The only problems that I see right now for JMM are the marketing and promotional aspects: as a professional marketing&comms expert, I can help you (for free, obviously) in finding cheap ways to promote HLG if you want. The first thing is to make aware all the people that were following the game that it has not been cancelled (how the BF forum says) but that now this is the official forum. I'll start with posting the news in every strategy newsgroup and forum that I know.
As other suggested, I would try to contact Matrix or Slitherine, maybe they are willing to distribute the game - but the release dates posted in the "News" thread MUST be certain.
I'm sure that the LG community will help JMM in every possible way to help him overcome what has certainly been an hard hit.