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.
Hobbe’s Folly by Adam Macqueen Review: The Brick Box You Must Never Open
Adam Macqueen’s Hobbe’s Folly sends a prim Edwardian bookseller and a modern council officer to the same bricked-up window, a century apart. This Hobbe’s Folly review explains why the Swift Press novel is the occult horror novel and Edwardian ghost story to read this autumn.









