ODDS
INTERVIEWS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS
NPR
An interview with Weekend Edition’s Book News & Features, So You Need A Celebrity Book. Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghostwriters.
NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE
A autobiographical piece written for the About Men column. The Family Business.
MEDIUM
Three Likes and a Re-Tweet, and article written by Daniel Paisner on book promotion.
THE BOOK SHEPHERD
The Best Baseball Novels You’ve Probably Never Read - a brief survey of under-the-radar baseball fiction, meant to shine a light on Daniel Paisner’s way, way under-the-radar baseball novel.
FUTURE SQUARED PODCAST
A conversation with host Steve Glaveski. Episode #341: Life as a Ghost with Daniel Paisner.
POPLITERACY
A discussion about ghostwriting and celebrity memoirs, Chatting With Daniel Paisner, the Author Who the Stars Share All Their Secrets With.
LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET
Daniel Paisner has been a frequent host of author interviews with some of his celebrity clients. Here he talks with legendary surfer Izzy Paskowitz. There are some glitches in the video intro piece that opens the program, and the video drops out for a couple minutes in the middle-going, but stay with this one for a compelling, free-wheeling conversation with the scion of a legendary California surfing family and the founder of the pioneering surf therapy organization Surfers Healing. Conversations from Main Street.
WSJ
Profile written by Matt McCue for the Wall Street Journal, This Ghost Is a Machine.
ESPN MAGAZINE
Profile on Daniel Paisner. 5 Things You Should Know About Ghost-Writing a Sports Book.
THE MILLIONS
A thinkpiece on How Being a Ghostwriter Has Shaped My Fiction. Also, a review of A Single Happened Thing by author Sonya Chung, as well as another thinker - What Is It About Baseball?.
WRITER’S BONE
Interview by Daniel Ford, Season in the Sun: 10 Questions With Author Daniel Paisner.
Talking baseball and suchlike with Daniel Ford, in opener to Joe Posnanski interview. Episode 498: Joe Posnanski, Author of The Baseball 100.
THE THRIVETIME SHOW
An interview with Clay Clark on Ghostwriting. Daniel Paisner (Ghost-Writer of Choice for Ray Lewis, Denzel Washington, Daymond John) Shares How He Turned His Passion Into Profits
FRIDAY MORNING COFFEE
Writer’s Bone podcast host, Daniel Ford, interviews Daniel Paisner about storytelling, inspiration, and reading.
PWPL
My local library runs a terrific afternoon program for authors and readers called “Sandwiched In.” They were kind enough to invite me to talk about “Balloon Dog.” Alas, there were no sandwiches.
The library also hosts authors in conversation with other authors, and they were kind enough to invite me back during my months-long push to promote “Balloon Dog” to compare notes with fellow LI author Ellen Meister. Here again, no sandwiches.
Joint Author Appearance with LI author Ellen Meister
"Sandwiched In" Author Series - Port Washington Public Library
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES
A podcast interview with Jay Alders on the creative process, personal life and practical advice for aspiring writers. Interview with Daniel Paisner: Author, Ghostwriter and Journalist.
KOBO WRITING LIFE
One of the better podcast interviews I did in support of my latest novel, “Balloon Dog” - we talk about my ghostwriting life and my novel-writing life and life in general… worth a listen…
KWL – 305 – The Voice of a Ghostwriter with Daniel Paisner - Kobo Writing Life
SHORT STORIES | EXCERPTS
GROWTH BY DANIEL PAISNER
It starts like this: Hirsch leans over the sandwich board at the P&S Lunch just after the rush and feels faint. A little touch of the queezywheezies, says Pinskey. Lie down for a little, says Sturgis. Hirsch lies down for a little, on a cot in the back, within a noseful of turned cheese. The fridge is out and he gets this noseful, it's all he needs.
Later, around eight, he gets up and feels fine, like nothing is wrong, except for a beat or two he can't get his bearings. The place is dark, nothing but the fridge lights on, and he pieces things together and soon he knows where he is. Imagine, he thinks, the fridge is out and the lights still work, can you beat that? He gets up, stretches, yawns. Pinskey and Sturgis are gone, and Hirsch uses the key they left for him. I have my own key, Hirsch thinks, locking up.
A SINGLE HAPPENED THING BY DANIEL PAISNER
It was the summer of Monica Lewinsky and Mark McGwire and Armageddon. I was on a short business trip to Philadelphia—a handholding, as it is known in the office. I was sent, via Amtrak, to coddle one of our midlist writers, a frighteningly serious young man who had written a frighteningly serious biography of Benjamin Franklin in which the author claimed to have uncovered letters and papers confirming the latent homosexuality of this particular founding father. In every other respect, his was a good, thorough, scholarly account, the first reappraisal of Franklin’s life in more than a decade, and yet the only piece people seemed to want to talk about was this homosexuality business. I might have known, but that would have painted me a shade brighter at book publicity than I actually was.
The plan, originally, was for me to escort the author to his interviews and appearances, and to be available to accompany him to dinner that evening, but he begged off on dinner. I understood; it must not have been an easy thing to spread such salacious information about a favorite son like Benjamin Franklin, especially to an audience of Mummers and Brotherly Lovers. To have to spend an awkward night on the town with his lowly publicist was perhaps more than he might have thought contractually expected of him.