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'Expanding the Hyphen' in 'War by Candlelight'

By Martha Woodroof

Published June 12, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

Martha Woodroof

Stories From This Author

First Novels: The Weird, Thrilling Trip Through A Very Narrow Door

Martha Woodroof

Martha Woodroof talks to first novelists including Chad Harbach (The Art Of Fielding) about how it feels to gut out the unlikely path that takes a book from idea to publication.
Two First Novels, 10 Years In The Making

Martha Woodroof

Fiction writing isn't for the faint of heart; it promises years of obscurity, little money, and no guarantee that anyone will ever read your work. Yet authors keep at it -- WMRA's Martha Woodroof caught up with two first-time novelists, Jessica Francis Kane and Susanna Daniel, to find out what it takes.
The Making Of A Posthumous Best-Seller

Martha Woodroof

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.