FORTHCOMING 01.13.26
A JAN/FEB KIDS’ INDIE NEXT PICK
The Breakfast Club meets 28 Days Later in this revised and expanded edition of Courtney Summers’s cult classic about a traumatized young woman forced to survive the zombie apocalypse.
Sloane Price knows there are worse things than the end of the world, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, the opportunity to escape her violent home life offers no relief. She’s already lost the one thing that matters most—her sister—and now seems like the perfect time to give up.
But when she inadvertently ends up barricaded in her high school with five other teens, their desperate and volatile bids for survival force a series of impossible decisions. As the days creep by and the dead close in, Sloane must confront everything she thought she knew about life, death, survival, and sacrifice and, once and for all, make a choice.
Joined together for the first time in this special “director’s cut” edition, This Is Not a Test and its novella sequel Please Remain Calm explore the forces that tether us to life—and to each other—in our darkest times.
olivia holt stars as sloane
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY ADAM MACDONALD
NEWS
This is Not a Test is a Jan/Feb Kids’ Indie Next Pick!
Less than a month to claim your preorder gifts, which include a signed bookplate, exclusive digital content, and an opportunity to win a VIP bundle.
Read an excerpt of This is Not a Test on Bloody Disgusting.
IFC and Shudder have acquired This is Not a Test for theatrical release in February 2026. [Variety]
Read more about the new expanded and revised “Director’s cut” edition of This Is Not a Test to be published by The Inky Phoenix Press / Bindery Books January 13th, 2026 and preorder your copy today.
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LITERARY AGENT:
Faye Bender, The Book Group
FILM & TV:
Mary Pender, WME
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