Sorry to hear this sad announcement, and I hope that Hobelhause can resume his brilliant alternative history.
However, I would say that if you are interested in an alternate history in the interesting context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, I've started writing an alternative history based on that after the Spanish Glorious 1868, is chosen as Spanish king to another was not Amedeo of Savoy (a clue, the new king comes from a German dynasty).