New Release: TO BE WITH YOU

December 27, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

This one is good. Like ugly cry good. Which I TOTALLY did while recording it. Every. Damn. Chapter.

Because this book took me back to:
The mix tapes.
The angst.
The stupid “rules.”
The better-be-who-they-think-you-should-be’s.

But also:
The belief in possibility.
The belief in yourself.
The belief in love.

Hope you love it too.

TO BE WITH YOU by TJ O’Shea. Now on audio.

From the Publisher:

Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love.

They’re smart enough to know a star-crossed lovers situation never works. Leah’s a loner from the poor side of town, working two jobs, and aching to leave their sleepy hometown in her rear view forever. Victoria lives in a mansion with her overbearing parents, surrounded by friends and known to none of them, living what others consider a charmed life. When Leah rescues Victoria from a freak rainstorm, they discover an unexpected understanding, and an undeniable spark.

Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood should not fall in love, but they do.

Five years after their summer romance flames out, Victoria returns home to visit her dysfunctional family, fiance in tow. She’s shocked to find Leah never left town, and more surprisingly, neither did their feelings for each other. Still hurt over how Victoria ended things Leah resists any reconciliation, despite how hotly the embers of their love burn.

Leah Vasquez and Victoria Lockwood definitely should not fall in love . . . again.

Of course, even if Leah can open her bruised heart to the only girl she ever loved, Victoria must make a life-changing choice: love safely or love bravely.

TO BE WITH YOU can be found wherever audiobooks are sold, including Libro.fm, Chirp, Audiobooks.com, Apple Books, Amazon, and Audible.

New Release: HER MERCENARY

December 23, 2022December 22, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

Audiobook cover for with black background with a blood-red plumeria flower whose petal edges morph into blood splatters. Text in yellow-orange lettering: Amanda McKinney HER MERCENARY Happy audiobook release day for HER MERCENARY (Steele Shadows Mercenaries) by the amazing Amanda McKinney!

I absolutely loved narrating this romantic suspense with the swoony-voiced Alan Carlson.

Hope you enjoy it!

Publisher’s Summary

The best-selling and award-winning Steele Shadows series continues in this new protector romance spin-off series, packed with page-turning mystery, steamy angst, exotic locations, and four dangerously attractive mercenaries.

She was supposed to be the mission. She became his undoing.

When American schoolteacher Samantha Greene goes missing in Mexico, the US government calls on private military firm, Astor Stone Inc., to assist in finding her. Former soldier Roman Thieves volunteers for the case, seizing the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone. After all, no one knows the dark underworld of human trafficking like he does—or knows exactly how involved he is in their business dealings.

When the mission falls apart, Roman finds himself on the run with the blonde-haired, green-eyed bombshell, seeking refuge in the untamed wilderness of the Sierra Madre Mountains—on a trail rumored to be haunted, nonetheless. With only a small bag of provisions, they must battle the elements, including scorching hot temperatures, and work together to outsmart the savage predators hunting them.

As his motives become clouded by a fierce need to protect Sam, Roman must choose between avenging his past and saving the woman who snuck her way into his heart.
Her Mercenary will thrill fans of Jodi Ellen Malpas, Meghan March, and Susan Stoker.

Each audiobook is a standalone romantic suspense, no cliffhangers.

The audiobook for HER MERCENARY is available exclusively on Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

New Release: HOLD

December 22, 2022December 20, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

Audiobook cover: a black background with a pile of pharmaceutical capsules and tablets in bright colors (pink, green, blue, white, red and yellow) spilled on a black surface. The title is "HOLD" in large red letters. Underneath the title, smaller white font reads: A medical murder mystery. Amy S. Peele You guys.

HOLD, the third book in Amy S. Peele’s medical mystery series is now on audio!

Sarah and Jackie’s adventures continue in their long-awaited vacation in Cuba, but when they return home, they find another thing amiss in the transplant world. All I can say is: in this one, trouble will find trouble, no matter where Sarah and Jackie go. 😉

Special thanks to Scribe Media!

From the Publisher:

Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen promised their partners they were out of the detective business. They declared “game over” after both of them almost lost their lives trying to solve their last medical mystery, and they’re happy with that decision: Sarah has finally allowed love and romance into her life, Jackie’s marriage is solid, and Jackie’s son, Wyatt, is still doing great with his year-old kidney transplant.

