Lois’s answer to “Would you be willing to make an authorial statement of the status of the WGW outside of Lakewalker/…” > Likes and Comments

I just reread the series recently and I think one of the characters mentions the other continents and speculates that either they're all dead or they're fine and the people there just want nothing to do with them (as you say here).
By the way, they were excellent books, thank you for writing them!