{"id":166713,"date":"2025-08-21T19:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/166713\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:32:21","slug":"author-rebecca-yarros-apologizes-to-avs-fans-after-ticket-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/166713\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Rebecca Yarros apologizes to Avs fans after ticket rush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30,000 fans of top-selling Colorado author Rebecca Yarros rushed this week to buy VIP tickets to a themed Colorado Avalanche night in her honor. But so many were shut out that Yarros posted a public apology and vowed to bring it back next year.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/30\/romantasy-rebecca-yarros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Yarros to make rare appearance at Colorado authors\u2019 event<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so sorry that yesterday\u2019s sale for Fourth Wing Night with the Avalanche was so frustrating,\u201d she wrote in a statement, referring to the Aug. 19 sale date. \u201cI know how much time many of you invested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A promotional image for the Colorado Avalanche's Nov. 13 Fourth Wing Night, themed around Colorado author Rebecca Yarros's book &quot;Fourth Wing.&quot; (Ticketmaster)\" width=\"1319\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TDP-Z-Avs-Rebecca-Yarros-Fourth-Wing-Night-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7252647\" \/>A promotional image for the Colorado Avalanche&#8217;s Nov. 13 Fourth Wing Night, themed around Colorado author Rebecca Yarros&#8217;s book &#8220;Fourth Wing.&#8221; (Ticketmaster)<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 13 event at Ball Arena is scheduled to include special jerseys for fans. The jersey features a custom seal that combines the Denver NHL team\u2019s logo with stylized imagery inspired by Yarros\u2019 book cover for \u201cFourth Wing.\u201d A special Avalanche Edition of \u201cFourth Wing,\u201d sporting a maroon cover and the same seal, will also be part of the package, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=748513434463267\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yarros said in an Aug. 18 Facebook video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The VIP package includes a book signing with Yarros, \u201calong with some other fun things,\u201d she said in the video. \u201cAs a Colorado girl, this is really a dream come true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A portion of each package (and her royalties from the Avalanche Edition) will be given to benefit The Ehlers-Danlos Society, which supports people diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes that cause tissue disorders. Yarros herself was diagnosed with hypermobile EDS in her early twenties.<\/p>\n<p>A self-described hockey mom who\u2019s based in Colorado Springs, Yarros has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2023\/11\/01\/rebecca-yarros-iron-flame-fourth-wing-colorado\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spent dozens of months atop New York Times best-sellers lists<\/a> with titles from her Empyrean series, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/02\/16\/book-review-rebecca-yarros-onyx-storm-colorado-author\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cFourth Wing,\u201d<\/a> \u201cOnyx Storm,\u201d and \u201cIron Flame.\u201d As the leading voice in the romantasy (romance + fantasy) literary genre, her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/30\/romantasy-rebecca-yarros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">author events and public speaking engagements<\/a> draw thousands of fans who often line up many hours in advance.<\/p>\n<p>That seemed to be the case before tickets to the Fourth Wing night <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/baileyycurtis\/status\/1957489863831482487\" rel=\"nofollow\">went on sale Aug. 19<\/a> via Ticketmaster. Resale seats are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/colorado-avalanche-vs-buffalo-sabres-denver-colorado-11-13-2025\/event\/1E0062EF9E8A3380\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">currently available<\/a> for prices ranging from $64 to $453.15.<\/p>\n<p>The Nov. 13 game against the Buffalo Sabers has a precedent in Boston, where the Boston Red Sox are planning a Fourth Wing Night on Sept. 3 during a game against the Cleveland Guardians. That event includes a \u201climited-edition Fourth Wing and Red Sox replica flight jacket,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/redsox\/tickets\/promotions\/themes\/fourth-wing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to MLB.com<\/a>, with Yarros in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m always humbled by the enthusiasm of Empyrean readers,\u201d she said in her Colorado Avalanche-related statement, \u201cbut we never expected the interest to be quite so high. \u2026 For those who weren\u2019t able to get one, don\u2019t despair: we will do this again next year with more tickets available!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ball Arena has a seating capacity of 18,007 for Avs games, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballarena.com\/arena-information\/about-ball-arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to owner Kroenke Sports Entertainmen<\/a>t, versus 19,099 for Denver Nuggets basketball games and varying amounts for concerts and other events.<\/p>\n<p>Yarros is also scheduled to make a public appearance on Sept. 6 in Denver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2025\/07\/30\/romantasy-rebecca-yarros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when she is inducted into the Colorado Authors\u2019 Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.denverpost.com\/dp\/preference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, In The Know, to get entertainment news sent straight to your inbox.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM MDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 30,000 fans of top-selling Colorado author Rebecca Yarros rushed this week to buy VIP tickets to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1466,28905,7708,192,144,4931,5277,1928,5,1180,560,40,4,43,28637,2676,3735],"class_list":{"0":"post-166713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-ball-arena","10":"tag-book","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-colorado","13":"tag-colorado-avalanche","14":"tag-colorado-news","15":"tag-coloradoavalanche","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-latest-headlines","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-the-know","24":"tag-things-to-do","25":"tag-ticketmaster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115068426485449024","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}