I am pleased as punch to announce that Arcadia will continue on her merry demon-infested adventures for Books 3 & 4! I have a new editor at Simon & Schuster, the very charming Adam Wilson, and I’m looking forward to working with him.

Wait, there’s more! In addition to more Arcadia books, there will also be an Arcadia digital short story, hopefully in time for the holidays.

More Cady. More Lon. More Jupe. More supernatural trouble.

Many thanks to my lovely agent Laura Bradford, and to the readers and bloggers who took a chance on something different and made Arcadia a success!

Since KINDLING was released, I’ve stumbled upon entire threads about Lon’s pirate mustache. When I first wrote Lon, I thought readers might have trouble with his age (42) which is definitely unusual for the genre. And I suspected some folks might have issues with the age difference between him and Arcadia. Or maybe that he was a single dad with a teenage son. Or that he’s not 100% MEGA ALPHA HULK MAN ™ (I like to think that he’s a nice mix of alpha and beta).

But I had NO IDEA Lon’s facial would be the real controversy. Is Lon truly the first urban fantasy hero with a mustache? I find that hard to believe.

Though, like Cady, most readers come around to loving Lon’s stache, a few anti-facial hair stragglers remain. Now, I’m aware that a lot of super-uncool facial hair constructions exist out there. So in case you are on the fence, I’ve provided some visual comparisons below to help you understand the difference between Cool and Uncool mustaches.

COOL :

UNCOOL:

Any others I’ve missed?

Crossposted from my twitter feed today:

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