Amazing news for everyone heavily invested in A Court of Thorns and Roses: Sarah J. Maas just announced that we’re getting not one but two (!) new books.
Speaking on Call Her Daddy, the best-selling author confirmed that the next ACOTAR book comes out on October 27 of this year.
“I’ve been working and working on that,” she said. “It’s been a long time coming. It’s something that I, it took me a long time to write, just because there were enough things going on in my life that I had to like sort through and I had to, like, and again, like, I will talk about that perhaps in more detail. I’ve already cried once today. Like, my makeup stayed intact. Let’s not push it. But that it’s taken a while because it took me a while to find the right story and to be in the right head space. And then what poured out of me was this, and it poured out very quickly. I was in Montana this summer and, like, I don’t know, I think there’s some kinda, like, energy vortex around Big Sky because I just got there and, like, it clicked. It all came out of me. So like, talking about deadline, like that’s what I was working on. I’ve been working on this next project, I'm not gonna tell you the title yet or, like, cover or any of that. But, like, I’ve seen some of it.”
Sarah didn’t drop a page count, but she did say it’s long…and then casually revealed that it’ll be followed up by another ACOTAR book a couple of months later in January 2027.
“This book is coming out October 27, and then on January 12, like two months later,” she explained. “So there will be two books within a very short span. And what that means and giving you like a glimpse into this project. It’s just the story that was finally ready to come out of me was big, really, really, really big. And as I started writing this in Montana, like in an energy vortex, like it came outta me in a way that surprised me. And by the time I reached, you know, I like to do parts like part one part two, part three, by the time I gotta end of part one, it was like 400 pages long.”
Sarah added that she gave herself room to make the story really long and abandon a traditional format, saying, “Part one was this huge, huge thing. And then I realized it was gonna be four parts. A book told in four parts. So then I wrote part two, and part three. And those were really fucking long. And so, like, and then part four has yet to be written because right now I’m trying to just get part one, which is out in October. And then parts two and three to be out in January is like one combined thing. So it’s basically gonna be, like, three physical volumes, but it's like one thing altogether that no amount of glue in, like, any publisher’s factory could ever like hold this.”
She noted that it is ideally meant to be read as one “massive, massive story as opposed to…a trilogy,” which is why the books are coming out back-to-back. “I could not live with the idea of publishing part one and then being like, yeah, wait like a year…I was like, no,” she said. “Like I want that in everyone’s hands. And so that’s why we’re doing, like, back-to-back release. So there’s gonna be, like, a lot of ACOTAR in a very short time.”
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