Eldest’s Turn Today is the release of summer’s second big fantasy novel, Christopher Paolini’s ELDEST, and a number of the nation’s papers take note and offer short author interviews. Originally set for a 1 million copy release, the initial run has been increased to 1.3 million and the book tops the Amazon list this morning. Paolini tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the depth of his enterprise struck him only recently when playing an online game: “One of the players was named Eragon. Much to my horror, he was actually pretty good and I found a message flashed across the screen — […]
