While there is still a bit of book keeping to be done until this Book closes, it's been so long for me that I don't know if I can push the story to the point where it's appropriate to end.
In light of that situation, I have a suggestion: I can post the piece I wrote to close book 1. If you give me a little bit of time after that, I can rewrite the introduction and whatnot, and completely start Ilium from fresh. It will be a bit of the same, and also a bit different.
I will make new characters, and push my old ones (that have too much baggage that depends on departed players) into NPC land, and we can follow stories of new and old ones.