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Buried Treasure: The Adventures of Max and Maddie, was recently showcased on Reading Recommendations Blog, created by Susan M. Toy, author, publisher, and overall champion to writers of all genres.

So, I decided to do a little promoting for Susan! Here's a little about Susan and her "many hats."

About Susan Toy:

I  have been a bookseller, an award-winning publishing sales representative, a literacy teacher, and a promoter of fellow authors and their books through my company, Alberta Books Canada. I am also an author and publisher, under my imprint, IslandCatEditions.

Through Alberta Books Canada, I have represented authors directly, helping them find promotion for themselves and their books, seeking out new readers, and assisting them in making wise career decisions. I champion Alberta authors in particular, singing their praises throughout the province and online to the rest of the world, and I have displayed books for authors and publishers at Alberta library conferences.

I created the writing contest, Coffee Shop Author, have sat on the Board of Directors of the Fernie Writers' Conference, served as a member of the Calgary Distinguished Writers Program steering committee, and was a member of the board of directors for the Writers' Guild of Alberta.

I have made the decision to temporarily suspend operations of Alberta Books Canada in order to concentrate on my own writing and publishing, but my friends know this is just a cunning plan to spend several months at my home in the Caribbean, avoiding yet another Calgary winter ... I promise to return to Calgary in the spring with even more ideas on how to promote and market Alberta books.  Susan M. Toy

Also visit Susan's Blog, Books, Publishing, Reading, Writing.

Island in the Clouds: [Amazon] [Amazon CA]

I owe one of our Book Dads readers much gratitude (Thanks Trina!) for introducing me to the website, Flashlight Worthy Books, today’s featured Reading Resource. One reason for this gratitude is that I am always on the look out for good book recommendations, and as the guys from Flashlight say on their About page, it’s much more difficult than you would think:

There are currently 405 recommendation lists broken down into various categories. Looking for recommendations on Parenting books? How about books about Martin Luther King Jr.? If you run a book club, there’s even recommendations for you as well.

Another positive about Flashlight Worthy is that it’s made up of an active book-loving community. If you have a book-related question, you can feel free to post your question so other users of the site can see it and answer. You can even contribute a book list to the site if you choose to as well. There’s also resources for authors and book bloggers to help incorporate lists on their own sites or even make a list of their own. Each list you contribute includes a bio and you can link to your site within the bio.

Check out this resource for yourself by visiting this book recommendation list of Books To Inspire Book-Loving Boys (Thanks again Trina!!). I look forward to diving in much deeper to the Flashlight Worthy book recommendations and will probably contribute my own list