This is probably a question only Brad can answer: Amazon.com currently lists August 24 as the release date for Elemental: Destiny's Embers. If the game is delayed from August to February, will the novel be pushed back too?
It would be nice to get the novel a few months before the game so we could get introduced to the lore/world. This is what EA did with Dragon Age and its first novel, The Stolen Throne, and I think it worked rather well.