Interview With Business Experts Michael Pino & Andrew Lopianowski On AI & Their New Book

1. What is the premise behind your new, breakthrough book, HumanCorps?  HumanCorps is a practical blueprint for redesigning organisations for the Wisdom Age: a time when advantage comes less from information, and more from judgement — making good decisions under uncertainty, at speed, with ethics and context. In a BANI world (i.e., brittle, anxious, non-linear, and often incomprehensible), Industrial-Age hierarchy and control no longer scale. Performance now depends on releasing human ownership and agency at every level and then augmenting that human system with synthetic capabilities that help us overcome our biological limits in complexity and scale. We call that partnership Synthetic Symbiosis. Technology isn’t the point; it’s the enabler. The book shows how mindset, purpose, leadership, decision making, information transparency, culture, and measurement must evolve so humans and AI can create enduring value together. HumanCorps is both compass and operating blueprint.

 

2. Why do Industrial-Age transformation models keep failing in Knowledge / Wisdom-Age conditions? Most transformation models assume stability: define a target operating model, roll it out, then “refreeze”. But organisations are now living in constant disruption. When the environment changes faster than the programme, transformation becomes theatre — new rituals, new dashboards, little real change. HumanCorps challenges the idea that you can bolt modern tools onto an old operating system. If you keep Taylorist assumptions — control, top-down decision-making, individualised performance — you don’t get better outcomes; you get faster dysfunction. The alternative is to build a complex adaptive system: minimal structure, distributed decision rights, transparency, experimentation, and learning as the operating logic.

 

3. What do most organisations get wrong about AI adoption right now? Most organisations are experimenting, but many are still treating AI like procurement or a productivity add‑on. They run pilots, roll out copilots, and hope behaviour changes.

The common pattern is speed without direction: AI makes existing processes faster, but the underlying decision bottlenecks, siloed information, and incentive problems remain. Adoption also gets stuck because people aren’t trained to collaborate with AI critically, and because trust is fragile — fear of replacement, fear of mistakes, fear of governance consequences.

Where it goes well, leaders pair AI with transparency, clear decision rights, and psychological safety so teams can question outputs, learn quickly, and apply AI to real decisions, not just tasks.

 

4. What is the “HumanCorps Synth,” and what should people not assume it is? The Synth is a practical vision of a “digital twin” companion — more than a chatbot — that learns with you, supports reflection, and helps you navigate complexity at work. In the book, we use it to make the future tangible: a system that can bring together your goals, organisational context, real-time information, and collaboration patterns, and then act as a sparring partner for thinking and decision-making. What it is not: a replacement for accountability, a black box that dictates outcomes, or a way to bypass human judgement. A well-designed Synth must be permissioned, transparent, and aligned to human outcomes. It should scaffold better questions, not outsource responsibility.

 

5. Why do so many organisations feel stuck, even when they are successful and profit margins are strong? Success can hide brittleness. Strong margins can create a false sense of control, leading organisations to double down on what worked — more process, more targets, more hierarchy — until the environment shifts and the system can’t adapt. HumanCorps describes learned helplessness at scale: people see the dysfunction but feel unauthorised to change it, so they point upward and wait. Add change fatigue from endless transformations, and you get inertia. The paradox is that over‑managed systems often become riskier: when people feel disempowered to take any risk, problems go underground and decision quality drops. HumanCorps “unsticks” organisations by restoring agency through purpose, decision rights, transparency, and a culture of experimentation.

 

6. What’s the “Leadership Delta” — and what must leaders unlearn? Leadership Delta is the shift leaders must make to thrive in HumanCorps conditions: from being the source of answers to being the designer of conditions. Instead of power‑based leadership — being “in charge” and having all the answers — leaders become creators of conditions: they facilitate better questions, foster collective sensemaking, distribute authority, and enable others to lead. Leadership Delta goes deeper than skills; it includes identity (humility, groundedness, belief in others), cognitive capability (systems thinking, business and financial acumen), and real‑time dynamics (emotional regulation and social awareness). In an AI‑rich world, leadership is less about command and more about designing distributed capability.

