User blog comment:TaniaDreyar/Apparently Fairy Tail is on hiatus until 2013/@comment-71.181.188.6-20121216005511/@comment-1839664-20121216020233

And that I don't believe. From the official site and Mashima's twitter, they both stated that the next chapter, which will be release officially on December 26th, 2012, will have color cover and additional pages added.