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.
Stephen Graham Jones’s Blackfeet Books: From Revenge to Redemption
Off the Reservation brings Nate Yellow Tail back from The Only Good Indians, with The Buffalo Hunter Hunter standing between them. This feature traces Stephen Graham Jones’s Blackfeet books from an elk hunt to the Marias Massacre to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and shows how Indigenous horror turns revenge into return.












