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An editor once sent me back a note that read something like, “It will be easier on your American readers if you use inches here.”  I read that feedback twice because I respect my editors; thenI  firmly crossed that suggestion off.  Why?  The character speaking was not from the U.S.A.  And outside the U.S.A., whoContinue reading “Why My Characters use Celsius (and other Metric Systems)”