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I finally joined the Twitterverse on Sunday. I guess I did it a little too enthusiastically because when I woke up Monday morning, my account had been suspended. However, I appealed right away, and by early afternoon, it was up and running again.

So if you’re on Twitter too, you can follow me @RHChatlien. Hope to see you there.

Many thanks to Mary Todd, author of UNRAVELLED, for interviewing me on her blog today.

I’ve been quiet lately because I had another biopsy yesterday. The results, which will come next week, should tell us what stage cancer I have.

Because of those other things going on in my life, I’m afraid I’m dreadfully behind on reading the blogs I follow. I was hoping to catch up, but I think I need to accept that’s not going to happen. I’ll start afresh next week.

In the meantime, I’ve been dealing with a much more pleasant form of evaluation. I’m getting positive book reviews of The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte on both Amazon and Goodreads. Click on the links to check them out.

Yesterday, I started working on a new novel. I’d already done some preliminary reading for it last summer. Now I’ve started serious research.

I won’t reveal precise details about the subject of an unpublished novel on the Internet, but I can say that this upcoming book will be quite different from The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte. It’s set in a later time period—the 1860s—and in a region that was still frontier. What the two books have in common is that each features a strong female protagonist whose life is affected by war. I’ll need to take a research trip for the new book this summer, but I’ll probably start writing long before then. I imagine I’ll follow the same method I used with Madame Bonaparte—do a couple of month of intense research and then start writing, while continuing to research details as needed.

My rough goal is to finish the draft in 2014 and to have the book published in 2015. I think that may be the extent of my New Year’s resolutions for the coming year.

How about you? Do you make resolutions?

I have a giveaway of The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte in progress on Goodreads. Members can sign up to win an autographed copy. I’ll give away five after the promotion ends on January 15.

If you’re curious about the book but short on cash because of the holiday season, this is a chance to get a free copy.

And a special thank you to all of you who have visited or left comments in the short time this blog has been going. I hope you have an abundant and peace-filled holiday.