Joyce asked Michael J. Sullivan:

Will there be audio books? Again, thank you for such great characters we can fall in love with, hate and cry over their life choices...

Michael J. Sullivan Without question, any book I release in the future will have an audiobook. There are several reasons for this.

1. Audiobooks are the fastest growing segment of the publishing world (and have been for some time). it would be foolish to ignore this portion of the market.

2. I receive my highest advances from audiobook contracts. My advances for audiobooks have reached the 7-figure level which is more than 250% of my highest print/ebook contract.

In essence, it is the audiobooks right that I'm the most protective of and the one I secure first and foremost. This is making my "other" rights harder to deal with as the big-five publishers are now REQUIRING audio rights on all new deals. By signing over audio I stand to lose 50% of my audio income to the print/ebook publisher, and they are not raising their advances to offset the value of audio on the open market.

So, yes, there will definitely be audiobooks!

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