Introducing The Book Maven!

You remember a book or maybe just have heard of it, but you can't remember the title or the author. You really want to read it, but how can you if you don't know where or how to find it? Or perhaps you have a yen to read about a historical event or a famous person, and you wonder if anyone has written a novbel about it or him/her. Perhaps you even want to write the book yourself but want to be the first or only one?

Whatever your situation, you know this has happened to you. You can almost see the book in your hot little hands. You wish there was someone, a book maven you suppose, who knew all about books, in particular historical novels, and would know the title and author and could even find it for you.

There is. This week we launched a new feature on That's All She Read called, fortuitously enough called, well, Book Maven!

Everyone knows that Brandy Purdy can write one hell of a great historical novel. She's done it twice already, with The Confession of Piers Gaveston and The Boleyn Wife (originally published as Vendeance Is Mine.) (More on all three at http://www.brandypurdy.com.)

But did you know that she is also a talented bloodhound? No, I don't mean canis sleuthus criminallis floppus earae literally. For years she has been a professional book maven. People ask her to find books and she does. Even obscure or rare ones, if it is possible.

Now she is going to share part of that talent with us on That's All She Read. For instance, check out "Introducing Book Maven". You will get to see our bloodhound in action and how to get your own questions about historical novels answered.

Thanks, O redoubtable sleuth, for sharing your talent with our readers!

Ask the Book Maven a question.