[LM_NET] Off topic - Patricia Cornwell

[Anne Berkey <anneb@AUG.COM>]

Hi all:

Delurking here to ask for a friend:

A friend wrote me and said she felt as though PC was including the 
specific name of a very expensive hotel chain in her writing.  She felt 
as though she was being sold something so she stopped reading the book. 
  As she started another one this weekend  she again was assailed by 
names of designer retail (Ralph Lauren, Hummer, etc) and once again 
felt like she was being sold something.  The question is, does PC (or 
other authors, for that matter) sell space in her novels for 
advertising?  You know, like when you see a Coke in a movie you know 
Coca Cola paid to have it there?

Any ideas?

Anne Berkey
Media Specialist
Gamble Rogers Middle School
St. Augustine, Florida

~a~

"If I can't be a good example then I'll
just have to be a horrible warning."




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