@Farmerdad I don't really know what you're expecting, to be frank. You're asking J-Novel Club to collect and share information about publication status/author status, correct? I see two possible scenarios for this:
JNC obtains information from the publisher behind the scenes.
JNC combs through social media and blogs to find public information.
For 1, my initial answer basically encompasses this. We don't usually get secret information about series or future books. When we do, it's under confidentiality, so we can't share it.
For 2, we don't do that currently, and we won't start doing it just for your personal convenience. (See the last paragraph.)
And the hidden answer between 1 and 2 is that any information we do reveal publicly can lead to a lot of speculation among the fanbase about information that we do or should have, or confirmation by omission. "Why did JNC know series X is canceled but say nothing about series Y? Does that mean Y is actually not canceled? If JNC said author A is sick but nothing about author B, was B's series canceled?"
As you've probably seen in the topics like this one, we can't license a new volume until it's released in Japan anyway, so the reason why there's a gap or a hiatus or cancellation or whatever is honestly irrelevant to us. If a book is going to be published, we have advance notice of it from preorders and other indicators. Therefore we have no reason to proactively seek information on authors and whatnot.
