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.
Dani Soncasie on the Horror That Made Her!
Dani Soncasie, writer of the vampire graphic novel Blood of the Forsaken, picks the horror influences that shaped her. Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, The Lost Boys and Garth Ennis’s Hellblazer each left a mark on the monsters she makes now.












