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Episode 112: E. Danielle Butler

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Release Date: 05/12/2026

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Ghostwriter, developmental editor, and book coach Charles Daly joins us for our “Between the Lines” segment of 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 Army veteran who worked as a demolition supervisor at Ground Zero until a disabling injury five days into the clean-up,  is the untold story of a true American hero who turned trauma into a call to action. In these pages,...

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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 they were told was safe to breathe. Forgotten by a broken healthcare system and lawmakers who had promised to #NeverForget, and inspired by the men and women who continued to suffer in the fallout from...

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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 working on “Monk” and “Diagnosis Murder,” he wrote several original tie-in novels based on those series. Lee is also an accomplished storyteller in his own right—the author...

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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 . Amy's worked primarily as an essayist, an editor, a screenwriter and playwright. She's even published a young adult novel called . She made a whole bunch of noise with the publication of her 2009 breakout book, , a wildly funny and yet achingly wistful...

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Jeff Daniels’s audio memoir/podcast series is the darndest thing. He joined us to promote the launch of “,” a collection of stories, songs, and scenes and monologues from some of the actor’s plays. He followed that launch with a second collection, “,” a year later, and now here we are a few years after that waiting on “Son of Alive and Well Enough” or “Alive and Well Enough Already.” Really, we can’t get enough of this unique storytelling format, and you’ll begin to hear why in this intro to the versatile performer’s follow-up collection. Part podcast, part musical...

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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 “”—a collection of stories, musings and songs that invites listeners into the heart and mindset of one of our most versatile performers, offered with grace and good cheer and midwestern soul.  Daniels, the two-time Emmy...

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Join us as As Told To podcast guest reads a passage from his first novel, , 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’re intrigued by Daniel’s reading, we hope you’ll double back and , in which our guest reflects on the very many ways his very many creative pursuits—as an ad man, vintner, and novelist—have become...

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“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 , 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 religious mystery unfolds in a dark and dazzling literary thriller. The book is a bit of a departure for Daniel Grace, the London-born, California-bred former owner of an internationally-acclaimed advertising...

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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 , the writer and filmmaker lends his collaborative storytelling skills to one of the greatest ballplayers of his generation, known to fans and teammates as “Cobra.” Parker was inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame just weeks after his death in June, 2025, following a decade-long struggle with...

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“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 memoir , with the late Dave Parker, who was inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame just weeks after his death in June 2025, following a decade-long struggle with...

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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 until she became one. “But what I can trace throughout my life are threads of Black writers and storytellers weaving humanity and justice together,” she writes. “Our words are creation. For centuries, we’ve used them to ignite movements, capture legacies, and cement ideas.”

Over the course of her ghostwriting career, Danielle has given voice to men and women who inspire her, and she has made it her mission to ensure that their lives and careers can inspire others—as she set out to do in the book she co-authored with the trailblazing camerawoman Jessie Maple.

Her forthcoming collaboration, Finding God Every Day, written with child star and “Kid Pastor” Luke Tillman, will be published this fall by Zonderkids, the children’s division of Zondervan Publishing.

Join us for an inspiring conversation on what it takes to shine meaningful light on lives well and purposefully lived… through story. 

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