In “Survive The Night,” he sees Charlie turn from a supporting character in her own life to its protagonist as she struggles to put the correct scenes together in her mind.

Sager likes writing about strong female leads, focusing on their will to survive, fight and persevere. “Yes, Nirvana was a given because I blasted that on my tape deck.” “I thought the songs would have extra meaning and give a certain mood,” he said, adding that he was a senior in high school when “Nevermind” was released. On top of including Nirvana’s “Come as You Are” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” he references “Kiss Them For Me” by Siouxsie and the Banshees and “Just Like Heaven” from The Cure, both of which play a significant role in the book. The story takes place in 1991, the year Nirvana’s “Nevermind” dominated MTV and radio. He also cleverly uses music to further the plot. “Right, I would be one of those people that Charlie would be like, ‘You’re not worth talking to.’” “There’s a little joke in the book about that,” he said with a laugh, noting that Charlie warns Josh to “stay away” from people who list the Julie Andrews classic as one of their favorite films. Much like the heroine in his book, Sager’s favorite films are “Jaws,” “Rear Window,” “Silence of the Lambs” and a film he pokes fun at in the book, “The Sound of Music.” Sager graduated from Penn State University and currently resides in New Jersey. “It was a fun way to play with what was happening and guessing what’s real and what’s a movie.” Sager dealt with this by writing that Charlie’s trauma affects how her brain works, so she has trouble distinguishing between fact and fiction. But one of the problems,” he says, “was how was I going to keep her in this car for such a long period of time and not have readers be like, ‘Just jump out of the car, you idiot!’” “I wanted to have a lot of movie references, because it’s fun and readers like that.

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