Interview with Author Gregory Wilson Taylor

 

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1. What inspired you to write this book?  My investigative current affairs documentary and print work on the on the 1982 Ocean Ranger oil rig disaster, published as a Special Feature in Reader’s Digest won me a National Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism. This included meeting many family members who lost loved ones, as well as others who had worked on the rig. I also followed the two government-led inquiries into the disaster. That research formed the basis for the background of this novel.

2. What exactly is it about and who is it written for? RIGGED is the story of a bitter eco-warrior, Ty O’Connor, who wants to punish PetroStar, the offshore oil rig’s owner, for their part in a massacre that he witnessed in West Africa. Working with someone who he thinks has the same goal – to shut the rig down and expose its greedy owners – he discovers too late that he has been tricked into bringing explosives aboard the rig and that his family is being held hostage. Further complicating his plan, his estranged father is in charge of the rig. Secret family ties soon overwhelm Ty’s efforts to save the lives of everyone on board as the rig is crippled in the midst of a deadly winter storm.

3. What do you hope readers will get out of reading your book? No matter how devious and powerful the enemy, a dedicated everyman can save the day.

4. How did you decide on your book’s title and cover design? I’ve always loved the word “rigged” for its dual images of an oil rig and how one’s enemies can “rig” the fight against you.

5. What advice or words of wisdom do you have for fellow writers – other than run!? Find an honest and well-published writing group to critique your work, as well as good, independent editors.

6. What trends in the book world do you see -- and where do you think the book publishing
industry is heading? As valuable as literary agents have become, the explosion of unknown and indie authors has so overwhelmed the market that breaking out of the crowd and finding eyes to see your book seems virtually a near-impossible long shot.

7. Were there experiences in your personal life or career that came in handy when writing this book? I have been telling stories all of my life – first as an actor in England and Canada, and later, as a documentary and print journalist. On the business side, I have helped more than 50 mining and resource companies reach investor audiences by telling their stories in compelling and truthful ways.

 
8. How would you describe your writing style? Which writers or books is your writing similar
to? My style is influenced by my journalism background, and I try to write in clear, unembellished language, using descriptions and dialogue that reflect the real world and real people. My strongest authorial influences are Karen Slaughter, Linwood Barclay and Harlan Coben.

 

My first three books are sharply different. One is a thriller about a mother’s love for her autistic son. (EDGE OF THE FALL: The storm is the least of her worries.) I have a family member who is on the spectrum, and I have worked with emotionally disturbed children.

 

THE REDEMPTION: She lost her badge. She won’t lose another child. This is essentially a police-procedural about a former detective wrongly driven from the force by a crooked cop. Working as a security guard at a county zoo, Cass Woodward sees evidence of a child kidnapping, which the father first said had terrified him before he denied anything was wrong. Cass follows the clues and finds another kidnapped child and ties them to unspeakably evil perpetrators. (I am in the early stages of working on the sequel to this story.)

 

9. What challenges did you overcome in the writing of this book? Enabling my protagonist to overcome his antagonism toward his estranged father, while not turning his distrust for “big oil” into a shallow environmentalist rant.  

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

RIGGED is as much a fact-based thriller as it is an exciting story about family, honesty and being true to one’s values no matter the cost.

 

About The Author: Gregory Wilson Taylor’s professional career includes more than two decades as a current affairs documentary producer-director for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and as a widely published print journalist before becoming a business writer and consultant focused on the international resource industry. His investigative work on the on the 1982 Ocean Ranger oil rig disaster, published as a Special Feature in Reader’s Digest won him a National Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism. That research formed the basis for the background of this novel.   Please see: Gregory Wilson Taylor – Author Website

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About Brian Feinblum

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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 Historical Thriller Author Jeff Tanner

 

1. What inspired you to write this book?

A trip to the Mariners Museum in Newport News, Virginia. The CEO shared that the museum’s founders were two shipbuilders who wanted to keep their workers busy during the Depression so they built the museum, then hired two guys to acquire things for the museum. None of them – not the founders or the acquisition agents – knew anything about museums and what to buy. I thought, “Wouldn’t that make for a fun series, something like an Indiana Jones buying nautical stuff around the world.” The main character, though, doesn’t actually go to work for the museum until book three.

 

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

The King’s Collar begins with Charlie Bohannon, a Harvard senior getting thrown out of school and disowned by his tyrannical father. He meets a former British sailor selling smuggled trinkets and adventures ensue, the most important one centering on finding an Egyptian artifact, the King’s Collar. Readers say it’s part Maltese Falcon, part The Sting, and part Indiana Jones so I hit that mark. I’ve had some readers say it’s adventure that rivals Dungeon Crawler Carl, which is a series I love but is so different. Still, I’d love to have that level of success!

