A copyeditor keeps a style sheet while reading: serial comma or not, US or UK spelling, how dialogue is punctuated, which words stay capitalized. Your book has one: the Style sheet link beside Factory → on your books page, and at the top of the transmittal.
It is not the same as paragraph styles (Heading 1, Normal). Those shape how the book looks. The style sheet shapes how it reads.
It starts from ours
Your sheet begins as a copy of the studio's house sheet, and every rule starts accepted. If our defaults suit the book, do nothing.
First, say whether the book is Fiction or Nonfiction (or Not yet). That adds the rules for that kind of book; nothing you've already decided is lost.
What you can do
For each rule:
- Reject it. It's marked Not for this book; Put back undoes that.
- Edit the wording. It's marked Edited by you.
- Restore ours to go back to the studio's wording.
- Add note for your copyeditor.
To add your own, choose + Add a rule under the title. It goes in Our additions unless you pick another section; each section also has its own + Add a rule to … at the end. Your own rules are marked Your rule and can be deleted. Accept all puts back any rules you rejected and keeps your edits and additions.
Changes save as you make them. Download as Markdown gives you the whole sheet as a file for your copyeditor.