Excuse me, but do you seriously think we are ignorant of the differences? We have curators from multiple places in the world and many of us are well-read with international fiction and accustomed to the differences. We don't rule something out because they aren't American. Once you have a big name in the mainstream world, you can get away with a lot of things. But to get published initially and develop that big name, you have to put out pretty clean work. An author who isn't willing to work to improve these things is never going to make it anywhere. And the SFT has been known to set its curators to work helping a really promising author do final polishing on a piece when the author was interested in doing so. Spending some time in the fiction-workshop on PALNet is highly recommended. A peer critique system is extremely effective at working out the majority of the bugs, if an author is, again, WILLING to do the work.