James Rocks asked Peter Cawdron:

Reading "The Artifact" and, while I get you're US-focused (seems weird for a New Zealander living in Australia; best guess is market size), I don't get why the UK/Welsh main character of the book refers to her parents as "Mom and dad". Native Brits call their mothers "mum", "mother", "mama", "mam", "mammy" but never, to my knowledge, "Mom". You seem to do a massive amount of research for your books so why "Mom"?

Peter Cawdron Hi James. Good question. I lived in the US for about four years as an adult so I have a strong affinity with the Midwest in particular. As for spelling, I refer to my mother as Mum, so I get your point. The challenge is that the book is written using US English, so when Susan talks about colour, the spelling I use is color even though she's from England. Although, personally, I agree with you that Mum is much better. I think I'll quietly update it in the background :)

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