Sarah J. Maas finally reveals two more ACOTAR books are on the way

Clare Mulroy and Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY Thu, March 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM UTC

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Romantasy fans have waited five years with little word on the next installment of Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Thorns and Roses series. That changes today.

Maas announced on the Wednesday, March 4 episode of the "Call Her Daddy" podcast that two books from the ACOTAR series are coming out within the upcoming year.

The first of the two will release on Oct. 27 and the next on Jan. 12, Maas confirmed, telling host Alex Cooper that a "really, really, really big" story was finally ready to come out of her.

"It's meant to be read ideally as one massive, massive story as opposed to like in a trilogy," she told Cooper. "It's not a trilogy. Arcs aren't wrapped up. It's like in the way you take my book, it's like if you expand it all of part one, all of part two, all parts, it would be huge like that. And so I just decided, I've never told a story that way. This is how it wants to come out."

Sarah J. Maas explains why the book took so long

The "Throne of Glass" author discussed the tricky experience of writing another ACOTAR book after all this time. She explained that she was hesitant to force herself to write one because "that doesn't make a good book."

"If I feel like I have writer's block, I'm like, 'Get your ass in the chair and work,' but this was different. This was different," Maas said. "I needed to get something sorted out first, and so this came out, like when this right story hit me, it hit me hard and I had a vision from the start of what it would be, how I would deliver it to you guys."

She said she embraced the freedom of being in the driver's seat, telling stories only when the timing is right, free from the narrative boxes authors often feel trapped in.

Sarah J Maas in a "Call Her Daddy" episode that released on March 4, 2026.Is it a six or an arrow? Sarah J. Maas explains cryptic post

Earlier in the day, USA TODAY teased an exclusive clip from the episode, in which Cooper promised to grill the author on her cryptic Instagram post from July, in which she shared that her first draft of the book was done. Maas joked that she has poor handwriting and clarified that the cryptic post was of "ACOTAR Six with the arrow pointing forward to indicate things going ahead of that."

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"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 sort through," she said. "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."

Maas declined to reveal the title of the book yet or tease a cover of her next project.

Sarah J. Maas is Alex Cooper's next guest on Call Her Daddy.

Maas' series, which was first published in 2015, contains five books: "A Court of Thorns and Roses," "A Court of Mist and Fury," "A Court of Wings and Ruin," "A Court of Frost and Starlight" and "A Court of Silver Flames."

Fans are already placing bets about which character ACOTAR 6 it'll follow. Will it be Elain? Mor? Lucien? Nesta?

Sarah J Maas addresses possible ACOTAR TV series

Cooper asked Maas whether she was interested in a television adaptation of the ACOTAR book series, to which she expressed concerns about having to compromise on her creative vision. While she confirmed she now owns the rights to all her work, she said she won't adapt her work for the screen until she has a guarantee that there won't be any restrictions.

"I'm a type A control freak a little bit, but I want to know everything about how it gets made, not because of that control, but just because I love movies. I love TV. I want to be a part of that and I want to see everything adapted the way I envision it and the way I know fans want it," Maas said.

Maas also said she would struggle to cast Rhysand from the ACOTAR series, as she hasn't yet found an actor who could do the character justice.

Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY’s Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you’re reading at cmulroy@usatoday.com.

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