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Ouch! Corrections.
On pages 9 and 10, I incorrectly identify Bernie Webber's friend as Steve Holden. He should be identified as Milton Anderson. Also, on pages 65 and 66 CG36850 should read CG36383 -- the boat manned by Chief Bangs and crew. On the back cover, promotional notes say 30 lives were saved; it should read 32.
My sincere apologies for the errors. Save for the promotional notes, I take full responsibility. The embarrasing explanation is that "Steve Holden" was a "plugged" name I placed in the original query letter and proposal to publishers way back in 2002. The sample chapters, which contained fictitious "plugged" names representing true characters, then served as the basis for my writing in 2008. While it is common to use plugged names in author proposals to publishers, it is truly embarassing that I did not catch the plug when I began writing the piece for real six years later using the electronic files of the chapter proposals written six years earlier.
Because Webber and his buddy were supposedly involved in potentially juvenile delinquent activity, I altered the name in the proposal so that Anderson was not libeled in any way in the proposal. I had not confirmed what the activity was. Ironically, when I began writing anew, I researched what Bernie and Anderson did -- breaking some street lights and rolling about in some hedges -- but completely missed the Steve Holden "placeholder." There is no Steve Holden. The name is a fictiious play on a fictious character. Anderson ran away from Bernie's prep school -- similar to Holden Caulfield of "Catcher in the Rye" fleeing his prep school.
The mistake on the boat number is a blown play on my part. I ought to have caught it in my proofing of the book.
The mistakes do not in any way change what happened in the story. Bernie and his buddie did get in trouble. It was Anderson not "Holden." Chief Bangs and his crew did perform heroic deeds -- but in the CG 36383. The use of Holden instead of Anderson was wholly unintentional and in error.
Again, my apologies to those impacted by the errors and to my readers.
My sincere apologies for the errors. Save for the promotional notes, I take full responsibility. The embarrasing explanation is that "Steve Holden" was a "plugged" name I placed in the original query letter and proposal to publishers way back in 2002. The sample chapters, which contained fictitious "plugged" names representing true characters, then served as the basis for my writing in 2008. While it is common to use plugged names in author proposals to publishers, it is truly embarassing that I did not catch the plug when I began writing the piece for real six years later using the electronic files of the chapter proposals written six years earlier.
Because Webber and his buddy were supposedly involved in potentially juvenile delinquent activity, I altered the name in the proposal so that Anderson was not libeled in any way in the proposal. I had not confirmed what the activity was. Ironically, when I began writing anew, I researched what Bernie and Anderson did -- breaking some street lights and rolling about in some hedges -- but completely missed the Steve Holden "placeholder." There is no Steve Holden. The name is a fictiious play on a fictious character. Anderson ran away from Bernie's prep school -- similar to Holden Caulfield of "Catcher in the Rye" fleeing his prep school.
The mistake on the boat number is a blown play on my part. I ought to have caught it in my proofing of the book.
The mistakes do not in any way change what happened in the story. Bernie and his buddie did get in trouble. It was Anderson not "Holden." Chief Bangs and his crew did perform heroic deeds -- but in the CG 36383. The use of Holden instead of Anderson was wholly unintentional and in error.
Again, my apologies to those impacted by the errors and to my readers.
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