Mary C. McCluskey’s Children’s Book “Bubbles, Balloons & Birds” Will Be Displayed at the Los Angeles Book Confab and the LATFOB 2025

The self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet will exhibit the children’s book by Mary C. McCluskey, titled “Bubbles, Balloons & Birds: Learning to Thrive – Helping Kids Cope with Adversity,” at the 2025 Los Angeles Book Confab, which will take place at the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City on April 23-24, 2025. The book will also get its spotlight at the 2025 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles on April 26-27, 2025.

“Bubbles, Balloons & Birds” teaches young readers how to use their inner resources to help them cope with stress. It follows eight children, along with Dr. J and Dr. A, as they embark on an adventure that will help them grow and learn the importance of connection, creativity, resilience, and friendship.

“Bubbles, Balloons & Birds” is the second book of the Psychological Book Series and has won a Gold-Level Moms’ Choice Award. The first book in the series is called “The Leader of the Parade.”

The self-publishing and book marketing company ReadersMagnet helps independent authors find their niche in the publishing industry. With ReadersMagnet, independent authors can find their audience and create connections with book lovers and marketers. ReadersMagnet advertises self-publishing authors like Mary C. McCluskey in book events that boost exposure and strengthen marketability.

ReadersMagnet will bring together authors and booklovers for the 2025 Los Angeles Book Confab. The Book Confab is an initiative created by the company to allow authors to share their writing and publishing journey, discuss ideas and insights from their works, and even drum up support for their advocacies. The Book Confab allows authors, including authors who are not published with ReadersMagnet, to share the stories behind their stories. The event will be live-streamed on ReadersMagnet’s social media platforms.

After the Los Angeles Book Confab, ReadersMagnet will be heading to the 2025 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. The LATFOB is an annual event attracting a crowd of 150,000. The open-air literary festival celebrates written literature across different platforms: print, audio, TV, film, and digital channels. This book event opens opportunities for authors to reach a broader audience and find a larger connection. ReadersMagnet will be exhibiting at booth #225.

Get a copy of “Bubbles, Balloons & Birds: Learning to Thrive – Helping Kids Cope with Adversity” on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Learn more about Mary C. McCluskey and her work at https://theempowermentopportunity.com/.

Author’s Biography:

Mary C. McCluskey received her BA in creative writing and psychology from Loyola College, her master’s degree in social work from Columbia University, and her doctorate in social work from The University of Pennsylvania. Mary did her post-graduate training at The American Institute for Psychoanalysis (AIP). She specializes in treating trauma and has also been trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR (a specialized trauma treatment modality) by the Parnell Institute. Mary teaches at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and also teaches and supervises at AIP. She is the owner of The Empowerment Opportunity LCSW, PLLC, a group therapy practice in New York City. She is also the owner of Encouragement Ink, LLC.

Her next book, A Mouse Named Pigment in Chopin’s Piano: The Healing Power of Color and Sound, is coming out in the fall of 2025. Mary is also trained in both sound healing and trauma-informed creative art therapy. Bubbles, Balloons, and Birds: Learning to Thrive-Helping Kids Cope with Adversity was also translated into Ukrainian and distributed to families in Poland and Romania by CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort), the global humanitarian relief organization co-founded by Sean Penn and Ann Lee and The Siemacha Association in Krakow, Poland. Mary just returned from an art workshop and book event that she hosted for some of these children in Krakow, Poland. Some of the children’s artwork will appear in A Mouse Named Pigment. She is also the author of “The Leader of the Parade” (the prequel to “Bubbles, Balloons & Birds”). Mary’s mom, Vicki, and teenage daughter, Fi, are also illustrators of these books.

“Bubbles, Balloons & Birds: Learning to Thrive – Helping Kids Cope with Adversity”
Author: Mary C. McCluskey
Genre: Children’s Book
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Published Date: May 11, 2024

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