– My Queen of Shadows has left the building and won’t arrive until September 7! =/ –
I was searching for something the other day and came across this brilliant Tumblr post with a lot of facts and information about Sarah J. Maas, her books, her upcoming books, etc. This list is NOT MINE! I repeat, it is NOT MINE! I found it of HERE. But given that I can’t reblog Tumblr posts to WordPress, here it is. If you have Tumblr, make sure to visit the original post there, ok?
I will warn you, there will obviously be some kind of SPOILERS, though not that many plotwise. You can just skip the topics you don’t want to know about! 😉 (I will be making some comments of a few lines and those will be in pink).
EVERYTHING YOU MISSED AT THE #ACOTARPARTY
Throne of Glass
- Chaol POV in QoS – wait, didn’t he have POV in all the books so far?! I’m confused!
- HoF was hardest to write
- Manon’s POV is easiest to get into
- Aelin-Manon meeting in QOS !!! – YAY! Wonder how that’ll go down…
- 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” – Will she get even madder when she finds out that her cousin is locked away and her Prince is wearing a collar?
- “Definitely possible” for Fae to have more than one soul mate!!! – My SHIP WILL SAIL! Just saying, I want Rowan and Aelin to happen!
- Character Sarah is most excited for us to meet/re-meet in QoS = Lysandra
- Asterin Blackbeak is wanted for murder – Not surprised! Still like her though.
- Five year old Dorian would want 30 year old Dorian to be an “epic dragon-slayer” – He’s still very much on time for that! How awesome is Dorian, right?
- 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” – Ok, steamytimes Sarah?! Who exactly will Aelin be having steamy times with?
- Rowan’s cadre may “purrrrrrrhaps” show up again – YAY!!! I want to know all of them better.
- On whether Aelin’s fae-ness makes her immortal: “you’ll find that out in future books” – My bet is on yes! It would make so much sense, and then she could be with Rowan… forever…
- Influence for Rowan: “Rowan just walked into my head one day, and that was that” – Thank you for that, now he has walked into my head and he doesn’t want to leave!
- 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 – by Asterin?! I’m still shipping it.
- Yrene will be returning in future ToG books
- Celaena’s weapon of choice = daggers
- Fleetfoot is 100% confirmed to survive the series – Thank goodness for that!
- Nox will return (as of right now ) but not is QoS
- “Nox has been off on some VERY fun adventures since TOG” – I’m strangely curious about this.
- 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) – yep, can totally see that!
- 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”! – Duh in deed!
- 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” – Sorry people, no Sam coming back from the dead!
- Chaol had “a few” love interests before Celaena – Strangely, I would like to hear more about them.
- 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 – I bet Celaena’s opinion is that it’s Chaol, given that she saw them and all… in my head, it’s Rowan, or Aedion…
- SJM knows who Celaena is going to end up with – Can she tells us before 2017?!
A Court of Thorns and Roses
- Lots of romance and some sexytimes – YES! I need more Tamlin/Feyre 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 – He so deserves it. My baby deserves all good things, he has been through enough.
- 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” – I can totally see this, because they have kind of a similar sense of humour.
- 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 – She would, and I would love to read about that. Is there some fanfiction anywhere about this?
- Favorite villain to write = Manon’s grandmother
- SJM’s advice to surviving SJM’s endings: “invest in tissues. and chocolate” – Buying chocolate on the next trip to the supermarket.
- 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) – And he would pick some classy pick up lines from them, no doubt.
- “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 = Goodreads
- Rhys’ theme song = “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred – LOL!
- 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) – Never a doubt in my mind about that.
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” – Yes Please! More Hot Men coming!
- 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” – is she watching too much Supernatural?
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
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