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IF you're interested:
In US-English, the comma goes inside the quote, even if the original quoted matter did not have the comma; in Brit/Can English, it goes outside.
Interrupted speech is properly indicated by an EMdash, not an ENdash (US convention), and
There should not be spaces in compound dashed phrases, in print layout. In eBooks, in which we have hyphenation issues (as in, none), it's a matter of personal choice/style, to make the "rivers of white" look less onerous; I usually pick the word after the emdash, so that the dash shows up at the end of the line and not the beginning, if it breaks near the end of a line.
;-)
HTH,
Hitch
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