Summer Road Trip #Audiobook #Giveaway

In celebration of summer, M. Pax is giving away three sets of audiobooks. Each set includes: The Backworlds, Stopover at the Backwords' Edge, and The Renaissance of Hetty Locklear.

Make the road, make your travel, fun and entertaining. Contest runs through June 16th. Sign up below.

Invisibility Cloaks Aren't Just Fantastical Garments

by M. Pax

Have you heard of the time cloak?

Moti Fridman and colleagues, at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, created a hole in time using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.

Invisibility cloaks are produced by distorting electromagnetic fields in extreme ways, moving light around an area, so that it can't be seen in that area. Physicists have used them for light, sound and ocean waves.

There's even an illusion cloak which makes an object look like another object. Excellent.  

More on invisibility cloaks / More on illusion cloaks

Granted it took a huge amount of energy and a huge-ass machine to create the time cloak for only a fraction of a fraction of a second. But that won't last. Fridman says there might be a use for a time gap lasting fractions of a second in routing competing streams of data to a processor.  

More in the time cloak. 

What could you imagine using a time cloak for? What about an invisibility or sound cloak? An illusion cloak? Have an idea for a cloak of you're own?

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I used an invisibility cloak and an illusion cloak in The Renaissance of Hetty Locklear. Do you know about Hetty?

The journey into adulthood is stranger than she expects.

Graduation from community college isn’t the magic elixir Hetty Locklear counts on for becoming an adult. Her parents, who work the Renaissance fair circuit, insist she spend part of the summer with them. Hetty doubts pretending to live in the Middle Ages will help her find her way.

 To make it worse, an entity haunts her at her dead-end job, warning her of a dangerous man she doesn’t know. The ghost leads her to a lover who has a lot of secrets. He pulls her farther into peril and into a strange, hidden world of genetic experimentation.

New Adult Science Fiction Fantasy.

Special offer

July has been a time of specials for this book, and I'm going to continue the fun here. Write "Boo" in your comment and I'll email you an ebook. Offer good until August 5, 2013.

Come one, come all to the Blogger Book Fair!

The Blogger Book Fair is going on all this week, through Friday, July 26, and all are invited to join in on the fun!

The fair is run by Kayla Curry and I can't even imagine how many hours of work she puts into the event to get it up and running. There are hundreds of authors participating and many are holding giveaways and other promotional activities for the fair. In addition, there are tons of fun and creative events going on, including Readers Choice Awards, Flash Fiction and Synopsis Challenges, and Excerpt Days. Visit the events page here to see everything that is scheduled during this fun-packed week.

I am taking part in the fair with my novel Polar Night, which will be reviewed by one of the many great book bloggers participating in the event. I'm also interviewing four fellow BBF authors at my blog this week, so please stop by and learn about these authors and their books. In addition, visit me at L.R. Wright's and Shah Wharton's blogs today and at the blogs of Jeff W. Horton and Cathrina Constantine on Wednesday. It's been fun swapping posts and interviews with these authors!

My Untethered Realms comrade M. Pax is also involved with the fair and is giving away ebook copies of The Renaissance of Hetty Locklear. Hetty is an EXCELLENT book so I know you'll want to enter this giveaway if you haven't already read it. Click here for the giveaway page.

Mary and I are both entered into the BBF Reader's Choice Awards, hosted by Shut up & Read, and you can vote for us both here. Polar Night is entered in the "Fantasy - Mature (1)" category and Hetty Locklear is entered in the "Science Fiction - New Adult" category. Please vote for both of us!

And please visit all of us at the Blogger Book Fair this week and "book your trip to far away places!" :)