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01.06

Doomed Queens blog tour: Wonders and Marvels book giveaway

The next stop on the Doomed Queens blog tour* has just gone live! Over at Wonders and Marvels, Doomed Queens has been featured as their book of the week.

Wonders and Marvels is quite the wondrous and fun site. Besides being beautifully designed (always a big plus in my book), it’s helmed by Holly Tucker, who teaches at Vanderbilt University in the Department of French & Italian and the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. Holly is also an author herself –she’s written Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France — and is working on a book involving scientific rivalry and murder in 17th century Europe.

All this week Wonders and Marvels will be offering a Doomed Queens book giveaway. In addition, there’s a review and a guest post by me; the giveaway is already in progress. To write my guest post (which goes “live” Thursday and is about the gruesome-yet-fascinating subject of queens and beheading), I even consulted a neuropsychologist. Why? you may wonder. Well, who else could give me the scientific goods on what it feels like to lose your head? The neuropsychologist agreed to meet me one morning at my local coffee house. The whole time we spoke, I hoped no one could overhear our conversation. Despite my best intentions, a few people interrupted to ask what on earth we were talking about. I guess that’s the price one pays for conducting a research interview in public!

Anyway, I hope you’ll go forth and learn more at Wonder and Marvels. If you’re interested in history-inspired books, strange-but-true stories, and quirky facts of ye olde times, I think you’ll find Holly’s site well worth bookmarking.

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*If you have a blog or website you’d like to have featured as part of the Doomed Queens blog tour, please contact me at kris at kriswaldherr dot com.

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Katie Hines wrote on January 6, 2009 at 9:36 am:

Glad you posted about Wonders and Marvels. Sounds interesting, and I’m going to go check it out.

mindy wrote on January 6, 2009 at 1:00 pm:

sounds interesting and thanks

Tammy Darling wrote on January 6, 2009 at 6:02 pm:

I’ve wondered about some of this, but I didn’t realize anyone actually wrote about it.

Beth Groundwater wrote on January 6, 2009 at 6:09 pm:

Thanks for the link to the Wonders and Marvels website. Your book sounded so intriguing that I signed up for the drawing. I hope I win!

kriswaldherr wrote on January 6, 2009 at 6:18 pm:

Tammy, yup people have written about beheading, wondering how long it takes for consciousness to end. The neuropsychologist mentioned a few studies. There’s also a Yahoo page answering this question (which I won’t link to here — the truly curious can easily search it out .

Of course, the famous case of Charlotte Corday is almost always mentioned as an example regarding awareness after meeting Madame la Guillotine (aka “The National Razor”). I wrote about it in Doomed Queens.

Chris v. wrote on January 15, 2009 at 2:31 pm:

I’ve got to read this! I love queens. In high school I did a report on Queen victoria (going so far as to illustrate that jeweled, high-necked gown), loved Princess Diana, and well, all the tragedies adds to the mystery right?

kriswaldherr wrote on January 15, 2009 at 2:34 pm:

Chris, there will be another DOOMED QUEENS giveaway soon. I’ll post about it on Saturday — check this blog then for a chance to enter!

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