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DANIEL PAISNER is one of the busiest collaborators in publishing. He has written over 70 books, on topics ranging from business and sports to politics and popular culture, including 17 New York Times best-sellers.

He is the host of the popular podcast "AS TOLD TO: The Ghostwriting Podcast," featuring long-form, free-wheeling conversations with some of publishing's top ghostwriters/collaborators - a production of the Writers Bone Podcast Network and available wherever podcasts gather.

He is also the author of the novel, "Balloon Dog," just published by Koehler Books. A darkly comic tale of longing and legacy, "Balloon Dog" tells the story of a brazen art heist gone wrong and prompts readers to consider what it means to leave a mark and what it ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Daniel Paisner I try to ignore it... when I'm working on one of my ghostwriting projects, it's never an issue because the stories I'm telling have already been told …moreI try to ignore it... when I'm working on one of my ghostwriting projects, it's never an issue because the stories I'm telling have already been told and retold... the "block" only finds me when I'm working on a novel, and when that happens I look for a way around... one great trick is to fast-forward to another scene... if I'm stuck on a particular passage, I'll set it aside and find another particular passage that needs writing... invariably, the work on one will shake loose whatever it was that was holding me back on the other... (less)

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Daniel Paisner the idea for my new novel found me over beers one night in Houston... I was in town working on a ghostwriting project, spending the evening with a col…morethe idea for my new novel found me over beers one night in Houston... I was in town working on a ghostwriting project, spending the evening with a colleague of my celebrity client... there was a ballgame on at the bar, and we fell in to talk of baseball... two or three beers in, the colleague mentioned an old-time ballplayer named Fred Dunlap, who was once one of the most celebrated players in the game... I'd never heard of the guy, who at the height of his fame in the 1880s was known to sportswriters and fans as "Sure Shot"... so I looked him up - and, indeed, this guy had somehow put together one of the greatest seasons in baseball history and still managed to die in relative obscurity... I caught myself wondering how it was that you could blaze through life on such a high note, only to leave this world on such a low one, and somewhere in the middle of these wonderings I came up with a story of contemporary protagonist, mired in mediocrity, who believes he is visited by the ghost of Fred "Sure Shot" Dunlap... between the lines of this close encounter, I thought, I'd find a way to look at what it means to live a life worth remembering... or, not - but at least that was the idea, going in... (less)

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	My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau by Daniel Paisner (Goodreads Author), Jean-Michel Cousteau 3.87 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2004 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Single Happened Thing 3.77 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1955 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balloon Dog 4.46 avg rating — 28 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dziewczynka w zielonym sweterku by Daniel Paisner (Goodreads Author), Krystyna Chiger it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SHOW: The Making and Unmaking of a Network Television Pilot by Daniel Paisner (Goodreads Author), Phoef Sutton (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	9月11日の英雄たち―世界貿易センタービルに最後まで残った消防士の手記 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	LAST MAN DOWN: THE FIREMAN'S STORY - THE HEROIC ACCOUNT OF HOW PITCH PICCIOTTO SURVIVED THE COLLAPSE OF THE TWIN TOWERS AND LEAD HIS MEN TO SAFETY 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	My Father, the Captain: My Life With Jacques Cousteau by Jean-Michel Cousteau (2010-05-25) by Daniel Paisner (Goodreads Author), Jean-Michel Cousteau 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Daniel Paisner rated a book it was amazing Beneath the Lightless Sky: Surviving the Holocaust in the Sewers of Lvov (Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII) by Ignacy Chiger	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
One of the great tragedies of our time is that so many stories from the Holocaust are left untold. One of the great blessings is that many of those stories are shared time and time again. Ignacy Chiger's "Beneath the Lightless Sky" offers just such a ...more
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