Mark McConville, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in adult, adolescent, emerging adult, and family psychology. A senior faculty member at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, he has lectured, published, and taught widely on the subjects of child development, parenting, and counseling methodology.

BIG-NAME SUPPORT FROM LUMINARIES IN THE FIELD AND EARLY MEDIA PRAISE: Before its hardcover release, Failure to Launch and Mark McConville have received standout praise from influential and bestselling writers, including Julie Lythcott-Haims, Lori Gottlieb, Lisa Damour, and Michele Borba, among others. These great early blurbs have been coupled with strong early buzz, including glowing trade reviews and coverage in People.

HISTORICALLY STRONG BACKLIST CATEGORY: Parents are consistently desperate to raise independent kids, and this topic lends itself nicely to evergreen paperback sales, as we've seen with recent bestsellers in this category like The Gift of Failure (for parents of tweens-over 79k sold life-to-date across all formats) and How to Raise an Adult (for parents of teens and college-aged kids-more than 150k sold life-to-date across all formats).

SERVES A HUGE-AND DESPERATE-AUDIENCE: In fact, studies show that 1 in 4 Americans aged twenty-five to thirty-four are "idle"; that is, they neither work nor attend school. That amounts to about 2.2 million young people who have "failed to launch," and there exists no manual for parenting these twentysomethings.

BY THE EXPERT WHO FIRST IDENTIFIED "FAILURE TO LAUNCH" SYNDROME: Dr. Mark McConville is one of the few clinicians who specializes in "boomerang families," a focus he honed over the past thirty years among the affluent, frustrated clients he works with. His New York Times article on the topic last year received a big response.

SOUGHT-AFTER THOUGHT LEADER ON THIS TOPIC: With senior faculty status at one of the world's most renowned post graduate psychotherapy training institutes, the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, McConville is the right voice to take this message to a national audience. His reputation as a leader in this field yields regular invitations to speak and teach internationally.