The Shur'tugal team has made it back to our respective homes safely, and we are beginning to wind down. It was an amazing experience, that we have documented fairly well. But we assume you are all wondering about when we will update the site.... Continue reading...
Each day during our Comic-Con coverage (starting July 22nd and running through the 25th), we released a “word” on the website. For everyone who visited the site each day in order to find the word, we've opened up the contest entry form to allow you to enter for your chance to win one of three (3) prize packages!
More details on the contests of the prize packages including over eight books from five authors, all autographed - including at least book one from Christopher Paolini himself - promotional DVDs, t-shirts, signed photos, and more! Continue reading...
Comic-Con International 2010 has been a busy and exciting time here at Shur'tugal. It has been so busy that many visitors may not be able to keep up with all of the information streaming out of San Diego. We've put together all of the Twitter updates from the convention to make it easy for everyone to find without having to scroll through tons of updates.
Check after the break for the full time line of events so far! Continue reading...
With us being stuck at Comic-Con for the next few days and busier than ever, it's tough to share the story of "The Inheritance Almanac". However, Shawn Speakman, webmaster for Terry Brooks (and other authors) and blogger on Suvudu.com made a great blog post about The Inheritance Almanac and some of how it came to be. It's a fun read -- we definitely recommend it! Additionally, Suvudu is doing some great exclusive coverage at Comic-Con; check it out! Read more exclusive details about The Inheritance Almanac over at Suvudu!
I've been keeping this project a secret for nearly two years now and I'm truly excited and honored to be able to finally share it with you all!
The book is being published by Random House, the same publisher as the Inheritance cycle, whom I had the incredible privilege of working with during the creation of the book. I'll have much more to say about the project in the coming days, but for now, enjoy the cover! The book is set to release on October 26th, 2010.
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We’re excited to announce that we’re running a huge give-away competition alongside our Comic-Con International coverage in hopes of offering fans access to some amazing gift packages! Each day during our Comic-Con coverage (starting July 22nd and running through the 25th), we will release a “word” on the website. The word will be unique each day and will only be available on that day. Fans will be asked to collect each of the four words and at the end of our Comic-Con coverage, will be offered a form to submit all four words and their email address for a chance at winning one of three awesome prize packs.
More details on the contest are available after the break, including a full list of the prize pack contents. Suffice to say, the contents will be awesome (over eight books from five different authors, all autographed –including at least one book from Christopher Paolini himself – promotional DVDs, t-shirts, signed photos, and more!). Continue reading...
We announced late last week that we will be attending this year's Comic Con International in San Diego alongside Christopher Paolini and a host of Random House's talented young adult authors. While we do have a list in progress of events to cover during Comic Con, we're looking to you guys -- our visitors -- to help us fill in the rest of the space. Continue reading this news post for an early look at where we'll be headed during Comic Con and to contribute your own schedule to our list. Tell us what you want us to cover and we'll try our best!Continue reading...
This post was originally a call to action to support the Harry Potter Alliance, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to healing the world by preventing genocide, illiteracy, and violations of civil rights. Thanks to the tens of thousands of fans around the world who rallied to the HP Alliance's support, they are now the winners of $250,000 to help further their efforts.
However, the HP Alliance wasn't the only brilliant organization or charity competing for the grand prize. Dozens of groups from around the world competed to place in the top five; most notable was the Kristin Brooks Hope Center, an organization which operates the Hopeline, a national free, confidential, and twenty-four-hour hotline for suicide prevention. Please continue reading this news post to learn more about these amazing organizations and what you can do to support them. Continue reading...
We’re thrilled to announce that Shur’tugal will be continuing its tradition of attending and covering the annual San Diego Comic Con international this July! Random House, publisher of the Inheritance cycle here in the United States, has stepped in as a sponsor of our coverage of the event, allowing us to conduct much of the coverage you’ll see here on the website.
This year’s 41st Comic Con International is going to be bigger and better than ever and we plan to make sure that our coverage of the event is the best we’ve ever done. Most importantly, Christopher Paolini will be attending this year’s convention, sitting on a panel, doing a book signing, and joining Shur’tugal for a two part interview (representing June and July’s monthly Q&A series interviews). We will have coverage of all of his events, from the panel to the signings and anything more!
