Sarah J. Maas is sitting down for an interview with Call Her Daddy, and host Alex Cooper is asking literally every question you could think of about Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City. Truly a dream come true.
If you aren’t able to watch the Sarah J. Maas x Call Her Daddy interview, but absolutely need the tea, we’re bringing you a recap of all the major reveals.
Psst: we’re recapping this live, so more reveals will be added as the interview progresses!
The Next ACOTAR Is Dropping in October
“Okay, well, first of all, I guess I have really shitty handwriting, like really fucking shitty handwriting of my like arrows and like, numbers look messed up. Like I’m ashamed of this. Like, that was not intentional at all. But I will say that that was ACOTAR Six with the arrow pointing forward to indicate like things going ahead of that. And it is for the next ACOTAR book, which is coming out on October 27th of this year. I’ve been working and working on that. 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 like what poured out of me was this, and it poured out like very quickly. I was in Montana this summer and like, I don’t know, I think there’s like some kinda like energy vortex, like around Big Sky because like I just got there and like it clicked. It all came out of me. So like, talking about like deadline, like that’s what I was working on. I’ve been working on like this next project, I’m not gonna tell you the title yet, but like it’s, or like cover any of that. But like I’ve seen some of it.”
It’s Looooong
“I mean, like, it’s long. It’s long.”
ANOTHER ACOTAR Book Is Dropping in January 2027
“Okay, well, part of why I guess it’s tricky to talk about the length of this book is because this book’s coming out October 27th, and then on January 12th, like two months later, I can’t do math, whatever that is, the next ACOTAR book will be coming out. So there will be two books within like 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 like this, like Montana, like 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 like parts like part one part two, part three, by the time I gotta end of part one it was like 400 pages long. There’s a certain reality to books like ‘Kingdom of Ash’ had to be like two because like the glue will not hold books together, but like what I was writing felt, right? Like that was what the story that needed to be told. And so I decided I wasn’t gonna approach this project from a, you know, traditional format of a book. And what if this story, like, what if this book was really long? Like, what if it took me more than a thousand pages to tell the story that needed to be told the arc that I wanted to create from start to finish. What if that took a long time? Like what if that took me on the constraints of a single volume and what does that look like? How do I tell that story? And so 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 like no amount of glue in like any publisher’s like factory could ever like hold this. So it’s meant to be read ideally as like one massive, massive story as opposed to like in like a trilogy. It’s not a trilogy. Like arcs aren’t like wrapped up. It’s like in the way, like, you know, you take my book, it’s like if you expand it all of part one, all of part two, all parts, like all part, like it would be huge like that. And so I just decided like, I’ve never told a story that way. This is how it wants to come out. Why do I have to be held back by the realities of like, the glue that we need to hold, like pull the pages in or just like placement on a shelf. And like, how do I get the story out to my readers who’ve been waiting like so patiently like as soon as I can, like I could not live with the idea of like publishing part one and then being like, yeah, wait like a year for like, I was like, no. Like I want that in everyone’s hands. And so that’s why we’re doing like this, like back to back release. So there’s gonna be like a lot of ACOTAR in a very short time. And then eventually like the conclusion will be like written like once, once I get, I wanna get these, like I don’t want anyone to wait any longer. But it’s like, it’s a different, it’s you know, it’s ACOTAR, but just I’m telling it in a way that’s exciting to me and like gives me like the space that the story demanded and the characters demanded.”
A Much-Needed ACOTAR TV Series Update
“I have the rights back to everything now. And getting the rights back to all my things has been a big part of my journey in recent years. Right now, my focus is on books. It’s been a little while since you guys have had something. I’m focusing on that, but I look at any TV or movie adaptation as another facet of the worlds I’ve created, and it’s something I want to be in charge of. I want to be figuring out, I want to be learning everything I can…. 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 fans envision it.”
On Her Dream Casting Choice for Rhys
“I have yet to find my perfect Rhys.”
On Whether Tamlin Will Have a Redemption Arc
“I don’t know. It’s tricky because I’ve had so many women, especially including some like very dear friends of mine who like come up and told me about like how they saw their own abusive relationship mirrored in Tamlin. And so if I were to ever write like more about Tamlin, it would be done in a way where like, it doesn’t erase what he has done and it doesn’t like invalidate the feelings of like my readers who have connected to that. Like, it would have to be done in a way that was genuine to him and to reality. But also like, well aware of like what he means for like, different types of people and different experiences and to honor and respect them for that. And like, I don’t usually like let those things dictate what I write, but it’s something like, one of my very best friends is like a survivor of domestic abuse and like, you know, she often refers to her ex as Tamlin and like, I’ve actually talked to her that like, how would you feel like, you know, like if just like me as the creator, like separating us as friends, like, would that feel like a betrayal to you? And so like we’ve had like interesting conversations about it, but it’s something I’d really want to think about. And I’ve given myself like several options because it’s something, hat’s probably like the hardest thing for me to figure out, like, to be quite honest, like, that’s tricky for me. It’s tricky for me also just emotionally because like partying wants to be like, that fucker can burn in hell forever. But like as a writer I’m like, but like, what is the story? What is like, and like, not to excuse him for any of it, but explore it.”
So, Where Is Vaughn?
“You know, that’s actually a thing that I think about a lot. A lot. And that’s all I’ll say about that.”
Why Aelin Had to Lose Her Powers
“I do think that, like, I actually really grappled with that one. Where I was like, I hate the idea of her having to give up something that she learned to love and embrace. But at the same time, I do think that there needs to be some level of sacrifice when it comes to making a decision that big. To give up something that you love for something else, like that’s powerful. I don’t think it would, the ending, would’ve felt as deserved. But then I also think it opens up again in my endless thinking about things, just in me as her creator and writing this. What does it look like for her after that? You know, like you go from like all this power and you give it up and, how does that feel? I find that there was, even with that as an ending, it felt like a different start of a journey. That just was fascinating for me.”
What Are Mor’s Powers?
“Truth. But you like to have other powers beyond that. But I’m not gonna reveal any more about, there might be more about that. You know what, everything is possible. Everything you’re asking right now could just be like, yes. The answer is yes. You’ll find out.”
What’s With the Twilight of the God’s Pinterest Board?
“Really? That was just like a story that I like. It was kinda like Crescent City where like, I always have manuscripts and other stories in my head. I think I have… probably like three or four like unpublished full books for different series on my computer. That I dunno if they’ll ever see the light of day, but, sometimes I just get a story in my head and I wanna start writing it and I get ideas for it, and it comes out, and sometimes I wanna share that with the world and sometimes I don’t.”
How Do Mates Work?
“It’s kinda like your destined true love… [But] there’s a biological component to it, where you can be mated with someone who’s not your true love. There’s true-true mates, and there’s nature made a mistake. Like Rhys’ parents did not love each other, it was not a great relationship, but they were mates.”
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