Title: Amateur Angel
Author: Karri Thompson
Published: May 1, 2012
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Only 18-years-old, Ashley is no ordinary teenager. Not only is she dead, but upon her death, she mistakenly enters the wrong line in the afterlife, a line meant for trained, guardian angels. With a pair of wings on her back, Ashley is sent to Los Angeles to replace another angel whose “assignment” was none-other-than Cannon Michaels, a current member of the band Sendher, the sexiest man alive, and Ashley’s celebrity crush in life.
While exposed to Cannon’s selfish, judgmental behavior and his reckless, rock-and-roll lifestyle, Ashley is far from meeting the requirements of a true guardian angel. She misses her family and friends. Will she ever be able to accept her own death? What will she do when she jeopardizes her position as an angel and Cannon’s physical safety by falling in love with him?
~From the Author~
Author Karri Thompson has stopped by with an excerpt for the Amateur Angel blog tour.
Most people would love to hear all about how my life flashed before me, how I felt my body pummel against the airbag, knocking the wind out of me just as my internal organs smashed around inside my abdomen, perforating my aorta, killing me almost instantly, but unfortunately, afterwards, I didn’t have a story like that to tell; I honestly didn’t remember any of it.
And I thought they’d want to hear about the tunnel of light I had to walk through, the one where all of my dead ancestors were waiting to welcome me to the other side, but sorry — I didn’t have a story like that to tell either.
I did remember one thing though — the song that was playing on the radio. It was by my favorite band, Sendher. I’m going to see them in concert next week. Sorry. I meant to say that I would have been going to see them in concert if I hadn’t died that day. Obviously, I still haven’t completely acclimated to being dead, yet. But anyway, Cannon Michaels, the hottest lead singer ever, started singing the chorus:
“Two nights for two …” when crash, and then I was somewhere else, somewhere unimaginable, and that’s where my crazy story began.
~About the Author~
As a first-time author, I cannot express- not even in words- how excited I am about the release of my debut novel, Amateur Angel. It took a lot of hard work and sleepless nights. There were many disappointments and rejections along the way, but in the end, my persistence and determination eventually paid off. In many ways, I think writing a novel is easier than finding an agent to represent it and then a publisher to buy it. Two years ago, I almost gave up on my dream to become an author, but then my son, Kyle, wrote a special poem for me, and it inspired me to write a new book and try again. The new book was Amateur Angel.
Here is his poem:
You fail and you fail,
You fix and you fix,
You wait and you wait,
Until you succeed.I hung this poem in my closet and read it every day when I was getting ready to go to work and each night before I went to bed. It is still there and always will be. I know what I’m about to say will sound like a cliché, but based on my own personal experience, the best advice I can give anyone is to always believe in your abilities, hold your head high, swallow your pride, accept criticism and then learn from it, and most importantly, never give up.
I grew up in San Diego County and attended San Diego State University, earning a bachelor’s degree in English, a master’s degree in education, and my teaching credential. I am a high-school English teacher in the East County of San Diego where I also live with my husband, our son, and two dogs.
Being a lover of Victorian literature, my favorite author is Charles Dickens although I haven’t quite finished reading all of his books. Someday I’ll finally finish David Copperfield- I promise. If you are one of my students, you are either laughing or shaking your head at this.
I lead a very busy life, but when I’m not teaching, grading papers, or attending my son’s soccer games, I find time to write novels, my greatest passion.
