Throne of Glass

• Chaol POV in QOS
• HOF was hardest to write
  
• Manon’s POV is easiest to get into
  
• Aelin-Manon meeting in QOS !!!
  
• In regards to how mad Aelin will be when she returns to Adarlan: “Aelin will be mad enough when she returns that it’s a good thing her magic is stifled”
  
• “Definitely possible” for Fae to have more than one soul mate!!! 
  
• Character Sarah is most excited for us to meet/re-meet in QoS = Lysandra
• Asterin Blackbeak is wanted for murder
• Five year old Dorian would want 30 year old Dorian to be an “epic dragon-slayer”
• If Sarah could bring back any character that she killed, it would be Nehemia
• Sneak Peeks into QOS: “Violence, revenge, steamytimes, attitude problems, epic shenanigans… the usual”
• Rowan’s cadre may “purrrrrrrhaps” show up again
• On whether Aelin’s fae-ness makes her immortal: “you’ll find that out in future books”
• Influence for Rowan: “Rowan just walked into my head one day, and that was that”
• QOS is just over 180k words
• SJM knows how ToG will end but “still many, many stories to be told in that world afterwards”
• Manon likes to have her hair brushed
• Yrene will be returning in future ToG books
• Celaena’s weapon of choice = daggers
• Fleetfoot is 100% confirmed to survive the series
• Nox will return (as of right now ) but not is QoS
• “Nox has been off on some VERY fun adventures since TOG”
  
• Best thing about writing Celaena = her fire (figurative and literal)
• Ending of ToG won’t be like fiction press draft which Sarah considers to be “an entirely different book” of which “everything has been thrown out”
• Dorian stole a berry pie from castle kitchen when he was 11, ate the whole thing and was sick for a day (random fact)
• Dorian is 6′0, Chaol is 6′1, Celaena is 5′7-5′8, Aedion is 6′3, Rowan is around 6′4
• Ansel will return
• “Perhaps” we will see the Silent Assassin’s again. “Perhaps” they will play a role in later books.
  
• Rowan would win in a fight against Legolas… “Duh”!
• Chaol gets his “fair share of page time” in QoS
• Ironteeth “witches have slits high up in their gums where the iron teeth snap down/over their normal teeth”
• Arobynn is mid-late 30s
• Piano is only instrument Celaena can play
  
• Chaol has “the NICEST buns” (lol)
• It was always the plan for Sam to die
  
• “Sam is 1000% dead and never coming back”
• Chaol had “a few” love interests before Celaena
• Most important question asked (according to SJM): “who has the better bum, Chaol, Dorian or Rowan?” - SJM won’t answer except to say that Celaena definitely has an opinion on this
  
• SJM knows who Celaena is going to end up with 

A Court of Thorns and Roses

• Lots of romance and some sexytimes 
  
• Working on last names for Tamlin and co.
  
• Potential companion novels!
  
• Book #2 is currently only Feyre’s POV
  
• More Nesta and future ACOTAR books
  
• (spoiler-y) Someone special for Lucien down the road
• Took 5 weeks to write first draft (”crazy fast”)
  
• Book 2 is longer (as of right now)
• Currently no time to write ACOTAR novellas but “maybe one day”
• Rhys is favorite character to write in ACOTAR
• Tamlin’s chest is so chiseled, “you could literally crack a nut on his chest”
• Rest of ACOTAR will have fairy tale roots but any specifics would be “spoiler-y”

TOG + ACOTAR

• Celaena was harder to write than Feyre because “I had to rip open old wounds and dark parts of myself to write HOF”
• Lucien and Dorian would be “bffers”
  
• ACOTAR cover might be favorite
• Chaol and Tamlin would be good friends (but tense at first)
  
• If Celaena and Feyre met, “they would be like two cats meeting for the first time”
  
• ACOTAR men would not know what to do with Celaena, she would eat them all alive
• Favorite villain to write = Manon’s grandmother
  
• SJM’s advice to surviving SJM’s endings: “invest in tissues. and chocolate”
• Cover color decisions are not up to SJM
• “TOG and ACOTAR are in the same Megaverse. So you could technically open a Wyrdgate between their worlds.”
  
• Working on sharing annotated playlists but “they’re all really realllllly long”

Character Personalities

• Feyre would love Sophia Coppola films
• Celaena would love Gone With the Wind
• Dorian would love classics (films)
  
• “Rhys wears black boxers… when he feels like wearing underwear at all.”
  
• If Celaena were an animal, she would “10000%” be a velociraptor
  
• Feyre’s sport is cross-country or swimming
  
• Manon’s sport is ice-hockey (without pads preferable)
• Celaena’s sport is soccer
  
• Feyre’s most visited website = Pinterest
• Celaena’s most visited website = Goodeads
  
• Rhys’ theme song = “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred
• Celaena’s unofficial theme song = “Back in Black” by AC/DC
  
• TOG characters who would have tattoos (if modern day): Aedion, Celaena, Rowan, Nehemia
• TOG characters who would not have tattoos (if modern day): Manon, Dorian, Chaol
• Celaena is a “double-shot-espresso-hold-the-bs” type of person (not tea)
  

Writing

• SJM likes/prefers writing longer books
• “Might have something up her sleeve” in terms of what book she will right after the current two series are done
  
• “Every book is it’s own journey and has its own challenges– and it definitely doesn’t get any easier.”
  
• “HATES” outlining but makes “extensive playlists” to “keep track of story structure”
  
• Will “NEVER be done adding hot men to the line-up”
• Needs to have a beginning and ending before committing to a story
• Other fairy tales Sarah would consider adapting = Firebird Legends, Vasilisa the Brave/Beautiful (Russian folklore)
• Can write male and female characters of equal awesomeness because she “sold her soul to a demon at the crossroads at midnight”

Sarah J Maas

• Best Book Sarah’s read in the last year = Truthwitch by Susan Dennard
  
• Favorite Anime (growing up) = Sailor Moon, Utena, Magic Knight, Rayearth, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yuugi, and Ronin Warriors
• Won’t answer which male character she would be with because people might read too much into it
  
• Would take on Mydengaard Wyrm (from ACOTAR) and “be a BAMF”
• Met Susan Dennard online via a group blog, “rest is history”
• Favorite line from ToG = “Because hers was not a story of darkness.”
• Preferred superpower = shape shifting
• Would shape-shift into tiger or dragon or velociraptor
• Would be best friends with Asterin Blackbeak in real life
• If Celaena were to all of a sudden appear in real life, SJM would first and foremost introduce her to iTunes
• Before writing, wanted to be a marine biologist living on a boat and studying great white sharks
• “PROUD Feminist”
  
• Has an entire shelf in her fridge dedicated to cheese