No, the punt is not going to Stockton.
Clangers. Some of my printed errors.
One problem with publishing books is that your errors stay around a long time. You can make a mistake on radio and with luck it's gone and forgotten in a day or two. Even a newspaper isn't so bad: an error will plague you for a week or so and then - unless you are being sued over it - the pain goes away. Books are different. They have a long shelf-life (boom boom!) and so when you make mistakes in books they hang around for ages. And publishing corrections is pretty difficult. You can fix…