Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Precisely Terminated - A Synopsis

Here is a short synopsis of Precisely Terminated. I hope you will enjoy it and consider reading my novel.

With microchips implanted in their skulls at birth, the slaves of Cantral and Cillineese have labored under the tyrannical rule of the nobles and their computers for decades. Monica, a noble who avoided the implanting and escaped a death sentence at the age of four, is now sixteen and is in hiding. She lives with the slaves inside the walls of the Cantral palace, pretending to be one of them while the slave council plots a way to use her chip-less state to destroy the all-powerful computers that strike down any hint of rebellion.

The nobles hear of Monica’s survival and try to exterminate her before she ruins their upper-class utopia. The rebels send her to find a missing paper bearing instructions on how to shut down the computers that control the chips in Cillineese, a major city-state. The nobles are alerted to the plan and prepare to seal Cillineese in a giant dome to gas the inhabitants, including Monica.

The fate of millions rides on Monica’s shoulders. As the only chip-less person in the world, she must find the paper, destroy the computers, and free Cillineese from the nobles’ iron fist before they strike with the ultimate punishment—death for everyone inside the city walls.

With microchips implanted in their skulls at birth, the slaves of Cantral and Cillineese have labored under the tyrannical rule of the nobles and their computers for decades. Monica, a noble who avoided the implanting and escaped a death sentence at the age of four, is now sixteen and is in hiding. She lives with the slaves inside the walls of the Cantral palace, pretending to be one of them while the slave council plots a way to use her chip-less state to destroy the all-powerful computers that strike down any hint of rebellion.

The nobles hear of Monica’s survival and try to exterminate her before she ruins their upper-class utopia. The rebels send her to find a missing paper bearing instructions on how to shut down the computers that control the chips in Cillineese, a major city-state. The nobles are alerted to the plan and prepare to seal Cillineese in a giant dome to gas the inhabitants, including Monica.

The fate of millions rides on Monica’s shoulders. As the only chip-less person in the world, she must find the paper, destroy the computers, and free Cillineese from the nobles’ iron fist before they strike with the ultimate punishment—death for everyone inside the city walls.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The First Author Talk

This is my first post here on my author blog, and I'm not sure how to start it.

My name is Amanda L. Davis, and I am the author of the Cantral Chronicles, a dystopian trilogy which has its first book coming out in October. Precisely Terminated, the first in the series will be around 400 pages long and is exciting from start to finish. I will post the synopsis here in another post very soon.


On June 14th around 8PM I gave my first ever author talk. I've seen my dad (Author Bryan Davis) give them many times, but it's very different to stand up there and give my own. My dad and I spoke to the Daytona area Word Weaver's group. They were attentive and asked many questions. Lots of authors there who seemed interested in what we had to say.

I'm very thankful that they were willing to listen to all my 'ums' and 'ahs' and long uncomfortable pauses as I tried to think of what to say. Public speaking is not my forte, but it will soon become a second nature with practice as my dad and I begin our book tour together in September. Practice makes perfect, right?

I have pictures to post, too, but it will take awhile to post them here, and I'm pretty sure I don't have any readers here anyway. ;)