And the story being what it is, let's get to it."

Screwed by Eoin Colfer

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of  Should Be Reading.