ACOTAR fans, THIS is not a drill. Our queen and the founder of the bedrock of romantasy, Sarah J. Maas, is going on Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast to discuss the Maasverse, ACOTAR 6, and everything else. This post contains everything we’ve learned from the Sarah J Maas Call Her Daddy interview, categorized per spoilers and series level. So if you’ve only read some of the Maasverse and not the rest of it, you should be safe here!
The episode dropped on March 4, 2026 on Call Her Daddy’s YouTube. We’re covering the book stuff here, but the interview goes way beyond that. Sarah opens up about her writing journey, the personal challenges that shaped her books, and what she wants her legacy to be. It’ll change the way you read her work. Seriously, go watch it.
Here’s how this post works:
We’ve broken everything down by series (ACOTAR, Throne of Glass, Crescent City, and Maasverse crossovers) and then by spoiler boundaries within each section. Every section is clearly labeled so you can skip around without accidentally ruining something for yourself. You’re welcome.
The Most Important Announcements
Who do you think will be the main characters in ACOTAR 6?
Who do you think will be the main characters in ACOTAR 6?
Q: When is ACOTAR 6 coming out?
A: ACOTAR 6 is coming out on October 27, 2026.
Q: How long is ACOTAR 6?
A: She can’t say, but it’s long.
Q: Who is ACOTAR 6 about?
A: She can’t say, but it surprised her.
Q: Is there anything else she wants to share?
A: ACOTAR 7 is coming out on January 12, 2027.
The reason there are two books is that the story she’s writing is really long. She decided to approach this project differently. She wrote part one and it was already 400 pages. So ACOTAR 6 in October is part one, and ACOTAR 7 in January is parts two and three. She also mentioned a part four, which could mean a third book is on the way too.
To summarize:
- ACOTAR 6 (October 2026) = Part 1
- ACOTAR 7 (January 2027) = Parts 2 and 3
- Part 4 mentioned but no date/details = likely ACOTAR 8
Potential ACOTAR 6 Plot Points (Contains ACOTAR Series Spoilers)
Q: Is Elain rejecting her bond with Lucien?
A: Elain is going through her own stuff. She’s processing being violently turned into Fae, and on top of that her “mate” is one of the people responsible for her becoming Fae. Does nature make mistakes with mates? What happens if you don’t want to be mated?
ACOTAR
What was your favorite ACOTAR book?
What was your favorite ACOTAR book?
No Spoilers
Q: What’s going on with the potential ACOTAR TV series?
A: She has the rights back to everything now. Her focus right now is on the books, but she wants to talk about what owning her work means to her soon because it’s been really important to her. She wants to be involved in how everything gets made. She doesn’t want to change her work to appeal to certain demographics and she wants it done right.
Q: What does she think of AI fan art of ACOTAR characters like Rhysand and the Spring Court?
A: She hasn’t actually seen them. But she struggles with the casting side of things. Like, how would you find the perfect Rhysand? She hasn’t found anyone perfect yet. She can’t just accept someone for the sake of it. It has to be organic and come from her.
Post A Court of Thorns and Roses Spoilers
Q: How does she write romance?
A: She writes stuff she thinks is hot. Sometimes her characters get together without her even planning it. For example, she was writing Tamlin and Feyre, and then Rhys walked into the scene at Calanmai and she realized it was going to be Rhys, not Tamlin.
Q: Why is there a pool of starlight in the Spring Court?
A: She asked who thinks of these things and said the readers are paying too close attention. Then she didn’t answer.
Post A Court of Mist and Fury Spoilers
Q: Tamlin vs Rhysand. What was she hoping readers would see?
A: People change in relationships. Feyre and Tamlin went through a trauma together. He had a terrible family and was never able to deal with that. He doesn’t have the emotional tools to handle it, and he drags Feyre down with him. There are different ways to deal with hard things, and Feyre sees that between Rhysand and Tamlin. She wanted her readers to see that too.
Q: Will Tamlin have a full redemption arc?
A: She doesn’t know. Her friends have mirrored their own abusive relationships to Tamlin. If she ever redeems him, it won’t erase what he’s done and it’ll be grounded in reality.
Q: What’s the most romantic moment she’s written for Feyre and Rhysand?
A: Starfall. It reminds her of Florence and the Machine’s “Cosmic Love.”
Q: What are her thoughts on Chapter 55 of ACOMAF?
A: “Finally they’re f*cking!!!” Jokes aside, it’s the break of tension. She’s glad it’s been such a big hit because it was the scene of their emotional connection she was most looking forward to writing.
Post A Court of Silver Flames Spoilers
Q: There’s a lot of discourse about Feyre’s pregnancy and her agency. Why did she write it that way?
A: She loves her children but she hated being pregnant. It was a traumatic experience for her. Her son was born via emergency c-section. Her birth plan was interrupted as badly as humanly possible. Her recovery was also pretty awful.
She realized that if she had been born a hundred years ago, she and her son would have been dead, and that lingered with her. Feyre was her own way of processing what she went through. Rhys’s fear was a mirror of her own fear.
Q: In A Court of Silver Flames, Nesta goes through serious mental health struggles. What can she share about her own mental health?
A: All of her characters mirror what she’s going through in her life. She wrote A Court of Silver Flames after her son was born. She published three books that year and was asked to come back from maternity leave. She started having panic attacks and found herself in a really dark place. That’s when she started going to therapy.
What Nesta feels throughout Silver Flames is what she was feeling during therapy. The scene with Nesta and Cassian on the hike is based on her exact experience hiking with her husband Josh in New Zealand.
