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"'Frasier' didn't only define a period of my mom's life," writes Isabella Kathryn Coben, in the foreword to the memoir she co-wrote with her mother , the actress Jane Leeves, best known for her role as "Daphne Moon" on the long-running NBC sitcom. "It defined a period of mine." Yes, it did, and in the pages of Daphne & Me: My Life on 'Frasier' (and a Bit More) , she helps her mum give voice to her...

"This was a tough ask of me, to write a book," offers the Emmy-nominated actress Jane Leeves, as she celebrates the publication of her memoir Daphne & Me: My Life on "Frasier" (and a Bit More) . "I'm a very, very private person, and I wasn't on board with it at first. They offered me a ghostwriter, and I thought, 'I'll never be able to open up to a stranger.' So my husband said, 'Well, what about...

"This isn't your typical baseball memoir. It's about spies and lies far more than RBIs." That's a line from the opening pages of Dave Winfield's gritty, gripping new baseball memoir Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx , written in collaboration with As Told To podcast guest Alan Maimon . Alan joins us in our "Between the Lines" segment, as he shares a passage...

October baseball is in the air—and in this episode, it'll be in your ears as well. Podcast guest Alan Maimon is just out with his latest baseball collaboration—this one written with Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.  Touching All the Bases: A Story of Power, Purpose, and Surviving the Bronx , from BenBella Books, is a baseball memoir with teeth, an unvarnished look at a life and c...

"Our desire to celebrate this magical moment is a tribute to youth, to everyone's youth, when working and playing with your best friends is a dream you never want to end." That's As Told To podcast guest Nick Davis , writing in the companion volume to his critically-acclaimed documentary " You Had To Be There: How the Toronto 'Godspell' Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Cr...

Nick Davis is a writer, producer and documentary filmmaker . His latest film, " You Had To Be There: How the Toronto 'Godspell' Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (In a Canadian Kind of Way) ," opened the 2025 Toronto Film Festival and is currently playing in theaters across the country. The documentary, with a mouthful of a title,...

Ghostwriter, developmental editor, and book coach Charles Daly joins us for our "Between the Lines" segment of As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast , to share a reading from his latest collaboration—a powerful account of the struggles of first responders in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Written in collaboration with noted advocate and activist John Feal, an...

John Feal is a native New Yorker and Army veteran who worked as a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero until an 8,000-pound beam crushed his left foot during the clean-up. As he struggled with his own post-9/11 trauma, and scrambled to get out from under his also-disabling medical bills, he watched his fellow responders suffer and die from cancer and other ailments caused by the dust in the air th...

This episode originally aired on Sept. 12, 2023. Novelist, screenwriter, producer and publisher Lee Goldberg knows what it is to work in collaboration. He has helped to write and produce a number of television shows, including "seaQuest" and "Monk," and he also served as a supervising producer and executive producer of the long-running series "Diagnosis Murder," starring Dick Van Dyke.   While wor...

This episode originally aired February 1, 2022. Amy Ferris writes like a dream. About love. Also: strength, humanity, depression, aging, inspiration, resilience. But mostly about love. It's kind of her thing—a thing that led her to her first gig as a collaborator, a dual memoir from Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons and Justine Simmons called  Old School Love . Amy's worked primarily as an essayist, an edi...

Jeff Daniels's audio memoir/podcast series is the darndest thing. He joined us on the podcast in October 2023 to promote the launch of " Alive and Well Enough ," a collection of stories, songs, and scenes and monologues from some of the actor's plays. He followed that launch with a second collection, " Alive and Well Enough Continues ," a year later, and now here we are a few years after that wait...

This episode originally aired Oct 10, 2023. "Sometimes I'm asked if I'll ever write a book," notes actor, playwright and singer-songwriter Jeff Daniels, "and I always answer that I already have. It's in my songs." This is true. But now it's also true that the stuff of Jeff Daniels's life is on delightful display in the Audible Originals memoir " Alive and Well Enough "—a collection of stories, mus...

Join us as  As Told To podcast guest Daniel Grace reads a passage from his first novel, In the Wake of Golgotha , just published by the indie press Koehler Books.   Grace, a veteran ad agency executive and acclaimed winemaker, turns his creative talents to an entirely new form of expression with the publication of his first-novel, a modern-day retelling of "the greatest story ever told."   If you'...

