Author Sarah J. Maas is this week’s guest on ‘Call Her Daddy’
USA Today has an exclusive teaser from this week’s episode featuring “ACOTAR” and “Throne of Glass” author, Sarah J. Maas
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It’s been more than five years since Sarah J. Maas last published in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series. That’s about to change.
Maas took to Instagram to reveal the titles of the next highly anticipated installments in the series. After a cryptic social media post earlier this year teasing new ACOTAR, Maas went on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast to confirm two new books were on the way.
“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,” Maas told Cooper. “It took me a while to find the right story and to be in the right headspace. And then what poured out of me was this, and it poured out very quickly.”
Sarah J. Maas reveals the titles of ACOTAR 6 and 7
Book 6 in the A Court of Thorns and Roses series will be “A Court of Splintered Harmony,” out Oct. 27. The seventh book is “A Court of Forgotten Melody,” out Jan. 12. Both are available to preorder.
We’re still awaiting descriptions for the plots, though Maas included a teaser for each book: “What was broken will be remade” for “A Court of Splintered Harmony” and “What was lost will be reclaimed” for “A Court of Forgotten Memory.”
In conversation with Cooper, Maas said she didn’t want to force herself to write a new ACOTAR book after so much time away from the series, instead waiting until the story “hit me hard” and the timing was right.
“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.”
Maas’ announcement came alongside an entire social media refresh, with the author deleting all other posts and rebranding her website with dark grey icons for the new books. The titles were also announced on digital billboards across Los Angeles, Denver and New York City.
Also known for her bestselling Throne of Glass series, Maas’ works have sold more than 85 million copies in English, according to Maas’ publicists. Both have catapulted Maas to BookTok hall-of-fame status, with a global fandom unafraid to root for their favorite heroines − and maybe even tattoo her world on their skin.
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.
Contributing: Anthony Robledo