 

What’s surprised me is that readers range in age from 35 up, and both women and men. I was expecting an older mix leaning heavily female. Some come to it as historical fiction, for it’s set in 1929 Boston. Others want the mystery, and still others like the fast-paced adventure. If you like the movies of the 30s and 40s, you’ll love The King’s Collar and the Boston Bones series.

 

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

While the Boston Bones series is meant to be entertaining, Bones is a young man who is still defining himself. Readers tend to speed through the books, anxious to see what happens to Charlie and his friends. But these are stories that are deeper, so those who reflect on the things that happen have told me they read the stories again soon after. There is a noirish overtone throughout, for there are powerful and wealthy actors behaving selfishly and they seem to be immune to any negative consequences. But I hope in these times that readers take away a sense of hope that, even as a less powerful individual, they can still effect change.

 

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

The King’s Collar was the working title from day one. I tried others but didn’t care for them. Dolls, book two, also never had another title. The title was slang in that period for a girlfriend or a good-looking girl. Bones is tasked with finding two missing daughters, one the daughter of a mobster and the other his wealthy mentor, so there’s that. And someone is using Russian nesting dolls to smuggle goods through Bones’ store. But it’s also a story of Bones questioning his beliefs about and society’s restrictions on women. Dolls, as with The King’s Collar, is what Bones is searching for, though the meaning to him changes over the course of the novel.

 

My publisher, Koehler, has a design team and I was fortunate to be paired with Lauren Sheldon. She and I met to discuss how I saw the cover for The King’s Collar and she came up with five designs. Together, we narrowed them to two, then ran a poll. When it came time for Dolls, we had two options: stick with the same background color and change the graphics or font significantly or change the color and leave the font and overall design similar. We wanted something that would create the look and feel of The King’s Collar but clearly be a different book in the same series. In the end, we went with the green and yellow but with a similar layout. Given that there are five books completed so far and another in the works, I’m not sure what we will do next!

 

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

Commit. And if you can’t commit, run! I’ve written all of my life, but professionally, my first commitment had to be to writing nonfiction. When I decided to write novels, I committed to learning craft first because fiction is different and I knew my writing wasn’t up to standard. I listened to podcasts, attended workshops and conferences, joined critique groups, and so on, so I could hone my craft. I still work on my craft, because it’s not perfect.

 

When I coached baseball, I’d tell the players to make their own mistakes, not repeat someone else’s. In other words, learn from watching/reading. And I told them I’d never be mad at them for making a hustle mistake – trying to do the extraordinary and failing. But I hate making the same mistake twice, so I view every critique as an opportunity to get better, not simply about that piece of work. In other words, never hit “accept all changes.” Work to understand the reason behind them first.

 

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

I heard a stat that 800 new books are published daily. That number will only grow, and so will formats because of technology.

 

Selling to writers is a big industry that will only get bigger as technology makes it easier to craft stories and bring them to market, which is why those who facilitate publishing need to replace lost income. We’re already seeing more agents doing more teaching or consulting than agenting.

 

AI is, of course, the bull in our China shop. Some of it is quite good and that scares me.

 

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

My father, to whom The King’s Collar is dedicated, was a tech writer and editor for a NASA contractor from Mercury through Apollo. Everything had to be exact and correct. He was my first and toughest editor. I spent a lot of time in Boston, a town I really enjoy, and that knowledge helped. Certain scenes, such as when Bones’ father throws him out, were based on people or events that either I or a loved one experienced. Obviously, that was not my father.

 

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

 My style is, I think, similar to that of Dick Francis, James Herriott, Iona Wishaw, and Jacqueline Winspear, in that I tend to be optimistic, my stories are generally clean, and my characters are human and ever-changing. I naturally write very sparse stories in the way that Raymond Chandler or Dashiel Hammett sometimes did, but I’ve had to learn to go back and add physical descriptions – to strike the right balance because I’m writing period pieces and I have to take the reader into the room, so to speak.

 

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

The biggest challenge for me was finding my voice, which is a writer-ly way say that I had to learn how to write fiction in a way that is authentic, yet fun to read. Getting dialog right was a huge challenge because slang is so different from one place to another and from one era to another, and from one class to another. Words that were neutral then might be pejorative now. And some make no sense at all today, like a blind pig, which is a type of gin joint where you pay to see a blind pig and get a free drink because giving booze away wasn’t prohibited. Readers seem to think I did a good job of using slang in an accurate fashion, which I’m grateful for.

