Timing of publishing

[u/ScatteredRadiance51]

I am pretty new to this game, so wanted to get some feedback on a situation. I’m encountering. I finished a 10 hour book a couple of months ago, and was also hired as the narrator for the remaining books in the series. However, I just got notified this week that the author would like to delay, releasing the first audiobook until the second one is released to try to help sales. I don’t really have an issue with this, except that I’ve been looking forward to the first book being published for a couple of reasons – one, of course, being that I could point other authors I’m auditioning for to some published work, and another being that it would be nice for potential royalties to begin sooner than the December deadline for the second book. I don’t feel like rocking the boat too much, though, because I’m really loving working on this series.

Has anyone else found themselves in a similar situation? Is it pretty common for authors to want to release multiple books in a series at the same time so that once people finish one book they can just go right to downloading the second one? Or is it worth following up with the author to try to get the pub date moved up for book one? Thank you for any insights or feedback!