The author also revealed the dates when the sixth and seventh books in the series will arrive in bookstores.

A Court of Thorns and Roses author Sarah J. Maas dishes on that scrapped TV series: ‘I want to be in charge’

The author also revealed the dates when the sixth and seventh books in the series will arrive in bookstores.

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'A Court of Thorns and Roses' book series author Sarah J. Maas in 2024. Credit:

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Sarah J. Maas, best-selling author of the *A Court of Thorns and Roses* books, says that her stories are back in her hands.

Hulu had confirmed as late as February 2024 that a long-planned streaming series was in the works, despite reports that an adaptation of the romantasy franchise was dead.

"I have the rights back to everything now," Maas told host Alex Cooper on Wednesday's edition of *Call Her Daddy*. "Getting the rights back to all my things has been a big part of my journey in recent years that maybe at some point soon I will talk more about, but right now my focus is on books and it's been a little while since you guys have had something, so I'm focusing on that."

First announced in 2021, the project was set to be a collaboration with *Outlander*'s Ron Moore as showrunner, Maas had said. But Moore revealed in July 2024 that he was no longer part of the adaptation of the book series about teen huntress Feyre Archeron who's taken into the faerie land of Prythian.

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Maas said in her new interview that she's now focused on the books. Her first tome in the series came out in 2015 and the most recent was published in 2021.

"I look at any TV movie adaptation as kind of another facet of the worlds that I've created," she told Cooper. "And it's something that I want to be in charge of, I want to be figuring out, I want to be learning everything that I can. I'm a type A control freak a little bit, but I want to know everything about how it gets made, not because of that control, but just because I love movies. 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 I know fans want it."

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She added, "I don't ever want to hear like, “Oh, we need to change this to appeal to XYZ’s demographic. I'm like, 'No, that's not how you make art. That's not how I create my stories.' So when I do it, it's gonna be me, and I will dedicate everything that I have to making it right. But I'll be in there, looking at all the design. But also like, 'What does it sound like?' because music plays such a big part. The music is gonna have to be a huge project."

Sarah J. Maas appears on 'Call Her Daddy'.

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Maas is the author of two other series as well, *Crescent City* and *Throne of Glass*, and she has very clear visions of how her books should look and sound on TV.

"I view it as my legacy in a way where I'm like, I put my books out into the world. That's one way that the fans are interacting and seeing these characters, but the physical version of that needs to be aligned," she noted. "It can't just be someone's take on that. I'm like, 'No.'"

During the same appearance, she revealed the release dates of the sixth and seventh *A Court of Thorns and Roses* books: Oct. 27, 2026, and Jan. 12, 2027.

Watch the full conversation above.

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