Daniel Paisner is the author or coauthor of over 70 books, including 17 New York Times bestsellers. He has collaborated on the autobiographies and memoirs of dozens of celebrities, such as Serena Williams, Denzel Washington, Whoopi Goldberg, John Kasich and Steve Aoki. He is also the host of the popular podcast As Told To: The Ghostwriting Podcast
This is the inside story of one of those doomed TV pilots, a would-be 1990 sitcom about presidential speechwriters first titled E.O.B., then The War Room, and finally Word of Mouth, developed by the acclaimed writer/producerteam of Bruce Paltrow, Tom Fontana, and John Tinker, fresh off of their Emmy award-winning success St. Elsewhere and in huge demand by the networks. The producers granted journalist Daniel Paisner unprecedented access, revealing for the first time exactly how television gets made… and how it doesn’t.