News

  • Touchwood Press loves literacy. Join us in supporting Reading Is Fundamental, dedicated to helping children learn to read by providing free books, eBooks, and online resources.
  • Summer 2025: 50 Fun Facts books for eight major league teams are available in paperback and eBook versions. We did our first audiobook based on 50 Fun Facts ABout the New York Yankees. More teams are in the works.
  • March 2025: A supplement to our 50 Fun Facts Baseball Series, Tokyo Series 2025 is the story behind the MLB Opening Day games between the Cubs and Dodgers in Japan.
  • Students of our Publish It Yourself! Workshops have published new books:
    • Empowered Thinking, Empowered Life by Michelle Caprio is an inspiring guide filled with 365 daily affirmations that lift spirits and lead to spiritual growth.
    • A three-book series has been published by a recent Publish It Yourself! student writing as M. Jayne LaDow. Her Marchfield Middle rom-coms are hilariously inspired by her 30 years in education.
  • LaCost: The Evolution of Jason — Dan Brown meets science-fiction in a two-book series from author Patrick Rizio, an alum of our Publish It Yourself! Workshop.
  • The 50 Fun Facts Baseball series tells the stories of beloved professional baseball teams for fans old and new, young and seasoned. It’s fun to learn more about the team you love, but it’s surprisingly entertaining to learn more about those “other” teams and get a broader appreciation of baseball as a cultural phenomenon. Batter up!
  • Mountain Vision — We helped mountaineer and humanitarian Jeff B. Evans update and re-publish his autobiography. A new version is in development.
  • The Divine Storyteller — Fan fiction from a first-time author about the life and exploits of popular novelist Nevil Shute. Expanded version in editing.
  • Canal Chronicles — Regional history that takes you back to the dawn of America’s first transportation revolution. Here are the history and legends surrounding the construction of the Illinois & Michigan Canal that connected Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and extended shipping and commerce to serve a growing country. First in a series.
  • The Publish It Yourself Workshop has provided critical information to new authors as they get ready, get set, and go toward publishing their first books.
  • Our Book Club Journals by Barbara Clark McCandless offer an easy way to stay on top of your book-club reads and overcome the problem of not being able to remember what you read a few meetings ago!