I woke up today and realized that what Ho Springs needed was a Season Finale. Summer’s coming, a time when web traffic slows down. And I need a break to research and develop a new novel — and I hope do a little traveling and spend some time at the beach.

Plus, Ho Springs, the story, needs a Season Finale, too. A wrapping up of all the story lines I’ve been developing since we launched in February. Plus a series of kickers to propel the story into a new phase when we start up again in the fall.

You know, like Betty Draper on the airplane heading to Nevada at the end of last season’s Mad Men. You know that when next we meet Don and Betty — which, for my taste, can’t be soon enough — they’ll be divorced, their individual stories and their relationship proceeding in a new direction.

That’s why George and Cora finally kissed today. So when they meet again, their relationship will be on another level. I’m as curious to see what develops between them and with them individually as I am to find out what’s up with the Drapers.

But a web novel is not a television series, and so my Season Finale is going to unfold over the next few weeks. We’ll visit all the major voices of Ho Springs and set them, a lot or a little bit, on a new path. Stay tuned over the next few weeks.