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 Kin by Katya de Becerra Review: Folk Horror With an Anthropologist’s Eye
Katya de Becerra’s first adult novel takes an anthropologist to a secretive island near the Arctic Circle, where old rules and older creatures wait. This Little Kin review finds folk horror with real cultural logic behind it, and one weak link in a rushed romance.