We will also be catching up with Michael Scott, bestselling author of the Immortal Secrets of Nicholas Flamel series, Esther Friesner, author of the Nobody’s series, Lauren Kate, author of the Fallen series, and more coverage yet to be announced! In addition, we are extremely excited to finally lift the veil on the secret project and announcement we’ve been biting our tongues on. This will happen during the convention!
We will have a complete list of our event coverage, including schedules, author information, book information, and more available on the website prior to the beginning of Comic Con. The convention runs from July 22nd to the 25th and Shur’tugal will be in San Diego from the 21st through the 26th to cover every event we can!
After a plague of issues preventing the timely release of our first "return" episode, we are excited to announce that Shurtycast 2.0 is here! Our first episode, recorded two months ago immediately following the Great Shur'tugal Outage of 2010 (when we were down for a week due to major server issues), tackles many subjects intended on bringing old and new Shurtycast fans to the realm of Shurtycast, the official Inheritance cycle podcast of Shurtugal.com!
What is Shurtycast? Shurtycast is a recorded Inheritance cycle podcast (or internet talk show) which tackles the latest news, developments, discussions, inside scoops, and interviews of the Inheritance world! Give Shurtycast episode 201 a listen in our podcast player below! We'll have options for subscribing to the podcast on iTunes and other podcast services in the near future!
Continue reading for a full show summary, more information on exactly what Shurtycast is, our hosts, and more! We'd also love to hear your feedback in the comments! Continue reading...
With the sixth Q&A with Christopher Paolini now behind us (you can still check it out!), it's time to open up questions for Q&A number seven! Not familiar with our serious of fan-driven question and answer sessions with Christopher? Our favorite author has kindly agreed to answer fan-submitted questions in a series of interviews until the release of Book 4. (Check out our past Q&A interviews with Christopher here)! Questions are submitted by Shurtugal.com visitors and the best of the best are chosen by Shur'tugal staff for Christopher to answer. Keep reading to submit your questions! Continue reading...
It has been a long time since Christopher has sent his fans a newsletter, but we can all agree that it was worth the wait. Are you wondering about his progress on Book IV? Anxious to know what the series' artist, John Jude Palencar, is working on? Or you just want to know a tiny bit of what Christopher is writing now? Then check out the newest newsletter after the jump! Continue reading...
Our sixth Q&A with Christopher Paolini, in which we task Christopher with answering questions submitted by Shurtugal.com visitors, is now available online! The newest Q&A is by far one of the best so far! Check out Christopher Paolini's official answers on a variety of topics, including elven houses, dragon hatchlings and the resulting complications, immortality of Dragon Riders, magical potency of the people in Alagaesia, Shades, Urgal army figures, Brom, Murtagh, dwarf castles, and more! The interview's conclusion even includes content deleted from Brisingr during the editing process. Don't miss out on this awesome interview session with Christopher!
Shurtugal.com is now in search of interested fans looking to hone their theorizing and writing skills to write theory editorials and articles for the front page of Shur'tugal! We've set up a page explaining exactly what we're looking for, which is unique and rich theory articles written by our visitors exploring some of your own favorite theories. Members of the website who have their theory articles published will be rewarded for their work with some signed pictures, drawings, and even personalized signed books! So go ahead, check the page out -- we know you have some awesome theories to share and we'd love to hear them!
Additional site updates: We're sure you're curious about the Q&A that's due to be published any day now. The questions were great and we're looking forward to Christopher's answers! However, we cannot post the interview until we've received it. Hang tight, we expect to have it soon... and the minute we have it, we'll share it! Also, check back soon for the first episode of Shurtycast 2.0!
Round five is your last chance to win autographed copies of Eragon's Guide to Alagaesia and the Brisingr Deluxe Edition, sponsored by Random House! The books will be given away via random drawing. To be eligible to win, entrants must live within the United States and Canada. Be sure to check Shur'tugal over the next month for a chance to copies of the Eldest audio books signed by Gerard Doyle (narrator) and Christopher Paolini, as well as signed copies of The Alchemyst by Michael Scott and signed paperback box sets of Eldon Thompson's The Legend of Asahiel trilogy! In other words, we've got a lot of great free (and autographed!) books to give away to you guys! To learn more on how to enter this round of the giveaways, continue reading! Continue reading...
