TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Always Brave, Sometimes Kind by Katie Bickell has been presented with the 2021 Indie Author Project Award for Alberta. The awards were presented online on Saturday, November 13. Always Brave, Sometimes Kind is Bickell’s debut novel told in connected short stories that captures the diverse and complicated networks … Continued
I know this is a book about vegetables, but once a baker, always a baker! And with that, I give you bread! Well, a recipe for bread, using a little bit of mashed potato and the water it was cooked in. Baking bread always makes me feel like I’m a grown-up, like I’ve somehow got … Continued
We are pleased to announce that Flat Out Delicious: Your Definitive Guide to Saskatchewan’s Food Artisans by Jenn Sharp has won the silver medal in the English-language Culinary Narratives category at the 2021 Taste Canada Awards. The awards were presented virtually on Sunday, November 14, which you can view here. Sharp is a champion of … Continued
It brings us great joy to share that Noorbanu Nimji, author of four editions of her cookbook A Spicy Touch, the most recent published by us at TouchWood Editions, has been inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 2021 Taste Canada Awards. The Hall of Fame Award recognizes Canada’s culinary heroes who, through books, … Continued
It is a rare snack food that doubles as a floor polish. The sunflower seed, however, is one such versatile morsel. Though we know that Mennonites began cultivating and snacking on sunflower seeds sometime in the 19th century, we don’t know exactly when our ancestors discovered that spitting the shells onto the wooden floors of … Continued
Everyone loves a good lasagna, and this one is definitely for the mushroom lovers. I love how this pretty pasta bakes up in no time, and don’t get me started on the crispy bits near the edge of the skillet. The mushroom cream sauce has whispers of white wine, garlic, Dijon mustard, and thyme, so … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that The E. J. Hughes Book of Boats by Robert Amos has won the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award at the 37th annual BC and Yukon Book Prizes. The online ceremony was held on Saturday, September 25 and awarded prizes in eight annual categories, with two awards also given … Continued
TouchWood Editions is pleased to announce that Orphans of Empire by Grant Buday has been shortlisted for the 2021 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. The announcement was made on September 10 and the winner will be announced at a free online event, hosted by CBC’s Gregor Craigie, on Sunday, October 3 at 7:00 PM … Continued
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