J. Griff asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Will Graphic Audio by making the last 2 Legends of the First Empire (Age of Death & Age of Empyre) novels into audiobooks? I own the rest of the series on Graphic Audio & am a bit of a completist when it comes with series. If not I'll just grab them up off Audible.

Michael J. Sullivan Hey there. Yes, there will be both the non-dramatic versions (read by Tim Gerard Reynolds) and the full-cast dramatic versions with music and sound effects. They received the manuscript version of Age of Death in February and I'm waiting for their "revised version" to come to me for review. Once I approve it. They'll start the recording.

I suspect the Coronavirus outbreak is hampering their production. Studios haven't generally been deemed as "essential businesses" so much of them have been shut down. The only reason we were able to get the non-dramatic version of Age of Empyre out on schedule was that Tim Gerard Reynolds has a professional studio at his house and he was able to record from there. As for the Author's Note, Robin's Afterword, and an Afterword I wrote, we had to record them from our cabin in a place that definitely was NOT a professional studio. Still, Robin downloaded a copy of the book as soon as it went live and the portions we recorded here sounded remarkably good...I attribute that to the wizards in Audible's post-production mastering department.

So, that's probably a longer answer than you wanted, but the bottom line is (a) the rights have been purchased (b) they are working on Age of Death, and (c) it might take a bit longer to get them produced due to Coronavirus issues.

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