 

7. What are the most common reasons AI projects fail (beyond technology)?

AI projects often fail for familiar reasons: misaligned goals, poor data foundations, weak adoption, and lack of upskilling. The deeper cause is organisational design. If decision-making is centralised, information is gated, and people feel unsafe experimenting, AI can’t scale beyond pilots. Another failure mode is trust: if people fear replacement or don’t understand limitations — hallucinations, bias, brittleness — they either resist or over-rely. HumanCorps reframes AI as a human system change. You need clear purpose, decision rights, minimal structure, and learning loops. Then build agents into workflows people already use, starting small in low-risk domains and scaling as capability and trust grow.

 

8. What are the three or four primary operating beliefs of senior management that are wrong and harmful when it comes to AI?  Four beliefs do the most damage.

·         “AI is a tool we can bolt on”. Leaders fund platforms and pilots but don’t redesign decision rights, information flow, or incentives — so AI mostly accelerates existing bottlenecks.

·         “Control equals safety”. In BANI conditions, the reflex to add approvals, policies, and central review increases brittleness and slows learning.

·         “Authority belongs at the top”. This traps decisions with HiPPO (Highest-Paid Person in the Office) dynamics, filters reality through layers, and disconnects decision-makers from the work.

·         “Speed/efficiency is the point”. AI’s bigger prize is better decision quality, risk control, and collective learning — not just faster output.

 

9. You say that we need a different structure of organisation, with distinctly different approaches toward decision rights, role definitions, and communication. What are some of the approaches that human-centred organisations are taking now?

We’re seeing organisations move toward flatter, networked systems built for adaptation rather than control. Common approaches include:

 

·         Flattening and reorienting hierarchy into interconnected teams that can reconfigure quickly.

·         Dynamic role definitions: roles evolve with the work; people move across projects based on skills and interest.

·         Decision autonomy with “risk envelopes”: teams choose how decision rights work day-to-day, but do the upfront work to define boundaries, escalation triggers, and accountability.

·         Transparency as a cultural norm: faster knowledge flow across silos, enabled by platforms but sustained by leadership modelling and routines for dialogue.

·         Continuous feedback/iteration: frequent reflection sessions (e.g., premortems, future retros) to improve decision quality and adapt.

 

10. You both have decades of experience advising boards, executive teams, and senior leaders in moments of high pressure: growth, crisis, regulatory change, cultural breakdown, and strategic reinvention. Why is the integration of AI and technologies into the workplace such a disruption that causes panic, confusion, and missteps—or worse, inertia? AI is disruptive because it hits technology, psychology, and power structures at the same time. Technically, AI changes workflows and introduces unfamiliar failure modes. Socially, it raises fears about replacement and fairness, which erodes trust, especially when AI begins influencing autonomous decisions. Organisationally, AI exposes the “data paradox”: we generate oceans of information but still funnel authority through narrow channels, producing paralysis, endless alignment meetings, and slow decisions. Under stress, leaders often reach for more control, which makes systems more brittle and increases learned helplessness. HumanCorps argues this is not mainly a technology problem — it’s a mindset and operating-model problem.

 

11. You say we have entered The Wisdom Age. How do you define that?

The Wisdom Age is the shift from competing on information and knowledge to competing on judgement — how wisely you frame problems, interpret signals, apply values, and act. In the Knowledge Age, advantage came from access to information and the ability to turn it into knowledge. Now AI makes information abundant and cheap, and can generate options endlessly. What differentiates organisations is practical wisdom: turning machine‑generated possibilities into context‑aware, ethical decisions that create real value. HumanCorps describes wisdom generation as an organisational capability — built through reflection, sharing tacit knowledge, collective sensemaking, and shared values — augmented by synthetic systems that help humans deal with complexity at scale.

