When we talked about the possibility of a sequel I was excited because I loved Mary's world. The first book was supposed to be a standalone. Why did you switch heroines between books? They learn to trust others, and to rely on and believe in themselves. In both books the characters learn a tremendous amount about themselves. I thought her story and Gabry's story-my heroine in The Dead-Tossed Waves-are hopeful in the end. She was to decide what she is willing to give up in order to take risk on her own behalf. A lot of what Mary-my heroine in The Forest of Hands and Teeth-has to do is constantly make hard choices. That's just the world of my protagonists. The dedication of the book is to my fiancé JP for giving me the world-we spent so much time talking about zombies and the world for this book. I wanted to experiment with voice-I didn't think it would go anywhere really-it really was an experiment. The first line came to me on the way home one day and this book eventually became The Forest of Hands and Teeth. Then for NaNoWriMo in 2006 I had to start a new novel and for the fun of it I decided to write my zombie apocalypse. That's when I began a steady diet of zombie movies and books. I became fascinated by zombies when my fiancé took me to see Dawn of the Dead. Though I think that people who like dystopian novels would like my books because society has fallen apart and the stories are about how you live in such a society. I don't know if I'd consider them dystopian.
But my books are about how you survive intense challenges in life and there are zombies around while you are trying to survive them. When we say zombie novels people expect the zombie apocalypse. I think of them as novels that happen to have zombies in them.
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