The paperback of Brisingr (just released yesterday, April 13th) is reported to include an excerpt from Book IV of the Inheritance Cycle. The chapter (titled King Cat) is the fourth in the book.

Shur'tugal.com reports that werecats finally come into play in the chapter.

The B.N will update this post with more details as they arrive.

Update: The entire sneak peek is currently available online on Amazon.com. By clicking this link and using Amazon's "Look Inside" feature, you can navigate to page 765 and read it in its entirety. We're unsure whether Random House has done this intentionally or not, but imagine that if this is a slip up, it won't be accessible for very long.

We just got word from our affiliates at El Mundo de Alagaësia about a unique opportunity that's being offered to Chilean fans of the Inheritance Cycle.

Fernanda Córdova, the director of Hogwarts Rancagua, a Harry Potter fan group in Chile, is asking Fantasy fans who live around or near Rancagua or Santiago, Chile to join him at World Book Day (día mundial del libro) in Rancagua.

If you're interested, you can contact Hogwarts Rancagua for more details here at this email address: allegra38 [at] hotmail.com.

This is some rather late and ongoing news, but Inheritance fansite, Shur'tugal.com, has been conducting Question and Answer sessions with Christopher Paolini throughout the last few months--the most recent was only last month!

The question and answer sessions will be every month until the release of Book IV. Shur'tugal is taking your questions every month, so if you have time, drop by their site and submit your own.

Be sure to check out all five of their Q&A sessions at their website!

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Cristopher Paolini has announced that he will be releasing two books and no neither of them is the fourth in the cycle but should be loved by Inheritance fans. The first book announced is "Brisingr: Deluxe Edition".
This book is exactly the same as Brisingr itself but will contain:

• Two never before seen scenes that were taken out of the released editions.
• An exclusive, full-color foldout poster of the Lethrblaka by John Jude Palencar.
• Never-before-seen art by Christopher Paolini.
• A guide to dwarf runes, written by Christopher Paolini.
• The book cover and book spine will contain areas of golden foil.