Sarah J. Maas is publishing the sixth "A Court of Thorns and Roses" book.Alexandra Genova / SAINT LUCY RepresentsSarah J. Maas announced the release dates for the next two "ACOTAR" novels on "Call Her Daddy."The two books will be released on October 27, 2026, and January 12, 2027.Maas said the two books will be separate volumes of the sixth "ACOTAR" story.After five long years of waiting, Sarah J. Maas fans can rejoice — the sixth "A Court of Thorns and Roses" book finally has a release date. Well, it actually has release dates.On March 4, 2026, the author announced the next "ACOTAR" book would be published on October 27, 2026.The work is eagerly awaited not only by fans but also by Maas' publisher, Bloomsbury. The company's sales fell 10% for the 2025-2026 fiscal year because Maas didn't release a new book, Publishers Weekly reported.Interestingly, though, Maas said her next novel will be just part one of the sixth "ACOTAR" story, with parts two and three released together in January 2027. Part four will be released separately.Here's everything we know about "ACOTAR" book six so far.Warning: Some spoilers for Maas' work ahead, including "ACOTAR" and "Crescent City."Maas is releasing book six of 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' in multiple volumesMaas announced the next "ACOTAR" book was on its way during an appearance on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast with Alex Cooper.She told Cooper she finished the book while writing in Montana over the summer of 2025, but declined to reveal the book's title or which characters from the world of "ACOTAR" will be telling the story.She also didn't share the novel's length, which she said was for a specific reason.Sarah J. Maas for "Call Her Daddy."Call Her Daddy"OK, 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 27, and then on January 12, like two months later, I can't do math, whatever that is, the next ACOTAR book will be coming out," Maas said. "So there will be two books within, like, a very short span."As her fans will know, Maas' books are typically split into parts, separating different sections of the story she is telling. However, when it comes to the sixth "ACOTAR" book, Maas said the individual parts became longer than she anticipated as she started writing, with part one coming in at 400 pages at one point.As she continued writing, Maas decided the parts didn't have to be in a single physical book."I decided I wasn't gonna approach this project from a traditional format of a book," she said. "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?"Maas said the story for "ACOTAR" six was ultimately divided into four parts, though it is still one cohesive story. Part one is the novel that Bloomsbury will publish on October 27, 2026, and parts two and three will be published together as one volume on January 12, 2027. Maas has yet to write or give a publication date for part four, but she said all three volumes would be published "in a very short time."Although the works will be published individually, Maas told Cooper she still hopes readers treat them as one story once they are all out in the world."It's meant to be read, ideally, as one massive, massive story as opposed to in a trilogy," she said. "It's not a trilogy. Like, arcs aren't wrapped up."The next 'ACOTAR' has been in the works for yearsAlthough Maas hadn't given detailed information about the sixth "ACOTAR" book before her "Call Her Daddy" appearance, it wasn't a total shock that her next work would bring readers back to Prythian.In March 2023, Bloomsbury announced that Maas had signed a deal for three more books with the publisher. At the time, she was already under contract for four titles, including "House of Flame and Shadow," the third installment in her "Crescent City" series, published in January 2024.In September 2023, Maas gave readers their first clue as to what would come next in the six books she had left under her contract, telling authors Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings during a "Live Talks Los Angeles" appearance that she was "drafting" the next "ACOTAR" book — and having a blast doing it.Sarah J. Maas in February 2024.Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Tory Burch"I will say that I've become so focused and obsessed with writing this book," she told Hobbs and Billings. "It's like that feeling of having a crush or when you're first, like, obsessed with someone, and you're just thinking about it nonstop."Likewise, in a January 2024 interview with Jenna Bush Hager, Maas said her next published work would be the sixth installment of "ACOTAR," saying she was "very, very excited about that one."However, the book seems to have transformed since those comments based on Maas' conversation with Cooper.Clues about the future of 'ACOTAR'Maas has been tight-lipped about the contents of her coming work, but on Aug
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