 

12. You developed a HumanCorps Synth, to go along with the book. What is that and how does it work? The Synth is a vision for a deeper human–synthetic relationship than a chatbot: a “digital twin” companion that helps individuals and teams navigate complexity by integrating context, goals, data, and collaboration patterns. In the book, the Synth is also a narrative device that demonstrates how synthetic agents might support wisdom generation — helping with insight synthesis, scenario testing, learning facilitation, sensemaking rituals, and purpose alignment. Importantly, it’s not about replacing accountability. A well‑designed Synth augments human judgement: it curates signals, surfaces anomalies, runs “what‑if/why‑not” reasoning, and supports reflection. For it to work, organisations need data transparency, trust, and training so people engage critically rather than outsourcing thinking.

 

For more information, please see: https://humancorps.ai/

 

Marketing Help?

Brian Feinblum can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com  He is available to help authors like you to promote your story, sell your book, and grow your brand. He has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator! 

 

About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 8,200,000 page views. With nearly 5,700+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

You can connect with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum/ or https://www.facebook.com/brian.feinblum

 

 

How Many People Do You Influence?

 

Authors are seeking cost-efficient shortcuts to getting book sales, and one of their go-to ideas is to get an influencer to discuss their book. The only problem there is that you often have to pay such a person, should he or she agree to work with you. The other challenge is selecting the right influencer and finding a way to reach them.  

How do you know: 

* If their connection numbers are legit? Maybe these numbers were purchased or are fake.

Even if their numbers are legit, how current and active are they? People who followed them two years ago may not really follow anymore but they never disengaged from the connection. 

* If such numbers will yield enough sales of your book to justify their fee? One can have a lot of followers but how many will buy your book?   

* If they are a good brand match for you? Are their followers similar to the demographics of your readers?  

* What you want them to do for you? Determine how to best utilize the influencer. Will they share something that you created? Will they post multiple times on multiple platforms?  

Maybe what you need to do is build your own brand up and look to see how many people you can influence. Perhaps you are really capable of being the influencer that you hope to find and whom you feel will rescue you.  

Feed a hungry man a fish for the day, and you satiate his empty belly once. Teach him how to fish once, and he can feed himself forever. That is a paraphrase of a famous quote, but you get the sentiment. It is applicable to book marketing.  

If you invest in an influencer, it is a one-time event, but if you become the influencer, you can be in charge of your destiny. Before you look to someone else to make you a known entity, try to become one yourself.  

How?  

Do what these influencers did or do — create content that evokes a reaction. Say crazy stuff, do funny things, and be interesting. So many influencers got lucky because one of their posts or videos went viral. Then they feed of that and seek to appear to be an authority or expert, but really, they are just people who got lucky.  

Yes, some patterns emerge. The young and good-looking rule the Net. Being in beautiful places helps too. But at some point, you need good content that gives people a reason to pay attention and to keep returning. Are you motivational? Funny? Smart? What can you offer others by way of advice, entertainment, information, or inspiration?  

It is not easy, otherwise every writer would do it, but it is also not impossible and many more than you think can become influential. It requires nothing more than initiative, a smart phone, and an idea. You don’t have to buy anything, go anywhere, or hire anyone. No permission is needed and there are no requirements attached to this.   

Write, film, orate, photograph, or draw your way to fame. It is a blank canvas. How will you color it in? 

No boundaries. No limits. Only those that you put upon yourself.  You can start right now. 

You should.

 

“The relationships we have with these books can be complicated. For one thing, we don't read them out of choice. They are imposed upon us by a range of forces beyond our control, by the decisions that teachers and exam boards make on our behalf. They might not be books we'd have chosen to read independently; they might not even be books we like. We can't just curl up with these books and enjoy them: we have to answer questions on them, make notes and write essays, revise them for exams. They make other demands of us, as well. We encounter them at a crucial stage in our development, when our identities are being formed and the world is starting to seem more complex and various than it did before. They can spark arguments and frustration.

 

“They might be loathed from the bottom of our hearts, thrown in exasperation across our teenage bedrooms, but they might equally, at times, hold our hands and help us to feel less alone. On occasion, they might lead us to look at life in a completely different way.”

