2020 Audie Nominations Announced!

2020 Audie Nominations Announced!

Audie nominations for 2020 have been officially released and we could not be more thrilled to see 5 titles we worked on among them! You can check out the full press release here… and Mo Rocca will be hosting the Gala this year in NYC!

This is going to be an exciting event and we can’t wait to see what happens. A huge congratulations to all the narrators nominated this year, there are some truly inspiring audiobooks that have come our recently, and a big thank you to the publishers who have entrusted us with their titles this past year.

Best Middle Grade

The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart, narrated by Khristine Hvam, published by Macmillan Audio 

Best Mystery

The Chestnut Man by Soren Sveistrup, narrated by Peter Noble, published by HarperAudio

Best Short Stories/Collections

Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorafor and Whoopi Goldberg (foreword), narrated by Yetide Badaki, published by Tantor Audio, a division of Recorded Books

Best Thriller/Suspense

Freefall by Jessica Barry, narrated by Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker, and MacLeod Andrews, published by HarperAudio

Best YA

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas, narrated by Bahni Turpin, published by HarperAudio

2019 Audiobook of the Year!!!

2019 Audiobook of the Year!!!

The 2019 Audies took place this past Monday night, March 4, and for those who haven’t heard… We produced the Audiobook of the Year!

An enormous congratulations to the always amazing Bahni Turpin (is there anything she doesn’t sound amazing narrating?) and the Macmillan Audio team. So many people are involved in the production of a single audiobook, it very much is a team effort and we are fortunate to be a part of some of the best audiobook teams in the world.

Congratulations to all the big winners Monday night as well! You can check out all the winners here.

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2019 Audie Nominees Announced!

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2019 Audie Nominees Announced!

We are honored to announce that titles we’ve worked have been nominated for 10 Audie Awards!

The Audie Awards recognize distinguished performances in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment, and we are beyond thrilled to have worked on these amazing projects amongst such amazing company.


A huge thank you and congratulations to the teams behind these projects, including our friends at Macmillan Audio, Oasis Audio, Scholastic Audio, Blackstone Audio, Peguin Random House, Recorded Books, Lyric Audio and 518 Books, and Weston Woods. Congratulations to these supremely talented narrators and all of our fellow nominees as well! 

We look forward to celebrating with everyone in NY on March 4, come say ‘Hi’ to Deb, Jamie and Koroosh if you’ll be there, we love meeting everyone involved in this industry. And of courser a HUGE thank you to APA for making this all possible!

Celebrating 2018 at Deyan Audio

Celebrating 2018 at Deyan Audio

The Deyan Audio family would like to extend a huge thank you to all the wonderful narrators, producers, engineers, directors and authors we had the pleasure of meeting and working with this year! As we bring another year to a close, we couldn’t be more grateful for all the wonderful people in our lives and the amazing stories we get to help bring to life every day.

If you’ve been following along on Facebook, we’ve been counting down our Top 5 Moments of 2018:

#5 - Participating in the annual ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, in honor of Bob Deyan and all the brave men and women working to find a cure for this terrible disease. We know Bob was someone who always looked for the positive and he’d be overjoyed to see so many people come together every year in support of a common goal.

#4 - Another year of incredible classes at the Deyan Institute! We were honored to host master classes with the likes of Ray Porter, Sean Pratt, Andi Ardnt, Jeffrey Kafer, Grover Gardner, and Julie Wilson, and of course our inimitable host, PJ Ochlan. The feedback from everyone who attended was really amazing and we look forward to more growth and great classes in 2019. Email info@deyaninstitute.com if you want to be the first to hear about when new classes are announced.

#3 - Finding out titles we worked on made it onto a number of year-end “Best of” lists! The greatest honor is getting to work on projects that make a difference in people’s lives, or even better, projects that make the world a brighter place. Thank you to AudioFile Magazine, Audible, and Slate.com for the recognition!

#2 - Along the same lines, seeing everyone’s hard work pay off with a number of big wins keeps us motivated and hungry for more in 2019! Hours and hours of tedious work are painstakingly put into each and every production and it is incredibly satisfying when all that hard work gets the recognition it deserves. For those keeping score, titles we worked on in 2018 won:

  • 17 Audie nominations, and 4 Audie wins

  • 12 SOVAS nominations, and 2 SOVAS wins

  • 28 Earphones Awards

  • the prestigious Odyssey Award AND 2 Odyssey Honors

#1 - Even better than the award wins, though, was getting to work with all of YOU this year! Wonderful voices and magic filled our studios all year long and we are so grateful to call you our community and family. Here’s to continued growth to all in 2019, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Finishing 2018 Strong!

Finishing 2018 Strong!

Wow, we can’t believe 2018 is already winding to a close, but what an exciting year it has been. We were fortunate to be a part of so many amazing audiobook productions and we couldn’t be more proud of the hard work many talented narrators, engineers, and producers put in this year!

The end of the year also means it’s time for many “best of” lists to start popping up, always an exciting time and we have some great news to kick things off below:

Two of our nominees took home SOVAS awards this year, Borne (narrated by Bahni Turpin for Blackstone Audio) and Don’t Let Go (narrated by the Steven Webber for Brilliance Audio.) Congratulations to both Bahni and Steven!

Also, AudioFile recently released their “Best Audiobooks of 2018” list and we had the pleasure of working on 5 of the featured titles:


Thank you to the terrific narrators and production teams for your excellent work, and thank you to the producers at Oasis, Harper, Brilliance, Scholastic, Macmillan, and Blackstone for your trust and friendship; Here’s to many more amazing audiobooks to come!