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A Goodreads user asked Michael J. Sullivan:

I know I have asked this before but cannot find it - I just saw Age of Empyre is available to pre-order on Audible.com - does it in any way diminish your chance at hitting best-seller lists if I pre order it? Is it better to wait until first week of release? Sorry for repeat question but I have memory issues yet a zeal to proselytize your sales :)

Michael J. Sullivan Hey thanks for asking. So, the way bestseller lists work is the pre-orders count for the "first week's sales." So an author's BEST chance to hit a bestseller list is if readers/listeners do a lot of pre-ordering. Also, a lot of preorders signal to the publishers how much marketing to do. While it sound scounter intuitive, publishers will do a lot more marketing for a book with high pre-orders than for one with low numbers. So, whenever you want to support your favorite author, pre-ordering is a great way to go.

Thanks for the support and for spreading the word! It's because of people like you that the books have the wings that they do.

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MK asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Hi Michael :) I'm reading & listening (amazon whispersyncing) a book called Calculating God, by Robert J Sawyer. I looked up the narrator (Jonathan Davis), because he's very very good! I noticed that he also narrated your :Hollow World, on audible, which I thought was pretty neat. How does the narrator for your book get chosen? Do you choose yourself, or does your publisher? Someone else?

Jerome Fajardo

Jerome Fajardo asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Hi Michael! Big fan of your work here! By the way, I bought the audiobook of The Riyria Chronicles Death of Dulgath, and I'm on chapter 7 now. I can't stop thinking about the piano song you used in that chapter! Do you happen to know the name of the track? It's been stuck in my head for days now. PS: The part I'm referring to is around 48:19 - 50:40 in the audiobook.

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A Goodreads user asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Hey there, Michael. I'm curious, will Chronicles #4 take place in between the two Riyria series', or will it be a sequel to Revelation? I'd love to know what happens after, but the ending was so damn perfect it would be a shame to go beyond it!

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