

Paolini created the cover art for this edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye on the cover. They immediately saw its potential and decided to publish the book through their small, home-based publishing company, Paolini International. After another year of editing, Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript. It was finished a year later, and Paolini began writing the "real" version of the book. After a month of planning out the series, he started writing the draft of Eragon by hand. He began reading everything he could about the "art of writing", and then plotted the whole Inheritance Cycle book series. At the age of 14, as a hobby, he started writing the first novel in a series of four books, but he could not get beyond a few pages because he had "no idea" where he was going. Christopher Paolini started reading fantasy books when he was 10 years old.
