Defying Gravity

by Amanda Frederickson

In a world ripped apart by monsters, an underground citadel struggles for life, supported by Summoners who can call mythical creatures from a parallel dimension.

Esil has felt the resonance that marks a potential Summoner for her entire life, but it takes more than a strong resonance to pull another being across dimensions. It’s time to put her training to the test. But the world is a much more challenging place than Esil ever realized. What do you do when the defining moment of your life falls through?

41 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 15, 2015

About the author

Amanda Frederickson holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing and Communications, was a quarter finalist in the Writers of the Future contest, and has published several pieces of short fiction. Keystone is her debut novel.

She blames most of this on her fantastically artistic mother, who encouraged her love of reading from an early age and let her answer questions like "How was your day?" with tales of fairies and troll invasions of the preschool. She completed her first novel length manuscript in fifth grade. The subsequent intrusion of something called the "real world" is being slowly and methodically thrown out the window in favor of her first loves: reading and writing fantastic stories.