C.L.’s answer to “First, I flipping loved The Midnight Bargain!! Ace representation makes my heart do all the dancing…” > Likes and Comments

Hello! In the ad agency business, FPO means For Placement Only. It's often used to indicate that an image or piece of text or logo or other piece of content in an ad is placeholder, that is, being used in that spot until the final item is ready to be added. E.g. you might put a gray box in the place of a product image if the image isn't ready yet but you want to get feedback on the layout of the ad or something.

I suspect the book Alexis has is somehow not the final version. My hardcover version looks fine - the chapter heading text and the watch image. HOWEVER, I just checked amazon and the kindle edition has exactly what Alexis describes - a big FPO on top of a pocket watch image, without any chapter numbers.

oh wow, that's *really weird!* let me just drop a note to some people about that....thank you for telling me!