First off.
My book is available for preorder! Let’s celebrate the final two books in the Fairy Doctor series. Preorder Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace. The massive 2-1 ebook edition is ready! I’ll link all the virtual bookstores below.
Here’s the cover for Book 3 and 4 of the Fairy Doctor series. I’m so happy I can finally give you preorder details. The book will officially come out on April 30th. I should have the paperback soon and will update this page.
But back to the weird thing that happened. I was doing my final proofreading, and Amazon quality control found some words they thought were wrong. Smancy is a word. Fancy smancy? Right? That’s definitely a word. And Kaboomy. Totally a word, right? I didn’t make up the word Kaboom. But I did make it an adjective. It’s onomatopoeia for….
Sound effects are words!
Then I got to ‘counterplane’ and I stared at it. I know exactly what a counterplane is. It’s a synonym for a parallel universe. The counterplane for our world… is Oz or Narnia, sorta. It’s the world through the looking-glass.
I didn’t make up this word!
I tried to Google counterplane. Okay, I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, so I DuckDuckGoed the word. I tried to Bing it. Autocorrect kept trying to give me definitions for counterpane, which is a bedspread. (Wrong again, autocorrect.) I kept digging into other spellings, like counter-plane, which gets you information about airplane propellers. Planes are also used in woodworking.
Counterplane is a word, isn’t it? Did I make it up? Is this a mandala-effect thing happening? (What universe am I in, anyway? The JIF or the JIFFY one?)
Anyway, I’m pretty sure the word comes from geometry: a plane is a geometric term for a “flat surface extending in all directions.” Parallel planes are two separate planes that are parallel to each other and never intersect.
In the final epilogue of the Segundo Route, I use the word in a sentence: “Lillia asked where she came from, but Cirra’s explanation had been utterly confusing, something about a mythical counterplane and a Circe-continuum.”
There’s a lot to unpack in that sentence. Don’t think too hard about it. I can try to explain more if you really want to know about counterplanes. Maybe I’ll write a book about it someday.
Where to Preorder Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace?
In the meantime, you can preorder Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace, the final book in my series, from these fine Virtual Bookstores:
- Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace on Amazon for Kindle.
- Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace: Barnes & Noble for Nook
- Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace: Apple Books
- Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace: Kobo
- Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace: Fable
And for places like Tolino, Vivlio, Palace Everand, and everywhere else, check out the Fairy Doctor Rest in Peace: Universal Book link.