What’s your story?

“Charlie has a keen perspective on writing and can identify themes in a work even the author may have overlooked.”
— Chris Pavlak, Author of From Lawyer to Warrior

Charles Daly, “Charlie,”is the co-author of Make Peace or Die: A Life of Service, Leadership, and Nightmares, which was featured on Jocko Podcast. He has worked as a developmental editor on bestselling military memoirs including From Lawyer to Warrior and Civil: Life After the Foreign Legion.

His work has appeared in The Boston Globe, We are the Mighty, Kōkatat, and Thought Catalog. He lives in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland with his wife, Dominique Müller, a Swiss crime novelist, and their cat, Serge.

He serves as a maritime first responder on his local Lifeboat. He has also worked as an English teacher in Korea and a defamed Stop & Shop cashier

“This is the kind of book I love—a true-life memoir of a man who lived (and is still living) a multi-dimensional life of war, love, family, and service … and who writes about it like a bandit.”

- Steven Pressfield, on Make Peace or Die

Epic side projects

Notes from a Ghost 👻 - a podcast about stories and the people how tell them.

The Lap - I’m training for my second attempt to kayak around Ireland— Subscribe to follow the adventure.
Here’s the story of my first attempt.