sarah j maas the world of throne of glass

Around the time Crown of Midnight was coming out, Sarah realized that the pace of publishing one book a year seemed a little slow for her. They sent Throne of Glass out to publishers, and it sold to Bloomsbury in 2010. When her agent returned from maternity leave, Maas put the project back on the shelf. Sarah wrote A Court of Thorns and Roses in a month and immediately jumped into writing the second book, which became A Court of Mist and Fury. Maas declared, “It actually wound up going away from those things it started off as a retelling of the more original fairy tales, but then moved away. Sarah also sought inspiration in the fairy tale The Beauty and the Beast, in the Norwegian tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon and in the legend of Tam Lin. She got the idea for the series after listening to the song 'The Demon God' from the Princess Mononoke soundtrack. She revealed, 'This was a story where, within a matter of days, I heard Feyre's voice, and I saw so many scenes play out in my head.'

Because they had decided not to send out Throne of Glass to publishers, Maas began to write the first two books in the ACOTAR series. Sarah had the idea for the A Court of Thorns and Roses series in the spring of 2009 while she waited for her literary agent, Tamar Rydzinski, to return from her maternity leave.

– Alexandra Bracken, New York Times bestselling author Ī gorgeously written tale as lush and romantic as it is ferocious. Over the six years it took for her to write the trilogy, Queen of Glass became one of the most popular stories on the site, and in Fall 2008, she took the story offline to try to publish it through traditional means. Maas began writing the Throne of Glass series, then a trilogy called Queen of Glass, when she was only sixteen on a website called. – Tamora Pierce, New York Times bestselling author Celaena is as much an epic hero as Frodo or Jon Snow!

Sarah j maas the world of throne of glass