@cstross I remember stumbling over one mistaken non-Americanism for an American character. Americans don't call unlisted numbers "ex-directory". I actually backed up and reread some in case I had missed Mike Fleming being a Brit.

@cstross I recently read an ebook which had obviously been automatically 'Americanized', leading to numerous fight scenes which left me very confused, until I figured out that all the mentions of being injured by a trunk actually should have been 'boot'!

@cstross that American publishers fuck with non-American slang & idiom annoys the piss out of me, so please keep refusing to compromise on that.

@cstross Joke's on you: A ton of Americans (I am tempted to say a majority but I don't have numbers) are delighted, charmed, or downright obsessed with anything and everything from Great Britain, the UK, the Commonwealth, etc. UK and related fiction is huge, on TV and in print. The royalty regularly become fixations for millions of people, and the dialogue? Come on. Americans love that shit. Can't get enough. It's almost a cheat code thing to put someone with a British (or Irish or Scottish or Welsh) accent/dialect into a US movie or TV show. If it's a posh accent, many Americans are charmed. In fact, posh British accents are more or less shorthand for "sophisticated" or even "intelligent." If it's Irish, Scottish, or Welsh, then the reaction is "Aw, the adorable people of the Old Country with their twee curmudgeonly ways." If it's English but not posh (e.g., Cockney or a hundred other variants), then the reaction is "ooh, authentic! Very cool!"

So keep up the good work. Keep that dialogue pumping into our veins.