Well, not that many people care, but I heard back from Brady Games and "Sorry, our Empire: Total War Official Strategy Guide was cancelled."

Actually, I am quite dissapointed; the Rome Total War guide I aside, I quite enjoyed other TW strategy Guids (MTW, RTWBI, M2TW), and not having a guide for ETW is actually going to lessen my enjoyment of the game a bit. I may be weird, but I often enjoy reading about games (in the sense of strategy, historical background) almost as much as playing them, not to mention sometimes I'll see the M2TW guide on the shelf, randomly thumb through it for a few minutes, and be inspired to go play the game.

C'est la vie . . .