From schoolteacher to best-selling romance novelist. It may sound a thing of fairy tales, but for Amarillo native Jodi Koumalats – better known by her pen name, Jodi Thomas — it’s a reality. The fifth-generation Texan spent years working at Amarillo High School as both a teacher and a counselor — a job she loved dearly — but she never forgot her first love: storytelling. Syncronex: Metered read more