Bloomsbury has announced it will publish the next two novels in Sarah J. Maas’s A Court of Thorns and Roses series on October 27, 2026 and January 12, 2027, leading the company to lift its profit projections for its fiscal year ending in February 2027.
Maas published a new title in the ACOTAR series every year from 2015 to 2018; the most recent installment, A Court of Silver Flames, was released in 2021. In the 2024 calendar year, ACOTAR dominated fiction sales in the U.S. and U.K., despite its backlist status, selling more than nine million copies in the U.S. alone. Sales of the series slipped in 2025.
While Maas’s two upcoming titles will be released in separate calendar years, they will both fall in Bloomsbury’s 2027 fiscal year.
“Fans all over the world are eagerly anticipating reading the next books in the ACOTAR series and we are very excited about this news,” Bloomsbury chief executive Nigel Newton said in a statement. “Publishing two novels within 11 weeks of each other from a bestselling author is almost unprecedented in publishing history.”
Given the publication timetable of the new Maas titles, Bloomsbury reported that company profit for the year ending Feb. 28, 2027 is now expected “to be materially ahead” of market consensus expectations. Prior to the Maas announcement, analysts expected that pre-tax profit for the year ending February 28, 2027 to be £44.5 million (about $60 million), a small increase over fiscal 2026.
