Guardian Angel: The Original Manuscript

Introduction

Welcome to the very first book I ever finished (I say “finished” because I wrote a lot before I ever got this far…), please allow me a moment to warn you about what you’re in for:

This book is burnable trash.

Seriously, it’s really bad.

I know, I know; you’re wondering why in the world I would publish a book knowing it’s bad; well, allow me another moment, and I will explain.

I wrote this book from start to finish in January of 2007, the year I turned twenty. As previously stated, I had written a lot of fiction, but I had not yet finished anything and, worse, I had exactly one semester of fiction classes under my belt from a community college; a class in which I learned basically nothing. Which, to be fair, was more on me than my teacher. He was (probably, I don’t really remember ^^;) a good teacher, but I had Big Fish syndrome because my parents had told me for basically ever that I was the best writer ever.

(Way to set me up for failure, Mom and Dad; appreciate it.)

So, anyway, I wrote this book in six weeks when I was 19-going-on-20, and I was unbelievably proud of myself. I thought for sure that this was going to be my breakout novel and it would make me famous and rich and I would be lauded as the next J. K. Rowling and I would be able to buy my parents a fantastic retirement home and live a comfortable life with my adoring family.

I was, admittedly, a very naïve 19-going-on-20.