{"id":1914,"date":"2021-10-05T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T06:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2024-04-06T18:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T01:19:03","slug":"audiobook-now-on-sale-finding-george-washington-a-time-travel-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billzarchy.com\/blog\/audiobook-now-on-sale-finding-george-washington-a-time-travel-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiobook Now On Sale\u2014\u2018Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am thrilled to hear my words come to life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I close my eyes and listen to\u00a0David Boyll\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0dramatic reading, I can see all the scenes in my mind\u2019s eye, the closest thing to a movie version of my story,\u00a0Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David has done a fantastic job narrating the book and acting out all the parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I didn\u2019t appreciate the popularity of audiobooks until I published Finding George <\/em>in November, 2020. From Day One, I received numerous queries about whether I was planning an audiobook and when it might be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full disclosure: I\u2019m not a good auditory learner. When I read books, I study the texts, on paper or on screen, sometimes reading a few pages at a time, sometimes rereading paragraphs and whole pages two or three times for comprehension. This habit of going back and rereading has made audiobooks difficult for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But many potential buyers have told me they don\u2019t read books anymore, they listen to them. And that convinced me to get off the dime, dive in, and produce an audiobook edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was delighted when David agreed to take on this project. We had known each other for a long time, through our common roots in film and video production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journey<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI thoroughly enjoyed the journey Bill created for the Father of Our Country and the oddball characters he meets along the way,\u201d says David. \u201cThe addition of baseball to the story was particularly compelling to me, since I am an avid Giants fan, like several of the main characters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, David has won the Bay Area Theatre Critics\u2019 Circle Award, and I\u2019ve been impressed by his acting in three plays: He portrayed an English classics professor in Partition<\/em> at the Berkeley City Club; a daytime TV doctor in a Zoom performance of Quack<\/em> by Shotgun Players; and the compulsive neatnik Felix Unger in The Odd Couple<\/em> at Ross Valley Players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plus, he has performed in improv for years. He is versatile, adept at creating a variety of characters, and happy to record and edit the audiobook in his home studio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause of George Washington\u2019s reputation as a statesman and general, I was initially skeptical that he could be made sympathetic and relevant to a modern reader,\u201d says David. \u201cThe cultural and historical divide between the late 18th<\/sup> Century and the 21st<\/sup> seemed insurmountable, but it turned out this was one of the most enjoyable things about the story. His humanity and likeability surprised me, and his struggles with being \u2018out of time\u2019 made this larger-than-life historical figure accessible and relatable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As David and I discussed the project, one of our main decisions centered on George Washington\u2019s accent. Because George lived long before the advent of audio recording, there is no record of how he sounded, beyond several historical mentions of his reputation as a rather soft-spoken orator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accent Nerd<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Should he sound like a Southerner? David, to my delight, confessed to being a bit of an Accent Nerd. Washington, of course, was a Virginian, but modern Southern accents as we know them hadn\u2019t really developed yet in George\u2019s era. It made sense for him to sound British, based on his heritage, though his people had emigrated from Western England nearly 100 years before the American Revolution. And the current \u201cposh\u201d King\u2019s English accent we\u2019re most familiar with (think BBC) is a 20th<\/sup> Century pedagogical creation called Received Pronunciation \u2014 not necessarily an accurate representation of speech patterns of the late 18th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are many other regional twangs across England. British TV shows feature a variety of regional accents: Endeavour, Last Tango in Halifax, Unforgotten, Grantchester, Downton Abbey, William and Mary, Call the Midwife, Prime Suspect, <\/em>etc. <\/em>What made sense to both of us was something close to a British West Cdounties accent, similar to that used by actor David Morse in his portrayal of Washington in the mini-series John Adams.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David\u2019s highly attuned ear served him well in creating distinct differences in how the characters sound in the recording of the book. It\u2019s amazing to hear him acting out dialogues among several characters!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BIO \u2014 DAVID BOYLL<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

Following a 30-year hiatus working behind the camera in Film and Video production, David Boyll made his return to scripted theatre in 2017, \u201cdelivering a full load of crazy\u201d in his breakout role as Bernard B. O\u2019Hare in the World Premiere of Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s Mother Night<\/em> at Custom Made Theatre Company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David\u2019s portrayal of Professor Alfred Billington in Partition<\/em> at Indra\u2019s Net Theater, was called \u201centertainingly stodgy,\u201d and of his performance in Neil Simon\u2019s The Odd Couple<\/em> at Ross Valley Players, one critic wrote, \u201cBoyll\u2019s Felix delights. His nasal honking and victim-posing brings enjoyable life to a potentially difficult character.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David is a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics\u2019 Circle Award 2020 for Featured Actor for his performance in Custom Made Theatre Company\u2019s production of Bess Wohl\u2019s American Hero<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 2013 and 2020, David improvised over one hundred plays and musicals with Un-Scripted Theater Company. As a member of Improv Lab, he\u2019s performed at festivals in San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Santa Monica, and at SF Sketchfest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to audiobooks, David has voiced national commercials, portrayed characters in hit video games, and has interacted with hundreds of millions of customers via automated voice response. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in New York City, David grew up in a performing family, his parents both classical vocalists. They moved to San Francisco when David was five and he\u2019s lived there ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More about David at www.davidboyll.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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