Doomed Queens Bitter Wisdom: Advice from beyond the grave

During my January blogathon (remember that?), I began an occasional feature in which I offered up the bitter wisdom of ill-fated female power brokers adapted from Doomed Queens. First up was Cleopatra, who offered advice on how not to choose allies.

Since then, I’ve decided to take this concept a bit further. What if you could consult the queens themselves to take advantage of their bitter wisdom? What advice would they offer us from beyond the grave?

And so I’ve created a website at AsktheQueens.com where you can do this very thing: Type in your question and receive an answer from the queens themselves. Their replies are culled from the cautionary morals featured throughout Doomed Queens — fun and sometimes surprisingly accurate!

The art above is from a video I created to promote Ask the Queens, which is now posted on the site as well as on Youtube. Though the video is up, I plan to revise it in future days.

The voiceover was done by me, if you’re curious what I sound like. I did have a cold while recording it, so this will probably be redone when my sinuses are clear. There’s also an obvious error in the video itself — see if you can catch it! An imaginary gold star goes to the first person to post it in my comments.

Also, if you have any suggestions for how to improve the video, let me know. I’m new to all this video making stuff. But this new form of creativity has been very inspiring to me. I plan to write about this in my next Creativity Friday post.

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This is part of an occasional series on the bitter wisdom of unfortunate female regents. Ask the Queens was adapted from DOOMED QUEENS: Royal Women Who Met Bad Ends, from Cleopatra to Princess Di (Broadway Books, $14.95).

Learn more or purchase DOOMED QUEENS here.

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