"publisher's notes" in novels

[Talia]

So I'm in the middle of reading a Mike Resnick book called "stalking the vampire" when smack in the middle of the page I see this..

(Publisher's note: but a good one. Read about it in Stalking the Unicorn, available from Pyr Books.)

Not a footnote. Just a single sentence, single paragraph entry.

Have to confess i was rather stunned. I have never seen an interjection in fiction like that before.
Anyone else witnessed similar?

The book is otherwise very good. I was just shocked they didnt relegate this message to a footnote as seems to me to be standard practice.

[Sandikal]

Really?  It sounds like a commercial. 

[Ocicat]

Sounds like the sort of thing they used to do in comic books all the time.

"Thor first met the Incredible Hulk in Avengers #1 - on sale NOW!"

[Russell Nash]

There was a story on NPR recently about advertising in novels.  It seems during the 60's or so it wasn't that rare to find a cigarette or alcohol ad in the middle of your novel. 

[Thaurismunths]

There was a story on NPR recently about advertising in novels.  It seems during the 60's or so it wasn't that rare to find a cigarette or alcohol ad in the middle of your novel. 

That's not so different from today where it's quite common to find a TV program shoehorned in between commercials.

[Russell Nash]

There was a story on NPR recently about advertising in novels.  It seems during the 60's or so it wasn't that rare to find a cigarette or alcohol ad in the middle of your novel. 

That's not so different from today where it's quite common to find a TV program shoehorned in between commercials.

I've been finding that to happen less and less.  No more interruptions to my commercial watching.

[Talia]

Just like in the cinema these days, they throw in some trashy "movie" thing after the half hour of commercials. Can't be having that. 

[Darwinist]

Really?  It sounds like a commercial. 

Like a few of my older sci-fi novels with the full color cigarette ad in the middle of the book. 

[wintermute]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

[Russell Nash]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

A little extra work for the air system, but I don't see why you couldn't.  I would prefer you didn't though.  It's as bad as sitting around someone who farts constantly.

[Darwinist]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

On Time Tunnel, the astronauts on the first trip to the moon were pounding butts. 

[stePH]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

On Time Tunnel, the astronauts on the first trip to the moon were pounding butts. 

So?  No reason homosexuals can't go to space. 

[DKT]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make.

Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?

Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.

Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?

Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever device.'

-- From Thank You For Smoking, a very funny movie with Aaron Eckhart.

I know it's not completely relevant to this conversation, but I couldn't help posting it

[stePH]

Jeff Megall: Sony has a futuristic sci-fi movie they're looking to make.

Nick Naylor: Cigarettes in space?

Jeff Megall: It's the final frontier, Nick.

Nick Naylor: But wouldn't they blow up in an all oxygen environment?

Jeff Megall: Probably. But it's an easy fix. One line of dialogue. 'Thank God we invented the... you know, whatever device.'

-- From Thank You For Smoking, a very funny movie with Aaron Eckhart.

I know it's not completely relevant to this conversation, but I couldn't help posting it

The artificial atmosphere in space wouldn't be pure oxygen anyway.  It would be a nitrogen/oxygen mix with a balance approximating what we all breathe every day.

[Russell Nash]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

On Time Tunnel, the astronauts on the first trip to the moon were pounding butts. 

So?  No reason homosexuals can't go to space. 

Some kind of bad pun award should be bashed over your head for this one.

[Thaurismunths]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

On Time Tunnel, the astronauts on the first trip to the moon were pounding butts. 

So?  No reason homosexuals can't go to space. 

Some kind of bad pun award should be bashed over your head for this one.

Where's TAD?

[Bdoomed]

That has to be the worst synergy ever.

There's no way you can smoke in space.

On Time Tunnel, the astronauts on the first trip to the moon were pounding butts. 

So?  No reason homosexuals can't go to space. 

>.< hahaha