Capitalisation, Commas and Character Eye Colours

I’ve just finished the copyedit for THE MADEMOISELLE ALLIANCE—woo hoo! The copyedit is simultaneously one of the most painful and best parts of the process of getting a book out into the world. It’s where you discover you’ve changed the eye colour of one of your main characters from grey-green to blue halfway through the story, where you have intense debates about the rules of capitalisation in French vs English, because they’re really quite different—and when you’re referring to organisations f...