Adapt to American spelling?

by Dan Forrester
20th January 2015

Would you adapt the spelling in your short story for a submission to an American publication? My gut feeling is that it's a little contrived, yet it should be tailored to their audience.

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Depends on the publication: check out their guidelines.

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Lorraine Swoboda
21/01/2015

I wouldn't, mainly because it's only a small group of words that are different and it's mainly one letter change, like we would write mum while they write mom. Keeping it how you would spell the word show them that they are dealing with someone outside of the US.

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