Feyre’s panic attacks in A Court of Mist and Fury also came from her own experience, but at the time she didn’t understand why she felt the way she did.
Q: What are her thoughts on Rhysand and Feyre’s relationship? Especially when it came to the pregnancy?
A: She wants her couples to be partners, and Feyre and Rhysand are. In A Court of Silver Flames, Rhys is allowed to make his own mistakes. He’d never been a mate or a husband before. He’s frantic, and Feyre is full of joy, and he can’t figure out how he’d be the one to take that joy away. They’re mates and they’re learning to be a couple together.
Q: How do Fae without wings enter the House of Wind?
A: This is something we might find out.
Q: What is Rhysand’s last name?
A: She is NOT telling us. Does it matter? It doesn’t matter. He’s one of one.
Q: What are Morrigan’s powers?
A: Truth. But she won’t say more than that.
Q: Can she tell us more about the Dusk Court?
A: She laughed.
Q: Where did Bryaxis go?
A: Where does fear itself go?
Q: Who is Mama Archeron? Did she descend from Archeron witches?
A: She said she needed a drink.
Throne of Glass
No Spoilers
Q: When did she start writing Throne of Glass?
A: She started writing Throne of Glass when she was 16 during her emo phase. She was also in her Lord of the Rings era.
Q: Will we ever see Throne of Glass characters again?
A: She thinks about them all the time.
Q: What happened to the World of Throne of Glass book?
A: It means a lot to her. She wants to dedicate time to it.
Post Crown of Midnight Spoilers
Q: What did she want to communicate to her readers with Aelin?
A: Aelin came through her. She’s gone through everything Sarah has gone through. She came out of her fully, like Athena springing from Zeus’s head. Aelin just led the way. She led Sarah and went where she needed to go as Sarah’s life progressed.
She can look back at Throne of Glass and think about what in her own life inspired certain scenes. Feelings of being young, everything being beautiful, that sense of “isn’t it amazing to be here” helped her connect with the character.
She also felt like a lot of characters at the time weren’t realistic women. The anger and rage Aelin sometimes demonstrates is something Sarah sees as more realistic. A woman who makes bad choices and learns from them rather than the more classical, always-kind women being portrayed. She wanted Aelin to have multiple relationships instead of meeting one guy and being with him the rest of her life. Aelin is going to be who she is, and people can take it or leave it if they don’t like her.
Manon is the same way. Aelin but taken to a more extreme level.
Post Kingdom of Ash Spoilers
Q: What did Lorcan do?
A: She didn’t even know this was such a huge deal. Someone had to explain it to her. She doesn’t know how she feels about it, but maybe bonus content as a Christmas present in the future!
Q: Where’s Vaughan?
A: That’s something she thinks about a lot. And that’s all she’s going to say about that.
Q: Why did Aelin have to give up her powers?
A: She grappled with that a lot. She struggled with Aelin giving up something she’d grown to love and embrace. But there needs to be a level of sacrifice when a decision that big is being made. And as a writer, she wondered where Aelin would go from there. It’s almost like the start of a new chapter for her. She also responded to online criticism about why women have to lose their power. She said taking away their magic doesn’t take away their strength. The magic doesn’t define them, so losing it doesn’t make them weak.
Q: Where’s Manon now?
A: She is in therapy.
Q: What is the King of Hybern’s actual name?
A: That might actually come up later.
Crescent City
Q: Is Cormac actually dead?
A: She evaded.
Q: Are Bryce and Hunt endgame?
A: Yes.
Maasverse
Q: Who’s her favorite couple?
A: She wouldn’t answer.
Q: How has she been able to connect all three of her series together?
A: Because she started writing so young, she had a lot of time to think through everything. During the time she was trying to get published with Throne of Glass, she was able to write the first two ACOTAR books. She ended up rewriting A Court of Mist and Fury. Crescent City was a passion project for her. She’d be done with ACOTAR and Throne of Glass for the day and then wanted to go play in the Crescent City world. ACOTAR and Throne of Glass are a lot less explicit, so Crescent City was her outlet for a lot of curse words and mature content.
Q: Does she have a map or visualization of how everything connects together?
A: Nope. Everything lives in her head. She sometimes relives scenes she’s written through music or moments. If a scene has struck her really hard, she thinks about how to bring it back. She believes in cosmic interference and psychic moments. She has crystals all over the place and believes some of it comes from a supernatural level when she lands in a good spot.
Q: F*ck, marry, kill: Rhysand, Hunt, Rowan ?
A: She said she’d f*ck them all and couldn’t kill any of them.
Q: Is settling the same thing as the drop?
A: She wouldn’t answer.
Q: Is Bryce mated to Azriel?
A: No.
Q: How did the Book of Breathing and the Walking Dead end up in Jesiba’s library?
A: Stay tuned.
Q: Are Rhys and Ruhn related?
A: No answer.
Q: Is Maeve related to either of them?
A: She deflected and asked if we just want to see her notebooks.
Q: Who is Fury Axtar? Is she the mercenary Feyre sees in ACOTAR?
A: She didn’t answer.
Q: Does the Twilight of the Gods Pinterest board mean anything?
A: There are sometimes stories in her head we don’t get to see.
Okay, so that was a lot. We have a lot of thoughts. Like, since the new book is a surprise, is it not Elain’s book after all? IS IT ANOTHER TANDEM? We have so many theories. We need to think about it for a second, but if you have any thoughts we’re DYING to know.
Now that the new books are coming soon, we’ll likely be ramping up our ACOTAR content again, especially theories. So check back soon if you want to stay in the loop.
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