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Jo Salazar on If We Survive the Night, a YA Zombie Reckoning

Jo Salazar on If We Survive the Night, a YA Zombie Reckoning

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.

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The Photographed Dead: A. Rushby on All Her Beautiful Deaths

The Photographed Dead: A. Rushby on All Her Beautiful Deaths

In this A. Rushby interview, the author of All Her Beautiful Deaths talks Victorian death photography, the ethics of looking at other people’s grief and why her sentient Culpepper House wishes its family well. She also explains why, after the darker Slashed Beauties, she wanted a feminist gothic full of yearning, and names the YA horror novel that gave her nightmares.