TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Flat Out Delicious by Jenn Sharp and Bisous & Brioche by Laura Bradbury and Rebecca Wellman have been selected as finalists for the 2021 Taste Canada Awards. The announcement was made virtually on June 16 and the winners will be selected in a virtual ceremony on November 14, … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Always Brave, Sometimes Kind by Katie Bickell is the winner of the 2021 Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction at the Alberta Literary Awards. The winners were announced in an online video release on June 9th. Always Brave, Sometimes Kind is Bickell’s debut novel told in connected stories that … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that A Match Made for Murder by Iona Whishaw is the winner of the 2021 Bony Blithe/Bloody Words Light Mystery Award. The announcement was made May 28. A Match Made for Murder is the seventh book in Iona Whishaw’s Lane Winslow Mystery series and is among four other titles … Continued
Lane Winslow is back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon and offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December… Join Iona Whishaw as she embarks on a national tour from her living room to celebrate the publication … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Katie Bickell’s Always Brave, Sometimes Kind has been shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Awards in the Novel category. The announcement was made on April 19 on the award’s Instagram page and the winners will be announced on April 23. The ReLit Award is a Canadian literary prize awarded … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans by Jenn Sharp has been shortlisted in four award categories for the 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards. The announcement was made on April 15 and the winners will be decided in an online ceremony on June 17. Flat Out … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats by Robert Amos and Orphans of Empire by Grant Buday have been shortlisted for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The shortlist announcement was made April 8 and the winners will be announced at their awards gala on September 18. … Continued
As we bid adieu to 2020, we are sending our warmest wishes to you and yours for a cozy holiday season. And from our kitchen to yours, we’re pleased to share this festive recipe for Poire Belle-Hélène from Bisous and Brioche by Laura Bradbury and Rebecca Wellman. Image of Poire Belle-Hélène by Rebecca Wellman from Bisous … Continued
TouchWood Editions is thrilled to announce that Cedar and Salt, the award-winning cookbook by DL Acken and Emily Lycopolus, has been shortlisted for the 2021 Pacific Northwest Book Awards. The announcement was made November 10, 2020. Featuring more than 100 recipes that showcase the best of Vancouver Island’s homegrown and locally produced ingredients, Cedar and … Continued
TouchWood Editions is thrilled to announce that Cedar and Salt by DL Acken and Emily Lycopolus is the joint First Prize winner of a 2019 Alcuin Society Award for Excellence in Book Design. TouchWood designer Tree Abraham is the recipient of the award. The announcement was made October 7, 2020. Featuring more than 100 recipes … Continued
TouchWood Editions is thrilled to announce that both Show Me the Honey by Dave Doroghy and Tapping the West by Scott Messenger have won Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the Canadian competition. Show Me the Honey: Adventures of an Accidental Apiarist by Dave Doroghy, the winner of the Best Book on Honey in Canada, is … Continued
“Staycation” and “domestic tourism” are the buzz words of the summer. Luckily for Canadians, we live in one of the most uniquely beautiful and geographically diverse countries in the world. Each of our gorgeous provinces offers a variety of socially distant activities for you and you family to discover and explore safely (especially if approached … Continued