So when they go on their dream trip to Cuba, they are not looking for trouble. But all their plans go out the window when a desperate plea from a Cuban transplant surgeon puts the duo in serious danger with the Cuban government on the same day the four most prominent immunologists in the world—doctors who were on the verge of solving the huge rejection issues that have plagued the transplant community for more than 50 years—are killed in a car accident in Chicago.

Soon, Sarah and Jackie find themselves dragged into the bowels of investigating venture capitalists and corporate greed—a terrain they know nothing about. As they uncover suspect clinical trials at major US transplant centers, including Sarah’s, their usual friends Biker Bob and Officer Handsome aren’t able to help them much, but they do receive assistance from an unlikely source: Sergio, who they helped to land in prison in Florida (and who is trying to win back his girlfriend), offers his help from the inside. Sarah and Jackie are armed with smarts, humor, and enough persistence to help them face the white-collared demons of corporate America—but with dangerous players gunning for them and death threats being made against their families, will they be able to solve this mystery before someone else gets hurt?

HOLD can be purchased wherever audiobooks are sold, including Libro.fm, Chirp, Audiobooks.com, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon.

SOVAS Winner: Best Biography Narration

December 19, 2022December 19, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

An acting headshot picture of Amy Deuchler smiling in front of a brightly lit white background. In the foreground is the audiobook cover of WE WALK: Life with Severe Autism by Amy S.F. Lutz. Amy's photo and the audiobook cover are framed in black with a shiny golden image of a SOVAS award. Text: 9th Voice Arts Awards, Amy Deuchler, Winner, Audiobook Narration, Biography I am completely flabbergasted (in a good way!) to learn that WE WALK: LIFE WITH SEVERE AUTISM won the 2022 SOVAS* award for best biography!

“In this collection of beautiful and raw essays, Amy S. F. Lutz writes openly about her experience—the positive and the negative—as a mother of a now twenty-one-year-old son with severe autism.”

Thank you so much to Amy S. F. Lutz for trusting me to tell Jonah’s story, to Margy at University Press/Redwood Audiobooks for extending great patience, and everyone at the SOVAS organization for their hard work. I am honored. ❤️

This win also wouldn’t have happened without the amazing support of the audiobook community narrators and coaches. Specifically, the two coaches Sean Allen Pratt (a.k.a. The Ginger Yoda) and PJ Ochlan (Dr. Dialect). I tried to infuse this narration project with everything they taught me (so thank you Sean and PJ).

The print version** of WE WALK was reviewed by the New York Times and the audiobook is also an AudioFile Magazine Earphone Award Winner. If you would like to learn more about Amy S. F. Lutz and her son Jonah, PBS recently featured them on a documentary “Living with Profound Autism” as part of their IN A DIFFERENT KEY series. If you would like to listen to the audiobook of WE WALK, you can find it on Apple Books, Amazon and Audible.

*Society of Voice Arts and Sciences

**Print version published by Cornell University Press; Audiobook published by University Press Audiobooks/Redwood Audiobooks.

New Release: REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN

December 17, 2022December 17, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa made an early delivery.

The coziest mystery REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN by Vicki Delany released to audio this week!

Whoo-ee, this year-round Christmas town has one set of quirky characters – I had quite a few chuckles in the audio booth while recording it. And I’m pretty sure the author added the cutest ever Saint Bernard puppy just to warm my heart. Hope you enjoy this listen as much as I did recording it.

Special thanks to Tantor Audio.

Look for book 2 in the series, coming in January!

From the Publisher:

In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer in the first Year-Round Christmas Mystery.

As the owner of Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, Merry Wilkinson knows how to decorate homes for the holidays. That’s why she thinks her float in the semi-annual Santa Claus parade is a shoe-in for best in show. But when the tractor pulling Merry’s float is sabotaged, she has to face facts: there’s a Scrooge in Christmas Town.

Merry isn’t ready to point fingers, especially with a journalist in town writing a puff piece about Rudolph’s Christmas spirit. But when she stumbles upon the reporter’s body on a late night dog walk — and police suspect he was poisoned by a gingerbread cookie crafted by her best friend, Vicky — Merry will have to put down the jingle bells and figure out who’s really been grinching about town, before Vicky ends up on Santa’s naughty list . . .

REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMEN can be found wherever audiobooks are sold, including Libro.fm, Chirp, Audiobooks.com, Amazon, and Audible.

New Release: MATCH

November 15, 2022December 2, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

Audiobook cover: a black background with white liquid splashing onto a black surface. The title is "MATCH" in large red letters. Underneath the title, smaller white font reads: A medical murder mystery. Amy S. Peele Hey! You can now listen to Sarah and Jackie’s crime-solving adventures in MATCH, the second book in the medical mystery series by Amy S. Peele. While Sarah deals with the latest work crisis at in the transplant department, Jackie will stop and nothing to make sure her son is safe and healthy.

Also: Jackie may be my spirit crush.

Thanks to Scribe Media for the opportunity!

From the Publisher:

What do politics, living donor kidney transplants, and the current opioid crisis all have in common?

Sarah Golden and Jackie Larsen, best friends since nursing school, could never have imagined that they’d end up as amateur sleuths searching to find a killer—for the second time! Jackie, a stay-at-home mom with marriage troubles, is racing the clock to get her young son, Wyatt, a living kidney donor to avoid the ravages of dialysis. Sarah, who has been living her career in the fast-paced world of organ transplantation, is helping expedite Wyatt’s kidney transplant. Then a much-despised hospital colleague turns up dead of an opiate overdose—despite the fact that she’d never used drugs and Sarah smells foul play. Her curiosity and tenacity pull Jackie, once again, into a life-and-death adventure that neither woman could have expected.

Armed with smarts, tenacity, big hearts, and their raucous senses of humor, the pair gets the help of a few colorful friends to pursue the killer and take on the mission in the only style they both know how: straight on and arm-in-arm as the friends they’ve always been.

MATCH is available at most audiobook retailers, including Libro.fm, Chirp, Amazon, and Audible.

New Release: GHOSTS & GRAVITY

November 8, 2022November 8, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

An audiobook cover showing a photo of an old red brick New York apartment building windows and fire escape stairs in the 1970s. The windows reflect golden sunrise on the building. Text in white casual cursive script: Ghosts & Gravity. Other text: Anthology benefitting VETSports. Forward by Randy Tharpe

I’m thrilled that this audio project, sponsored by The Audio Flow and narrated by a stunningly talented cast, is officially launching on November 11th! GHOSTS & GRAVITY is a collection of stories that weaves together the lives and souls living in a New York apartment in the 1970s.

I’m honored to have lent my voice to two stories in the GHOSTS & GRAVITY anthology: Chrysalide and The Guardian.

Proceeds from this limited edition anthology will benefit VETSports, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing Veterans with continuous opportunities to reintegrate into their communities through sports, community service, events, and partnerships.

Join us for a Clubhouse chat to celebrate the audio release with the authors, narrators, and producers on Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2022 at 11am.

From the Publisher:

New York City, 1972.

Between Central Park and the East River sits an apartment building as tall as a castle and as orange as a sunset. The Wellraven barely pricks a skyline so grand, but its curious history reaches out through occupants, young and old.

Eleven stories chronicle the life and times of characters who cross paths and share destiny’s fire escape. Ghosts, gravity, romance, and secrets weave the communal narrative.

Step into the elevator. Push any button, but try to remember your way back out. Not everybody makes it.

GHOSTS & GRAVITY is available on Audible and Amazon.

The anthology includes stories by: Jennifer Locklear, Morgan Locklear, B.T. Urruela, Anne Malcom, Shani Struthers, Becca Vry, Ai Tran, D.L. Hartman, Susan K. Swords, Kris Babe, A.S. Orton, Christopher Winks, Rumer Haven

Audio was produced by The Audio Flow and narrated by a full cast: Aaron Shedlock, Amy Deuchler, Amy Landon, Andrea Emmes, Deanna Anthony, Hillary Huber, James R. Cheatham, Jocqueline M. Protho, Krys Janae, Lydia Palmer, Marnye Young, Michael Wolfe, Noya Einhorn, Teri Clarke Linden, Zachary Johnson

Coming Soon to Audio: Year-Round Christmas Mysteries

November 1, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

A picture of a middle-aged woman with blue eyes and rosy cheeks. She is in a library and wears a green t-shirt and a red Santa hat. She is smirk-smiling as she holds up a paperback book of Rest Ye Merry Gentleman by Vicki Delany. Rows of library books are in the background. Now that it’s November, I can finally reveal my ABSOLUTE JOY that I’m narrating Vicki Delany’s A Year-Round Christmas Mystery series!!! Christmas is my favorite holiday and mysteries are my favorite genre, and now I must go solve a murder or five in the booth.

