COSMERE TV-SERIES, 4th WING TV-SERIES UPDATE AND INFO FROM GEORGE RR MARTIN
Book NEWS FEB 2026
This has been a huge month in the fantasy, romantasy- & sci-fi world. The TV rights to Brandon Sandersons Cosmere has been sold to Apple TV, we got news about the Fourth Wing TV-series, new info from George RR Martin about his books and so many book announcements!
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES
Sophia St Germain announced that she will have a new romantasy series with a viking theme released this year. It will include a war academy, brutal trials, enemies to lovers and so much more!
Lauren Palphreymans popular romantasy series is getting it’s final piece this september. The Wolf Queen will finish the trilogy. More details and cover will come later on.
Brandon Sanderson announced that he is 100% finished with the first Ghostblood book (Mistborn Era 3) but he has to go and do som “Hollywood stuff” before he can get to revisions. After that, he will go straight into Ghostbloods 2. And, if you scroll down, you’ll see what the Hollywood stuff was about.
Marie Lu announced a new novel which is a YA fantasy duet called Mortal Things, that will be released in October this year. More News on Red City 2 will be coming later this year according to her Instagram!
A new short novel from the author of Songs of Achilles
Madeleine Miller who wrote the very popular Songs of Achilles is releasing a new short story this september, called Mestra. It’s about a father with a curse of everlasting hunger and his daughter Mestra, who has the gift of metamorphosis – being able to change into whatever she needs to be. But Mestra needs to decide who she is going to save – her father or herself?
A new trilogi about a warrior librarian
Alexa Christo announced that she has been working on her adult debut for over a year, called Cursebreaker. She said it has been the hardest and the most freeing thing she has ever written. It’s an ode to the magic of books and is a dark romance with elements of fae, vampire and fallen angel and a bad-ass FMC who is a warrior librarian. Sounds very promising to me! It’s planned for November 2026.
The last book in A Language of Dragons is on it’s way
S.F Williamsons announced that the last book finishing her trilogy A Language of Dragons will be called A Storm of Swallos, and will be released December 31, 2026. Cover and more details will be relased later!
Author Penn Cole posted on her instagram that the first draft of the book Burn is drafted after 2,5 years. She wrote that she is happy she made it on her own timeline even though she felt guilty for taking so long. There will be a few months before we will get a release date. Burn is the fourth and final book in the Kindred’s Curse Saga and is very awaited from her fans.
L.K Stevens published on her instagram that the second Silvercloak book has been sent in for production, with some last minutes restructures, which sounds very interesting.
Alex Aster announced on her website that she is comissioned by Mattel to write the first ever YA Barbie novel, called Barbie Dreamscape and it’s planned for this summer.
Cover and more information will be released later, but you can pre-order it from Alex’s website now or via Amazon below.
New novel from TJ Klune from a dogs perspective
TJ Klune is publishing a novel called The Stars Look Like Home in 2027, which is a funny and moving adventure about finding one’s place in the universe from the perspective of a dog.
NEW RELEASES
There are also many new titles released the last couple of weeks, where a lot of them has also gotten some really good reviews!
Shen Tao’s debut novel which sounds so good
The third book in the Ashen series
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The Book of Blood and Roses
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We Who Have No Gods
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Queen of Faces
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A short story collection from the worlds of L.J Andrews
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The Knave and the Moon
In the last post with book news we saw a sneek peak of the photoshoot for the cover of Knave and the Moon, and here’s the final result. This stunning sequel to The Knight and the Moth will be released 1 september 2026.
A parade of Horribles
The cover of eight book in the popular Dungeon Crawler Carl series, A Parade of Horribles was released and this is how it looks. It’s planned to be released in May this year!
Ruinous Ends
The sequel to Immortal consequences and the second book in the duet The Souls of Blackwood Academy by I. V Marie’s cover is also here, and this is how it looks.
Immortal rose by Alexandra Bracken
Alexandra Bracken is releasing an adult romtantasy in August this year and this is beautiful the cover.
INDIE PUBLISHED GOING TRAD
Daggermouth’s indie versions are going out of stock
H.M Wolfe’s dystopian romance Daggermouth has been blowing up on Booktok and Bookstagram and is also getting traditionally published.
Daggermouth is the first book in the Python duet and the indie book versions will be out of stock from 31 january. The e-book will still be available though.
Both The Python Duet and her other duet These Crimson Delights will be traditionally published later 2026, by Bramble and TOR Books UK.
New cover for the re-release of The Shadow Prince
Helen Sheuerer’s The Shadow Prince is re-released traditionally in the Commonwealth and UK terretorries and this is the new cover. The indie versions will go out of sale in february.
Kissed by the Gods new cover is here
Kissed by the Gods by Caty Rogan is getting traditionally published and the new cover is here. It will be released 2 june this year!
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MOVIE ADAPTATIONS
The Movie Rights to Brandon Sanderson Cosmere has been sold to Apple TV!
Apple TV has closed an ”unprecedented deal” to the movie rights to Brandon Sandersons popular interconnected universe of books, The Cosmere. Sanderson will have more control over the TV-series than wha’ts usual, which sounds great to me. He will write, produce and consult on the adaptions but will also have final approvals.
The first series being adapted is the Mistborn Series and after that it will be The Stormlight Archive. Stormlight Archive has already producers, Blue Marble, run by former WME agent Theresa Kang, is attached to executive produce it.
Fourth Wing TV-Series Update By Producer Michael B. Jordan
We also got an update about the Fourth Wing TV-series adaption. Michal B. Jordan and his company Outlier is producing it for Prime Video, with Meredith Averill as showrunner.
Michael B. Jordan recently said ”We are making sure that this is going to be a exciting show that delivers on all of the things the fans want and some of the things that they won’t be expecting either,” he told Deadline. “But trust me, I know how beloved this franchise IP is and we’re diligently…We’re in the lab; we’re cooking up. We got it. It’s coming. It’s early stages, but I feel how much people care about this one. It’s not lost on us.”
So that sounds very promising as well.
OTHER NEWS FROM THE BOOK WORLD
George R.R. Martin about writing the last books of A Song of Ice And Fire
In a long interview with The Hollywood reporter, George R.R Martin talked about the HBO-series that has been released from the Game of Thrones-universe and his worries about completing the last books from the A Song of Ice and Fire-series.
He sais that that he has about 1100 pages of manuscript finished, but still don’t know how he could write the same amount for A storm of Swords in one year, when this has taken him over 14 years, and it’s not done yet. He is at the moment working on his old DOS-computer without internet, but there are still a lot of distractions from the tv-shows but also a lot of rewriting and doubt.
When the reporter asks if he would just give up on the book, George says that he would hate that. ”It would feel like a total failure to me. I want to finish”. And that there is no plan to hand over the series to someone else in case something would happen to him. George also describes how he still loves the world of Ice and Fire but feels a bit locked in by the success of it. He finishes the interview with telling the reporter that he is planning on killing a lot more of his characters than the TV-show did, and that he doesn’t see a happy ending for a lot of them, but that remains to be seen.
