Excerpt + odds and ends

Hello all!  First off, cause I've gotten this question a few times and haven't updated my website: there will be a sequel/companion to The Forest of Hands and Teeth.  Its title is The Dead-Tossed Waves and it comes out Spring 2010.  There will also be a third book in the series out Spring 2011 but we don't have a title for that book (or for the series) yet.  If you have title ideas for either the book or series, leave them in the comments!

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