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.
Nick Medina on Savage Lake: The Lake That Swallows Secrets
Nick Medina talks Savage Lake, his fourth novel, where a Tribal roadblock strands a mother and son at a cabin on Torchlight Lake. He explains why he left the Takoda books behind, how he took cryptid horror back to its roots in Native belief, and what readers wrongly expect from Indigenous horror.