"There is no crime to fit this sentence; there is no sentence to fit this crime." The words of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate echo across the centuries in Daniel Grace's first novel In the Wake of Golgotha , a daring retelling of "the greatest story ever told." As the specter of Pilate collides with a modern-day incarnation of Judas Iscariot in the shadows of a New York City basement, a profound...

As Told To podcast guest Dave Jordan reads his favorite passage from the baseball memoir he helped to write with the late, great Dave Parker—a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a three-time Gold Glove winner, a two-time World Series champion, and the 1978 National League MVP. In Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood , the writer and filmmaker lends his collaborative storytellin...

"We ain't doin' none of this Tuesdays with Morrie shit," baseball great Dave Parker once told his collaborator Dave Jordan, as they worked together on the soon-to-be-Hall-of-Famer's memoir. "We goin' out poetic and wild." As Told To podcast guest Dave Jordan is a writer and filmmaker and founder of Instream Sports, a pioneering athlete-author writing platform. He is the co-author of the acclaimed...

Upon publication, acclaimed chef and restaurateur Beejhy Barhany's  Gursha: Timeless Recipes for Modern Kitchens, from Ethiopia, Israel, Harlem, and Beyond was hailed by The New York Times as "a work of extraordinary scope and ambition." In the hands of As Told To podcast guest Elisa Ung , the award-winning book collaborator and food writer, her story leaps off the page and invites readers to tast...

Best-selling ghostwriter Elisa Ung credits her lifelong love of musicals with gifting her the tools she relies on in her collaborative work. "They've taught me to listen for rhythms and cadences in authors' voices," she writes. "They help me understand how to respect readers by telling the most powerful story in the least amount of time." Elisa's path to this type of storytelling might seem famili...

"Sometimes my memories feel like a dream," writes Brandy, the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and actress, in collaboration with New York Times best-selling author and As Told To podcast guest Gerrick Kennedy . In this "Between the Lines" episode, we revisit a passage from Brandy's just-published memoir Phases , in which she reflects on the inspiration for her title. As you list...

"You're a co-pilot, you are a therapist, you are an archivist," reflects journalist and cultural critic Gerrick Kennedy of his role as a ghostwriter. Kennedy is the co-author of the just-published memoir Phases , from singer, songwriter and actress Brandy—an immediate #1 New York Times best-seller. He is the author of two previous books, and his work has appeared in a variety of publications, incl...

In this "Between the Lines" episode, we look back at Harvey Araton's 2011 classic When the Garden Was Eden: Clyde, the Captain, Dollar Bill, and the Glory Days of the New York Knicks . In any other NBA post-season, Harvey's latest book, The Goal of the Game , a soccer novel for young adults about a seventh-grader who discovers the power of the beautiful game to hurt and to heal, would be spotlight...

Harvey Araton is not quite ready to set down his pen. After covering sports for more than 40 years for the Staten Island Advance, the New York Post , the New York Daily News and The New York Times , where he served as a "Sports of the Times" columnist for more than 15 years, he continues to write. His latest book, The Goal of the Game , a soccer novel for young adults about a seventh-grader who di...

Join us for our "Between the Lines" feature, as we shine an extra shaft of light on the work of our podcast guest. In this installment, we're highlighting a memoir entitled The Maple Crew , by pioneering filmmaker Jessie Maple, written in collaboration with As Told To podcast guest E. Danielle Butler . The book stands on Danielle's bookshelf as a compelling example of her work, and her commitment...

Narratives that matter. That's the lane currently occupied by "collaborative storyteller" E. Danielle Butler, co-author of more than two dozen books, many of them written with business executives, pioneering artists, and faith leaders, helping to translate lived experience into lasting legacy. It's a path she didn't know she was meant to walk. In fact, she didn't even know what a ghostwriter was u...

In our latest "Between the Lines" installment, we shine a light on the best-selling collection of inspirational profiles by former "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell – the New York Times best-seller We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America , written with journalist and author Kate Andersen Brower. Brower, our current podcast guest , a former White House reporter for Bloomberg News...