 

But when you write historical fiction, you have to get your facts right. The challenge is that you don’t know what you don’t know, so you don’t research everything. I knew, for example, that Teddy Roosevelt boxed in college at another Ivy League school. I didn’t know that boxing was an intramural sport until 1930 or ‘31, so I unwittingly crowned Bones the Ivy League welterweight champion a year or two early. I hope readers will forgive me.

And sources don’t always agree. Mob boss Joey Bonano and film star Gloria Swanson, Joseph Kennedy’s mistress, branded Kennedy as a bootlegger, but not until the 1970s. There is no evidence to support those charges, according to multiple biographers, but Swanson should know, right? So who are you going to believe?

 

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

Because in this world today, we need stories that entertain, inspire, and provide hope, and the Boston Bones stories do just that.

 

About Jeff Tanner: The King's Collar (Boston Bones #1) and Dolls (Boston Bones #2)

Jeff Tanner lives on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay ln Virginia's Eastern Shore. He's published 15 business books and wrote, produced, and hosted a daily business show on NPR for over two years. THE KING’S COLLAR is his debut novel, and he has also had several plays and short stories performed or published. DOLLS, the second book in the Boston Bones series, will publish December 8, 2026. He and his wife split time between Dayton, OH, to be near grandkids, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay, sharing both homes with Boo, a four-pound Maltese. To add some excitement, they also own and race thoroughbreds. For more info, see: www.authorjefftanner.com

 

 

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 10, 400,000 page views. With over 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 Novelist Lucas Malone On His Sex Opera

 

 

1. What inspired you to write this book?

It started partly out of frustration. I wanted to read a huge, glossy, adult commercial story about gay men that wasn’t afraid of sex, melodrama, danger, money, family, fame, suspense or terrible decisions. I couldn’t quite find the book I wanted, so in a moment of poor judgment, I decided to write it.

 

I grew up fascinated by enormous popular stories like Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls and Jackie Collins’ Lucky, along with films like Gone with the Wind, Basic Instinct, Showgirls and Any Given Sunday. They weren’t embarrassed by scale. They gave you glamour, sex, ambition, heartbreak and spectacle.

 

I wanted to take some of that DNA and build a modern queer version of it. Eventually I stopped trying to explain exactly what shelf Hard Count belonged on and called it what it was: “a gay football Sex Opera.”

 

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

Hard Count follows Piper Ashton and Noah Reyes, two rival professional quarterbacks whose relationship collides with fame, money, family, sexuality.

 

At the center, it’s a love story. Around that love story is a much larger world of obsession, power, celebrity, manipulation, suspense, dark humor and sex.

 

I wrote it for people who want a ride.

 

That includes romance readers, gay men who may not normally pick up novels, people who love thrillers or erotic fiction, and anyone who misses big commercial stories where characters are allowed to be a mess.

 

You don’t need to know football. You just need to enjoy watching beautiful people make their lives incredibly difficult for themselves.

 

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

First, I hope they’re entertained.

 

I’m not trying to assign homework. I want readers to laugh, get nervous, get turned on, get angry, care about these people and occasionally wonder what the hell I was thinking.

 

But underneath all the spectacle, Hard Count is also about freedom. It’s about the cages people build around themselves because of family, ambition, reputation, money, masculinity or fear, and what happens when somebody finally decides they would rather blow up the cage or once they start to realize their there is life after the cage.

 

If readers finish the book having had an absurd amount of fun and then realize it left a bruise somewhere, I’ve done my job. 

 

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

Hard Count is a football term, and it plays a pivotal role in the novel, but I’m not above a double entendre. I write Sex Operas. I was never going to call this thing Love on The Field.

 

The cover was much more deliberate. I didn’t want the traditional visual shorthand of a romance novel. I wanted to bring back that classic 1970’s style. No couple staring meaningfully into the middle distance. I wanted something darker, cleaner and more cinematic that could signal football, power, sexuality and danger without explaining the entire book before someone opened it. The designer I worked with, Erin Craig, has done iconic covers like Virgin River and Heated Rivalry. She made the process seamless and a lot of fun.

 

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

Respect the reader. 

 

You are asking for a lot from them. 8-10 hours of reading time is huge commitment, and I believe you owe it to the reader to put your all in. 

 

Also, learn how to separate useful criticism from someone merely wishing you had written a different book. Those are not the same thing. Listen carefully when people identify a problem. Be much more suspicious when they prescribe the solution. And protect whatever makes your work strange and you. There is so much sameness in the romance genre and I believe the reckoning is coming.

 

You can improve structure, pacing, clarity and craft without sanding off the thing that made you want to write it in the first place. I think writers sometimes become so focused on fitting into the marketplace that they accidentally edit out their soul.

