Culligan Publishing Limited's president Tom Culligan, started his publishing career with his first self-published book, ‘Teacups and Sticky Buns’. It’s really his Mom’s story, telling of her “powerful devotion in raising nine children against the severest storms that life could throw at her. A very Canadian story grounded in the glorious landscape found along the North Shore of New Brunswick's Baie de Chaleur, Canada.” As one reviewer put it in the Evening News, “self-published…usually sends up red flags, but in this case it is well worth the read.”

In addition, all (100%) author and publisher profits of this book go directly to the Margaret Culligan Foundation. A national charitable foundation with the mandate to help feed and educate needy and poor children, the Margaret Culligan Foundation was established by Tom Culligan, in honour of his mother.

  Tom Culligan is co-founder of The Second Cup and was the first to develop a chain of retail stores specializing in gourmet coffee in North America. Tom created and developed the Second Cup concept from a tiny 90-foot kiosk in 1975 to 150 stores across Canada (today there are over 500). In 1984, when they had 48 stores, Tom purchased co-founder Frank O'Dea's shares and then sold the entire chain in 1989 after having opened 150 stores.

Tom holds a degree in Theology and Philosophy from the University of Dayton at Dayton, Ohio. Aside from his interest in private financial and real estate developments, Tom devotes himself full-time to painting and writing. He divides his time between Muskoka, New Brunswick and Florida.

  Future releases from Culligan Publishing are scheduled for the fall of 2004, with the release of the recipe book, ‘Teacups and Sticky Buns, Mom's Recipes.’ It is a “full colour illustrated Maritime storied cookbook, featuring sensational 'down-home' dishes such as; mussels and fish cakes on an open fire, Christmas Eve tortière and fudge filled oatmeal cookies, Kitchen square dancing and chicken bouillon, Winter's micarièn fudge and taffy pulls, teatime anytime, Mom's never fail pastry, donuts taste better with age, serving up lunch for card parties and funerals, pitching-in for an ol' time wedding feast and opening up the root cellar.”

The fall of 2005 will see another release, entitled ‘Teacups and Sticky Buns, Tom's Story;
How to make your dreams come true.’ In this book “Tom shares and tells his experiences of how he developed his idea into a successful concept, creating and developing one of North America's most successful retail concepts, the Second Cup Café chain of stores. And how he continues to utilize these universal principles in painting, writing, publishing and real estate development.”

  Other things to watch for include a PrideVision TV feature on Tom Culligan this fall, and a Cottage Life Television feature on author Tom Culligan's Muskoka cottage, family and teacups. That is scheduled for March 2004.

  For more information, including how to order a copy of ‘Teacups and Sticky Buns’ visit Tom Culligan’s website at www.culliganpublishing.com.