United States

An American English listing means the work is done in American English, for a book that will be read by an American audience. That covers US spelling, the serial comma, punctuation inside quotation marks, and the hyphenation conventions that American publishers apply to compound modifiers.

It suits authors publishing into the US market, whether through a trade house or on their own, and anyone whose manuscript mixes British and American usage and needs one consistent version.

1106 Design, Beth Jusino and Book Butchers all work in American English, which is the point of the tag. A manuscript written for a US readership carries spellings, punctuation inside quotation marks, and hyphenation that a proofreader in the United Kingdom, Australia or Canada would handle differently, even when the grammar is identical. Beth Jusino works from the Pacific Northwest and takes on nonfiction, memoir and self-published projects, reading for consistency of terminology as much as for typos. 1106 Design pairs proofreading with book design, so a proofread manuscript moves into layout without a second handoff. Book Butchers proofread fiction, where dialogue tags, dialect spellings and chapter breaks decide how the pages read. When you need book proofreading in the USA, the distinction that matters is not the flag on the invoice but which version of English your reader expects to see on the page.