My paper is highlighted in the 'Annotated Table of Contents' section. Hmm, must not have been written too badly, after all.

Dear Dr. Evil,

Please allow me to introduce myself - I am the Associate Reviews Editor of the journal X (that my boss was sure my paper had NO chance of getting accepted to), who prepares the In this Issue page of the journal. This page features 5 or 6 papers from each issue, and its aim is to highlight and unpackage the findings of each selected paper to make them accessible to our readers from across the different disciplines of the blah blah biology community. The In this Issue page is also sent out to other journals and press organizations to alert them to our upcoming content.

My reason for writing is that your recently accepted paper has just been selected to feature on the In this Issue page of Issue XYZ. As such, I wonder if you could read the attached Word document of the piece I have written on your paper and let me know by return if it is scientifically accurate, and if it gets across the essence and key findings of your paper.

Please note that it will only be possible to make small and essential changes to the text as these pieces are written to a strict format and word count. I also need your feedback as quickly as possible as this issue is about to go to press (within the next 24 hours would be great).

With thanks and best wishes,
Associate Editor Urkel