— Reading Lessons: The Books We Read at School, the Conversations They Spark and Why They Matter by Carol Atherton

Marketing Help?

Brian Feinblum can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com  He is available to help authors like you to promote your story, sell your book, and grow your brand. He has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator! 

 

About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 8,200,000 page views. With nearly 5,700+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

You can connect with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum/ or https://www.facebook.com/brian.feinblum

 

 

 

Interview With Travel Book Author Barry Hoffner

 

Readers' Choice Book Awards Bronze Winner, Adult Nonfiction
BookFest 2026 First-Place Award Winner, Self-Discovery & Travel Journals
2026 Nonfiction Book Awards Silver Winner
2026 Finalist for Author of the Year, International Impact Book Awards
2026 Indie Reader Discovery Award Winner, Best Travel Book
2026 Gold Winner, Independent Publisher Book Awards, Travel—Essay
2026 Winner, International Book Awards, Autobiography/Memoir

1. What inspired you to write this book?

I was inspired by a devastating loss. My wife, Jackie, died in a tragic accident in Africa in 2017, just as we were entering a new stage of life together. After months of intense grief and loneliness, I began traveling again. At first, travel was a way to escape a home filled with memories, but gradually it became a form of healing.

The turning point came during my trip to Afghanistan, a year after the Taliban takeover. Instead of fear, I felt curiosity and an unexpected connection with the people I met. I realized I wasn’t simply searching for countries, I was searching for human stories. That was when I knew I needed to write this book.

2. What exactly is it about and who is it written for?

Belonging to the World is a memoir about my quest to travel to every country on Earth and the emotional journey that accompanied it, from grief and disconnection to renewed purpose and belonging.

But it isn’t simply a travel book or a checklist of countries. It is about the people I met, especially in places such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Sudan, countries most of us know primarily through headlines about war and danger. Those encounters challenged my assumptions and expanded my understanding of humanity.

The book is for travelers, certainly, but also for anyone facing loss, transition, loneliness, or the need to begin again. You don’t have to travel to every country, or even very far, to recognize yourself in that search.

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book?

I hope readers come away believing that renewed purpose is possible after loss. Grief may permanently change us, but it does not have to be the end of our story.

I also hope the book encourages readers to look beyond headlines and approach unfamiliar people and places with curiosity rather than fear. There is real danger and suffering in the world, but there is also profound beauty in listening to people, respecting their dignity, and trying to understand lives different from our own.

Most of all, I hope readers feel inspired to take their own first step, whether that means traveling, reconnecting with others, or simply becoming more open to the world. The world can change us if we let it.

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design?

The title came from the central realization of my journey. After losing Jackie, I felt disconnected from the life and future I had known. Through travel, and especially through the connections I formed with people around the globe, I gradually developed a sense of belonging to something much larger than myself. I came to feel that I belonged not only to one home or community, but to the world.

The cover reflects that emotional journey. The open landscape, distant horizon, and warm light suggest both travel and renewal. It captures the idea of emerging from darkness, looking outward, and discovering that another beginning may still be waiting.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers other than run!?

Don’t wait until you know exactly what the story means before you begin writing it. Sometimes writing is how you discover the meaning.

Be honest, especially when the truth is uncomfortable, but remember that a memoir should offer the reader more than a record of what happened to you. Ask what your experience might illuminate for someone else.

I would also say: stay curious. Listen carefully to other people, question your own assumptions, and be willing to revise—not only your sentences, but your understanding of the story. And accept that writing something meaningful requires vulnerability, persistence, and a great deal of patience.

6. What trends in the book world do you see and where do you think publishing is heading?

Readers now discover and experience books in many different ways, through print, e-books, audiobooks, podcasts, interviews, and online communities. Audiobooks are an especially significant area of growth.

At the same time, I believe readers still want something timeless: authentic stories that help them understand lives beyond their own. As our world becomes more divided and much of our information is reduced to alarming headlines or brief social-media posts, books offer the space to slow down, listen, and develop empathy.

