Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
Little More Than Ants: Kevin J. Anderson on Nether Vortex
Kevin J. Anderson talks Nether Vortex, the second book in his Nether series, and how a haunted house in space became a galactic war. He covers his Lovecraft debts, Margo and Benedict Noor, the planned films and why stories still matter to people facing the void.


