As Baxter Hetznecker would say: 'Surprise."

After careful review, I've decided there's only one way to get past the writer's roadblock I've been having for six months or 17 years (depending on how you measure) in creating the second book in my series of stories based in the era of imaginary physics.

I'm going to start working on the third book.

I know where the characters will be at the end of the second story, and frankly, starting the third story feels like a lot more fun than finishing the second one. So I'm gonna.

Starting today, you can read my "unfinished symphony," The Imaginary Lover, a chapter a day, online. Or come back to the site in 10 days and read the whole thing — errr, the whole excerpt.

Nope, no podcast this time. We're saving that one for the sequel to the sequel.