It’s been a wild fun ride for the past four months, and after some long delays at Amazon-ACX / Audible due to the pandemic, the audiobook for Once upon a Mulberry Field is finally here! Yes. For real. And it sounds like a million bucks, well worth the wait—thanks to Treg Monty, my narrator and producer.

Mulberry Field is a pretty big book (400 pages), filled with characters of diverse backgrounds—Vietnamese, French, and American, male and female—speaking in three languages with various accents (four if one also counts the military acronyms as a mysterious language with a pronunciation all its own). To make his task even more challenging, the narrator has to try to convey the characters’ states of mind (often in great turmoil) while not letting himself get swept away by the emotions of the moment.

I knew better than to attempt it myself. Entered Treg Monty, a professional actor and musician who I met after conducting an audition on Amazon-ACX. And the rest, as they say, is history. We worked really well together as we both shared a deep appreciation for the material and brought perspectives to it that might sometimes seem different at first but often turned out to be complementary.

The result is, in my opinion, a phenomenal audiobook that really brings to life this complex story that I had lived and breathed for six long years. I couldn’t be happier, and I even dare venture the same for Treg.

The audiobook is now listed on Amazon alongside with the paperback and Kindle editions. To open the link, click HERE.
It is also listed on Audible (click HERE) as well as on iTunes. When visiting these websites, don’t forget to listen to the 3-minute sample.

Last but not least, to celebrate this exciting occasion I am offering the Kindle version of Once upon a Mulberry Field at $0.99 for a limited time. Please help spread the word. On a happy ending note, the Kindle book is performing really well: it became, for the first time, the #1 Bestseller in Vietnam War History on Halloween Eve (Friday October 30). As I’m writing this post on Saturday afternoon, it is still perched at the top, hopefully for a while yet. The longer the better, as far as I’m concerned!

And now, put your earphones on, kick back, and enjoy a listen!