PAT TOUCHIE has been the publisher of TouchWood Editions (formerly Horsdal & Schubart) since 1998. During that time she has built on the company’s origins as a non-fiction regional publisher and today publishes a range of contemporary lifestyle books, cookbooks, biography, crime fiction, and works closely with her Associate Publisher, Taryn Boyd, who also oversees TouchWood’s literary imprint, Brindle & Glass. Pat is a former business teacher at Capilano College and spent a decade as VP of Marketing with Self-Counsel Press and partner of Self Counsel Inc. in the US. She is a former board member of ABPBC. TouchWood currently publishes about 24 titles per year and the full list can be viewed at touchwoodeditions.com.

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Workshop 2: Speed Dating: Pitch your Book/Idea to Publishers, Agents and Editors