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Originally Posted by JSWolf
a joint UK/US version will work fine. Just go with UK spelling/phrases and US formatting/punctuation. To me, that would work no problem.
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That would mostly work. But a few USA rules are odd (always an Oxford comma rather than UK practice of only having it if the list is ambiguous and punctuation rules at closing quotes). Also small caps are in some USA print styles for abbreviations and best only attempted on paper. Unless you are brought up on USA punctuation you might get some of it wrong.
I have a shelf of books on this, but none of it except for one book covers American grammar, punctuation, spelling and style except in passing. I have ebooks too. Much only applies to reports, papers, CVs and journalism. Little is specific to novels and less to dialogue in novels.
Also the biggest hurdle to using USA spelling is also the correct vocabulary.