The three-year wait for the final volume of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is nearly over.
Random House announced that the fourth book, Inheritance, will be published on November 8, 2011.
Books already published in the cycle include Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr.
Paolini was a 15-year-old homeschooler when he wrote the first draft of Eragon. He spent a year revising the book, and his family spent a year preparing it for self-publishing in 2001. Alfred A. Knopf, which is part of Random House, then published it in 2003, making it one of the great success stories of the transition from self-publishing to traditional publishing.
My two youngest sons have been eagerly awaiting this book for a long time. Our congratulations to Christopher Paolini for his tremendous success!