 

Write like nobody is watching. There will be plenty of people watching later. Whether you take their notes is on you. Nothing special happens when you flinch.

 

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

Books are increasingly being sold through shorthand: tropes, micro-genres, aesthetics, algorithms and highly specific reader promises. Some of that is useful. Readers want signals.

 

I just don’t think they need the entire emotional itinerary before page one. My job is still to surprise you.

 

I also think the line between traditional publishing, independent publishing and creator-led entertainment will continue to blur. Writers have more ability than ever to build their own audience, control their work and create an identity outside the traditional gatekeeping system. The downside is that everyone has also been handed a megaphone, so discoverability has become its own form of blood sport.

 

My hope is that we eventually swing back toward books feeling like events. Fewer disposable pieces of content and more stories with enough personality that somebody tells a friend, “You have to read this insane thing.”

 

That’s much more interesting to me than trying to manufacture Book Number 47 for an algorithm. I write incredibly slow. Taking an hour to write a paragraph is worth it if I am respecting the reader and giving them a good time.

 

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

Absolutely, although I’m much more interested in stealing emotions from my life than events.

 

My professional career is in consumer marketing, so I naturally think about audience, positioning and why people choose one thing over another. That became extremely useful once I had to publish and market the book. Unfortunately, writing the actual novel stubbornly refused to behave like a PowerPoint presentation.

 

On the personal side, I understood many of the book’s emotional themes very well: ambition, control, family expectations, identity, reinvention and the desire for freedom.

 

The circumstances are fictional. The emotional weather is not.

 

That was probably the most important thing I brought to it. The emotions are somewhat autobiographical, the world is a work of fiction.

 

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

Fast, cinematic, emotionally sincere and slightly unhinged. I block a scene before I write it in my head almost like a screen play. My first love is movies, so I write the movie I am seeing in my head. Having a giant, sprawling football sex opera running through my head at all hours is exhausting at times, but it’s all worth it. My therapist is thankful for the extra hours.

 

I like short chapters, strong momentum, big characters, dark humor and very high emotional stakes. I’m interested in what happens when you take material that could easily become camp and treat the characters’ feelings completely seriously.

 

The literary ancestors are people like Jacqueline Susann, Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper: writers who understood that commercial fiction could contain sex, ambition, glamour, cruelty, humor and enormous emotional stakes without apologizing for any of it.

 

I wouldn’t compare myself to those writers in accomplishment. I’m talking about DNA, not altitude.

 

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

The largest challenge was that I had never written a novel before.

 

I didn’t come through an MFA program or spend my life planning to become a novelist. I have an MBA and spent more than two decades in consumer marketing. Suddenly I was teaching myself structure, pacing, character development, dialogue and approximately nine thousand other things novelists apparently knew I was supposed to know.

 

The book also went through substantial revision. I cut tens of thousands of words, rebuilt sections and learned the unpleasant but necessary skill of killing my darlings. Occasionally I later discovered I had murdered the wrong darling and quietly dug it back up.

 

The other challenge was accepting what the book actually was.

 

For a while, I kept trying to make Hard Count fit comfortably inside an existing MM romance category. Eventually I realized the uncomfortable parts were the interesting parts. That’s where the idea of the Sex Opera really came from.

 

I stopped trying to get invited into the village and became the witch in the forest outside it.

 

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

Because you probably already own several perfectly respectable books.

 

Try the weird, messy sex opera.

 

Hard Count has rival quarterbacks, sex, glamour, family warfare, villains, suspense, dark humor, obscene amounts of money and a love story at the center that I actually care about.

 

It is not trying to act like everyone else. It is just trying to entertain you.

 

My argument is simple:

 

Come for the sex and spectacle. Stay for the humans.

 

About The Author: Lucas Malone is a novelist, who writes commercial fiction. His debut novel, Hard Count: Book One of The Piper Ashton Saga, introduced the gay football Sex Opera, his modern reinvention of the classic bonkbuster. Inspired by the unapologetic storytelling of Jacqueline Susann and Jackie Collins, and the glorious excess of films like Showgirls and Any Given Sunday, Malone creates larger-than-life stories where sex, suspense, glamour, power, dark humor, and human vulnerability collide. His ambition is to make books feel like entertainment events again, with gay characters occupying the center of the spectacle rather than its margins. His debut received a Kirkus Reviews “Get It” recommendation, a 9.5/10 BookLife Prize Critic’s Report, and was named a 2026 NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite in LGBTQ Fiction. The second installment, The Tight End, is planned for March 26, 2027. Having abandoned the pursuit of conventional genre labels, Malone has embraced his identity as the witch in the forest outside the romance village. Please visit: https://lucasmalone.com/

 

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 10, 400,000 page views. With over 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