Look for the audio for first book, REST YE MURDERED GENTLEMAN by Vicki Delany, in December.

Thank you, Tantor Audio!

From the Publisher:

Book 1: In Rudolph, New York, it’s Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone’s holiday cheer in the first Year-Round Christmas mystery.

Book 2: A grinch is spoiling the holiday cheer and causing fear in the second Year-Round Christmas mystery from the author of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen…

Book 3: Santa’s summer vacation plans turn deadly in this festive mystery from the author of Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen and We Wish You a Murderous Christmas.

Book 4: Residents of Rudolph keep the spirit of Christmas alive year-round—but their joy is threatened when a group of grinches visits the town, in the charming fourth installment of the Year-Round Christmas series.

Book 5: In the town of Rudolph, New York, the Christmas season should make spirits bright, but as the year comes to an end, so does a life, in the fifth installment of this charming cozy mystery series.

New Release: CUT

October 5, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

Audiobook cover: a black background with a stark photo of a hand in a white surgical glove holding a scalpel as if it is ready to make a surgical cut into the title. The title is "CUT" in large red letters. Underneath the title, smaller white font reads: A medical murder mystery. Amy S. Peele Whoo! CUT, the first book in the medical mystery series by Amy S. Peele is now on audio! So many characters (and boy, some of them definitely were. Read: Jackie). This book was a great combination of a serious subject with a little humorous adventure on the side.

Thanks to Scribe Media for the opportunity!

From the Publisher:

While the federal government is launching a national investigation on the “equity” of organ distribution, a female tech CEO flies across country to get a liver transplant. Soon, well-respected transplant nurse Sarah Golden and her best friend, Jackie, find themselves tangled up in an intense plot to uncover the answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Can you buy your way up to the top of the waiting list?

Their pursuit of justice brings them to Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago—a sometimes fun, sometimes dangerous roller coaster ride from which they barely escape with their lives.

CUT is available where most audiobooks are sold, including Audible, Libro.fm, Chirp, and Audiobooks.com.

New Release: The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids

October 3, 2022 amy@amydeuchler.comAudiobooks

audiobook cover wth white background, for The Gender Identity Workbook for Kids (in mauve lettering): A Guide to Exploring Who You Are (in sky blue letters). A full length of a child about 4 years old wearing a black leotard, a poofy tutu in light blue and mauve. The child is spinning, making the skirt expand. Other text: 37 simple, fun activites to help kids. By Kelly Stork LCSW I’m honored to have narrated this workbook that released last month! THE GENDER IDENTITY WORKBOOK FOR KIDS by Kelly Stork LCSW allows children, their parents, families, and all others involved in a child’s development help guide children in fully exploring who they really are — inside and out.

From the Publisher:

Transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) children need validation and support on their journey toward self-discovery. Unfortunately, due to stigma and misinformation, these kids can be especially vulnerable to bullying, discrimination, and even mental health issues such as anxiety or depression. The good news is that there are steps you can take to empower your child as they explore, understand, and affirm their gender identity. This important workbook will guide you both.

In this guide, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in gender-nonconforming youth offers real tools to help your child thrive in all aspects of life. You and your child will discover a more expansive way of understanding gender; gain insight into gender diverse thoughts, feelings, and experiences; and find engaging activities with fun titles such as “Apple, Oranges, and Fruit Bowls” and “Pronoun Town” to help your child to explore their own unique identity in a way that is age-appropriate and validating.

No child experiences gender in a vacuum, and children don’t just transition—families do. Let this workbook guide you and your child on this important journey in their lives.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

THE GENDER IDENTITY WORKBOOK FOR KIDS is available wherever audiobooks are sold, including Libro.fm, Chirp, and Audible.