Entangled Publishing, the publisher of Rebecca Yarros‘ hit romantasy novel “Fourth Wing,” is issuing calm before the storm on the release date of Yarros’ latest book by telling readers it’s addressed the misprint issues that affected sequel “Iron Flame.”
“Onyx Storm,” the third book in Yarros’ “Empyrean” series following dragon-rider and war-college student Violet, hits shelves Tuesday with a two-million-copy first print run of its “deluxe edition” and more than one million pre-orders across print, digital and audiobook formats.
Anticipation for the book release has been high (stoked by the “Fourth Wing” TV series in development at Amazon) and so have fans’ fears that the misprint issues that plagued “Iron Flame’s” release would affect “Onyx Storm” as well. According to several videos posted on TikTok in November 2023 amid the “Fourth Wing” sequel’s launch, customers found damaged and bleeding sprayed book edges, typos, missing pages, and upside-down pages and endpapers in certain copies of “Iron Flame.” Entangled took action at that time to refund books and correct the issue, and says it has learned from that experience ahead of “Onyx Storm.”
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“We are incredibly proud of the beautiful deluxe editions of ‘Onyx Storm,’” Entangled Publishing vice president of operations Stacy Abrams said. “Our Art and Design team is one of the best in the business, and really outdid themselves. We also took extra care to learn from our experiences and reader feedback to ensure these books are as pristine and gorgeous in fans’ hands as they were in our imaginations. In order to facilitate that, Entangled has developed deeper relationships with our printing partners and secured the special equipment needed to do these designs justice – plus we made the extra investment to digitally print the fabulous edges for the most crisp, incredible look mass production can allow. We also worked closely with our distributor and retail partners to be as prepared as possible to handle over two million copies.”
Per Entangled, “The deluxe has gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled dragons, reminiscent of the dragon-stenciled edges on the first print run of ‘Fourth Wing’ that flew off the shelves and remain a favorite of fans who treasure these editions as collectibles.”
Entangled art director Bree Archer said: “Readers’ happiness is always our goal and we want the outside package to be just as memorable as the spellbinding story inside.”
However, “since misprints are inevitable with any print run,” Entangled says it “has held back a small overprint to support as many customer exchanges as possible, should a customer be less than satisfied with the quality of the printing on their book.”
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