Mike McCandless

Mike McCandless is a lifelong reader and writer and the founder and publisher of Touchwood Press. He has worked in and around book publishing since the mid-1970s, first doing research leading to major-publisher mergers and acquisitions. Then, he learned about how books are made and sold as the production coordinator for a large U.S. textbook publisher. Later, while a marketing executive in Silicon Valley tech companies and nonprofits, he founded two successful publishing business units and self-published his first book in 1994. He holds a book publishing certificate from the Stanford Professional Publishing program. Mike developed the Publish-It-Yourself Workshop to help adult learners succeed in self-publishing, and he founded Touchwood Press to coach writers and provide publishing services using traditional and the latest digital print-on-demand tools. Mike is working on an extensive list of nonfiction and fiction books which he plans to finish well before his expiration date.