Sarah J. Maas Reveals Back-to-Back New ACOTAR Novels, Book Six to Arrive in October 2026

Sarah J. Maas is writer to immoderate of the astir fashionable romantasy novels successful existence. Arguably her astir fashionable series, A Court of Thorns and Roses (ACOTAR), has been successful limbo for 5 years arsenic fans person waited for immoderate quality astir the adjacent book. And arsenic of March 4, we yet person a merchandise day for publication six connected the record. The biggest surprise, however, was Maas announcing publication 7 with a merchandise day conscionable implicit 2 months aft publication six comes out.

Mass announced ACOTAR publication six volition merchandise connected October 27, 2026, followed by publication 7 connected January 12, 2027. She shared the quality connected the astir caller occurrence of the Call Her Daddy podcast.

"It's been a agelong clip coming. It's thing that took maine a agelong clip to write, conscionable due to the fact that determination were capable things going connected successful my life," Maas said successful the interview. "It's taken a portion due to the fact that it took maine a portion to find the close communicative and to beryllium successful the close caput space. And past what poured retired of maine was this, and it poured retired precise quickly."

This is monolithic quality for fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses and was a astonishment announcement aft going quiescent pursuing her erstwhile uncover of finishing her archetypal draught of ACOTAR 6 backmost successful July 2025. The erstwhile introduction successful the series, A Court of Silver Flames, released successful February 2021.

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Maas went connected to sermon wherefore she decided to merchandise 2 books astatine once, saying: "So determination volition beryllium 2 books wrong a precise abbreviated span. And what that means and giving you a glimpse into this project, it's conscionable the communicative that was yet acceptable to travel retired of maine was large – really, really, truly big. And arsenic I started penning this successful this, Montana-like vigor vortex, it came retired of maine successful a mode that amazed me." She continued connected astir her process, detailing that, "it's meant to beryllium work ideally arsenic similar 1 massive, monolithic communicative arsenic opposed to a trilogy."

Maas explained she writes books successful parts, and that ACOTAR six is "Part 1" with ACOTAR 7 being "Parts 2 and 3" portion hinting astatine "Part 4" coming astatine a aboriginal clip arsenic publication 8 – but her main precedence is getting the 2 books edited and released first.

In the interview, Maas was besides asked astir the ACOTAR TV series, which was reportedly scrapped astatine Hulu past year. She mentioned that she has regained the rights, and whitethorn soon speech much astir that process aft she stops focusing connected the books.

"Right present my absorption is connected books and it's been a small portion since you guys person had something, truthful I'm focusing connected that, but I look astatine immoderate TV movie adaptation arsenic benignant of similar different facet of the worlds that I've created and it's thing that I privation to beryllium successful complaint of," Maas said astir a imaginable series.

"I privation to beryllium a portion of that and I privation to spot everything adapted the mode I envision it and the mode I cognize fans privation it, and I don't ever privation to perceive like, 'Oh, we request to alteration this to entreaty to XYZ’s demographic.' I'm like, 'No, that's not however you marque art. That's not however I make my stories,' truthful erstwhile I bash it, it's gonna beryllium maine and I volition dedicate everything that I person to making it right"

With different fashionable romantasy stories similar Fourth Wing getting TV adaptations, it seems astir inevitable that ACOTAR volition yet get a series. In the meantime, 2 caller books successful the span of a twelvemonth is fantastic quality for fans.