You and Your Money: Mastering the Emotions Behind the Numbers

Alvin Hall has been training and counseling a wide range of financial service companies and institutions in the United States and around the world for the last twenty years. He lives in New York City.

Karl Weber, publisher of Rivertowns Books, is a writer, editor, and book developer with over forty years' experience in the book publishing industry. He is an expert in general-interest nonfiction publishing, specializing in topics from business and personal finance to politics, current affairs, history, autobiography, self-help, and personal development. Weber has advised and assisted authors in a wide range of nonfiction areas, including, for example, former president Jimmy Carter, author of several New York Times bestsellers, including An Hour Before Daylight (2000), which Weber edited; Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, with whom Weber co-authored the New York Times bestseller Creating a World Without Poverty (2008) and its sequels, Building Social Business (2010) and A World of Three Zeros (2017); and the late Ash Carter, secretary of defense under Barack Obama, whose book Inside the Five-Sided Box (2019) Weber edited. Before founding Rivertowns Books, Weber served as managing director of the Times Business imprint at Random House (1994-1997) and as senior editor and publisher in the trade book division of John Wiley & Sons (1986-1994). Weber is director of the Editing Workshop at the Denver Publishing Institute, a summer program for individuals interested in pursuing or advancing careers in the publishing industry. Weber lives in Irvington, New York, with his wife, Mary-Jo Weber.