I had a lot of fairly blunt feedback from a small percentage of my American readers about the use of English spelling and idioms in Unwilling From Earth, so I wrote Hunter, Warrior, Commander with American English spelling and tried to avoid all English specific idioms – I made up a lot of alien idioms instead. Having discussed this with many American and English authors whose readership is also mainly American, the consensus was that the vast majority of American readers are quite happy with reading English spelling and idioms, so it seems I wasted my time. (Sigh.)

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