Publishing formats will continue to evolve, but our need for compelling human stories will remain.

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book?

Nearly every part of my life contributed to it. I grew up in a traditional Iraqi-Jewish family in Southern California, and my mother was born in Baghdad, so the Middle East always held a particular pull for me. My first backpacking trip to Europe at 18 awakened a curiosity about the wider world that never left me.

My career at J.P. Morgan took me around the globe and helped develop my adaptability, resilience, and comfort in unfamiliar environments. My humanitarian work through Caravan to Class also taught me the importance of listening to people and understanding their lives on their own terms.

Most importantly, loving and losing Jackie gave the book its emotional foundation. The Bourse Jackie scholarship program, which supports women in West Africa, also connects the book’s story to her legacy.

8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar to?

I would describe my style as reflective, candid, and people-centered. The book combines travel narrative with memoir, history, culture, and personal reflection. I try to bring readers into the immediacy of a place while also exploring what each encounter taught me about grief, connection, and our shared humanity.

Rather than presenting myself as a heroic adventurer, I try to remain curious and honest about my assumptions, including the occasions when the people I met forced me to reconsider them. The book belongs to the tradition of reflective travel memoirs in which the external journey becomes an internal one. Ultimately, though, I hope the voice feels distinctly my own.

9. What challenges did you overcome in writing this book?

The greatest challenge was returning to the most painful period of my life. Writing about Jackie meant revisiting the phone call that changed everything, the shock that followed, and the loneliness of trying to imagine a future without her.

There was also the challenge of shaping an enormous journey, 72 new countries, more than 600,000 miles, and hundreds of encounters, into a coherent story. I had to look beyond the statistics and decide what the journey was actually about.

Finally, I wanted to avoid turning the people I met into background characters in my adventure. Their stories deserved care, dignity, and context. The challenge was to tell my own story while honoring theirs.

10. If people can buy or read one book this week or month, why should it be yours?

I would never claim that one book is right for everyone, but I believe Belonging to the World offers something urgently needed: a hopeful, firsthand view of our shared humanity.

It takes readers beyond the headlines and into encounters with people whose warmth, dignity, humor, and generosity are often missing from the stories told about their countries. It is also an honest account of grief and the possibility of finding renewed purpose at any stage of life.

And the book has an impact beyond its pages: 100 percent of the proceeds support scholarships for women in West Africa through the Bourse Jackie program, created in my wife’s name. So reading it becomes part of a continuing story of connection and opportunity.

About The Author: After a 15-year career in investment banking that took him around the world, Barry transitioned into a second career farming grapes and olives. His Silverwood Ranch olive oil has earned multiple gold medals, and his wine grapes have been bottled into Francis Ford Coppola’s Archimedes wine. Today, Barry is the founder of Caravan to Class, a nonprofit he launched in 2010 to advance girls’ education in West Africa through the Bourse Jackie program, named in honor of his late wife. His book, Belonging to the World (Girl Friday Books), chronicles his journey to every country in the world following Jackie’s tragic passing in Africa in late 2017. Barry is passionate about the world and has visited 192 of 193 countries, earning distinction of Most Purposeful Traveler 2025 (NomadMania Annual Traveler Awards). For more information, please see  www.belongingtotheworld.com or www.caravantoclass.org

 

Marketing Help?

Brian Feinblum can be reached at brianfeinblum@gmail.com  He is available to help authors like you to promote your story, sell your book, and grow your brand. He has over 30 years of experience in successfully helping thousands of authors in all genres. Let him be your advocate, teacher, and motivator! 

 

About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 8,200,000 page views. With nearly 5,700+ posts over the past 15 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2026, 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully) and (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/10-things-my-dog-taught-me-about-marketing-books). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, three times at BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association, Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, five times at Morgan James Publishing Red Carpet, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

You can connect with him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum/ or https://www.facebook.com/brian.feinblum