Kevin and I discussed it and decided to post the first chapter of the novel to gauge whether there was still any interest in it or not. You see, the contract with our publisher expired in February and we wanted to know if we should re-new or not.
You said the novel is epic and I suppose it is in a way since it weighs in at nearly 200,000 words - about 560 pages. We felt it was too long to serialize on TWoM since, at the rate of six issues per year, it would take more than 5 years to weave through the tale.