This document arrived in the mail yesterday. It is the final proof copy of HIDEOUS PLASTIC – In stores everyone can hear you scream. This galley proof is for my evaluation and approval and is effectively a test print of the finished publication readers can expect to be receiving soon. At this stage, I anticipate there will be no more corrections or additions to be made and the only remaining action required will be to instruct my publisher to tell the printer to press the button and set the presses into motion. We are now that close to publishing.

Today is April 1st but this is no joke. I am now on the threshold of actually publishing this book dedicated to the 1979 Kenner ALIEN toy. Last year, I ran an April Fool’s Day gag about the book being SOLD OUT. I received enough correspondence from disgruntled fans who thought they’d missed out on purchasing the book for me to be discouraged from duplicating that action. Nope. I am not going to ‘pull your tail’ again this year. I don’t think it would be fair. Besides, we all have enough challenges on our plates simply coping with a world wide threat to everyone’s health without that kind of unnecessary shenanigans. This is the real deal, folks. It’s running later than intended but it’s still making progress, to inch across that finish line and will be heading to you soon.

This book should be available in a few weeks. That is to say, if no more delays impede any further progress. While that is unlikely at this stage, we must yet face uncertain days and months ahead which we all must embrace; and anything conceivable (or otherwise) may yet happen. Stay safe. Stay indoors. Stay healthy.

-Windebieste.