I’ve been working hard on this site lately and my book dedicated to the 1979 Kenner ALIEN toy has been in the publisher’s hands for a few weeks now. Soon we publish.

Importantly, pre-orders will become available soon. I am hoping this will happen sometime next week. I wanted to have them ready by now, but a couple of details still need to be finalised. Nothing crippling or debilitating; just minor stuff that has resulted in a delay. It’s no real problem and I learned a long time ago this Project needs to be Goal oriented rather than Deadline driven. To this end, we are almost ready to announce pre-orders. Nonetheless, a few changes around the site have been made during the past month or so.

It’s been tidied up a lot. Much of the front page has had graphical upgrades and there are now 12 random header images for you to click on and play with. Have fun with those. All the side bar graphics have also been updated. Many of the pages linked from the drop down menu have also been significantly improved with updated information. Most importantly, there’s a placeholder image on the top right of the sidebar that will become the button to link to the pre-order page for the book. It only needs to be replaced and linked now as the final graphic for this button is just waiting to be posted. Yeah. We are now that close to going live with pre-orders.

Once the pre-orders do go live, you’ll see the book is being offered at a discount price to pre-order customers. This reduced price pre-order incentive will be live until I have stock in hand, which will take about a month. Then the full price will be instated permanently. I have a good idea what the final pricing will be but I am just waiting on confirmation from the publisher. At this stage we are looking good and steady.

I’ve also had the site’s security updated. It is now fully SSL compliant making it truly https secure for handling transactions via Paypal. This is a good thing and a long time coming. What else is there? A few tidy up tasks and preparations on the back end here and there and really, we’re almost ready. That’s it. We are almost good to go.

Thank you for sticking around and going the distance with me on this amazing Project. I didn’t expect it to take four and a half years to complete. All the same, we are now on the threshold of achieving our goal; and it feels good, too.

-Windebieste.