Let me save you some time and trouble...never contact the publisher directly. The "help" person you will speak to has no idea what the publishing plans are or will be, and has no way to actually contact the people who do in the inner core of Simon & Schuster. Dead end from every angle.
The closest you can get to that inner core is Ms. Mod here in the forum who has a contact there and has already posted their reply to this inquiry a page or so back.
As for the covers... one of the stupidest things I have discovered about book cover art is that the same ISBN number can be used for a book version, and have two or more artwork editions associated with it. Also, several sub-houses under S&S (Gallery, Scribner, etc) release the same book several times in different editions, each with a different cover art scheme. Many books with the cover we want is listed as in stock, but you actually get one with the same ISBN but a different cover.
You have to really dig in to every release version and format on amazon and weed out if the book with the cover you want is actually available in stock. Cross-referencing release dates, publishing houses, actual pictures of the book you want (not stock photos) taken by and posted by the sellers on eBay, Amazon Used and Abe Books to make sure it even exists yet and if so, that it has the cover you want.
It was a nightmare for me as I was a sucker so many times and returned so many books when I started collecting. Now finding what I want is second nature to me and I can weed the real from the waste in minutes. It seriously is a learned skill and should be taught in college as a credit course