by Vera H-C Chan You submit three manuscripts to a publishing house. Within a matter of months, the first book in your trilogy becomes an insane international bestseller and makes you the second-best selling author across the globe in 2008 . Movie deals are made, not only in your home country of Norway, but also in Hollywood, where a top-notch director adapts your first book in the series. Tour guides have even made walking tours from key scenes.