ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - 2018

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge - 2018

On Thursday, August 9th, Deyan Audio hosted our fifth annual Ice Bucket Challenge at our Northridge location. Our staff and several wonderful narrators were able to join us :)

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge remains one of the most effective fundraising campaigns in the battle against this terrible disease. Over $100 million has been raised through this initiative and remarkable breakthroughs have been made in our understanding of what causes ALS because of it. 

Deyan Audio hosts an Ice Bucket Challenge event every year in honor of Bob Deyan, our founder and all-around amazing man. We lost him to ALS several years ago and it is our hope that we will soon be living in a world where no one has to suffer through the awful experience of losing a loved one to this disease.

If you'd like to contribute, donations of any size are appreciated and can be made at this link, in memory of Bob. You can also join the "Billion for Bob" team for the upcoming Walk to Defeat ALS, happening on November 4, 2018 at Exposition Park (in LA) and many other locations around the country.

A note from Debra Deyan:

Another year is upon us and we are still battling ALS. My dear Bob – some of you knew him, and some of you only heard stories of the wonderful, humorous, loving man he was – remains alive in my heart! 

This awful disease that ravaged him is still destroying the lives of countless people throughout the world. It saddens me to know how many wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children, and friends have to watch a loved one battle ALS, as I did with Bob, or happen to be that person battling ALS. I know, many of you were right there with Bob and me through his struggle and I will never forget the love you showed us.

Thank you!

4 Audie Wins in 2018!

4 Audie Wins in 2018!

Deyan Audio would like to extend a huge congratulations to all the talented narrators, engineers, producers, and audiobook professionals who were recognized at the 2018 Audies Award ceremony last night. You can check out all the winners on AudioFile here.

We'd like to give a special shout out to the following titles which we he had the honor of working on this past year. Thank you to the publishers for entrusting us with these projects and thank you to the narrators for your tireless and always amazing work!

The Hate U Give

  • Winner 'Best Female Narrator'

  • Winner 'Best Young Adult'

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

  • Winner 'Best Fiction'

Restart

  • Winner 'Best Multi-Voiced Performance'


ALA Odyssey Award Announced!

ALA Odyssey Award Announced!

Each year, the American Library Association gives out the prestigious Odyssey award to one deserving audiobook production. The award is given to "the producer of the best audiobook produced for children and/or young adults, available in English in the United States" and is decided by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), divisions of ALA, and is sponsored by Booklist magazine.

We'd like to say that we couldn't believe the news when we found out that we produced this year's Odyssey winner, but then again, Bahni Turpin's stellar production in this title has been getting fantastic recognition all year long. A humongous round of applause for her performance in The Hate U Give, this year's Odyssey winner, and a huge thank you to Caitlin Garing at HarperAudio for entrusting us with this production.

We were very honored to discover we worked on 2 of the runner ups as well:

The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, read by Michael Sheen for Listening Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing

A Boy Called Christmasread by Stephen Fry for Listening Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing

A big round of applause to these narrators as well and more thank yous to Penguin Random House for getting to work on these exciting projects.

You can see the full list of honorees here.

 

2018 Audie Finalists Announced

2018 Audie Finalists Announced

The APA announced this year's Audie finalists today! Considered one of the highest honors in the audiobook community, for the past 23 years the Audie Awards have recognized the hard-working narrators and awesome projects we all get to enjoy in our earbuds as we go about our day. With awards in 27 different categories, there's something for everybody to love. Who knows, your next favorite listen may be among them...

Deyan Audio is proud to have participated in the production of 14 nominations this past year, a new record for us! Congratulations to all the narrators, authors, and publishers, without whom none of this would be possible. We can't recommend the following audiobooks highly enough:

 

 

The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness - Narrated by Paula Poundstone - Tantor / Highbridge

(Nominated for Audiobook of the Year AND Best Humor)

The Hate U Give - Narrated by Bahni Turpin - Harper Audio

(Nominated for Best Female Narrator AND Best Young Adult)

Getting There - Narrated by Jorjeana Marie, Renee Ruiz, and Alex Hyde-White - Novel Audio

(Nominated for Best Business / Personal Development)

His Alone - Narrated by Summer Morton and Jay Crow - Harlequin Audio

(Nominated for Best Erotica)

Taking Turns - Narrated by Ava Erickson, Sebastian York, Tad Branson, and Joe Arden - Oh My Audiobooks

(Nominated for Best Erotica

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Narrated by Cathleen McCarron - Penguin Audio

(Nominated for Best Fiction)

Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud - Narrated by January LaVoy - Graymalkin Media

(Nominated for Best History / Biography)

Refugee - Narrated by Michael Goldstrom, Kyla Garcia, and Assaf Cohen - Scholastic Audio

(Nominated for Best Middle Grade)

Restart - Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, Andy Paris, Suzy Jackson, Graham Halstead, and John Kroft - Recorded Books

(Nominated for Best Multi-Voiced Performance)

Don't Let Go - Narrated by Stephen Weber - Brilliance

(Nominated for Best Thriller / Mystery)

Disappeared - Narrated by Roxana Ortega and Christian Barillas - Scholastic Audio

(Nominated for Best Young Adult)

Mother Bruce - Narrated by Rob Dean - Weston Woods

(Nominated for Best Young Listeners)

 

Another round of congratulations to all involved! Check out the full list of finalists here.

More 'Best of 2017' Audiobook Love!

We love celebrating the New Year with good news! Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal Review both released their "Best Audiobooks of 2017" lists and we are delighted to see a few we worked on in our very own studios. Congratulations to all the narrators and publishers involved!

The Hate U Give - Narrated by Bahni Turpin for HarperAudioPublishers Weekly: Best Audiobooks of 2017 (YA)

Refugee - Narrated by Assaf Cohen, Kyla Garcia, and Michael Goldstrom for ScholasticPublishers Weekly: Best Audiobooks of 2017 (YA)

The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness - Narrated by the author, Paula Poundstone for Tantor/HighbridgePublishers Weekly: Best Audiobooks of 2017 (Nonfiction/Memoir)

Frogkisser - Narrated by Marisa Calin for Penguin Random HousePublishers Weekly: Best Audiobooks of 2017 (YA)

The Wangs Vs. The World - Narrated by Nancy Wu for Recorded BooksLibrary Journal Review - Best Media 2017: Audiobooks

Looking to produce your next YA adventure? Are you an author interested in narrating your own memoir? Drop us a line and let's make an amazing audiobook in 2018!