Gamasutra has posted an interview today with Stardock’s Brad Wardell about the upcoming PC game, Elemental: War of Magic, and it’s partnership with Random House to create a novel written by Brad as well.

“What prompted that? They had just seen that the game was in development?

BW: They were already aware of Galactic Civilizations, and they liked that we had a whole universe around it, so they asked, "What is your next game?" We told them about Elemental, and they told us that, rather than make books based on games, they wanted to collaborate on a world in which books and games and other media could be set.

That's where the book, Elemental: Destiny's Embers, came from, and they let me write it. It's 600 pages, which turned out to be way more than I thought. I got really lucky in that the editors there had been scheduled to work on George R.R. Martin's new book, so they could give a lot of editorial help building up the lore of the universe to draw on for the book.”

Read the full interview at Gamasutra.