Fender Tucker
Encyclopedia
Fender Tucker has been a disk magazine
editor and publisher, and a self-publisher of books.
In 1986 he sold a couple of his home-programmed games to the Loadstar
disk magazine for the Commodore 64
computer, and in September 1987, applied for and got the job of Managing Editor of the magazine. There, he set a tone for the publication which gave it a "cult following" which lasted even after the Commodore 64 was considered "obsolete" by most. By the mid-1990s, its publisher, Softdisk
, was no longer interested in continuing its publication, so Tucker, along with his wife Judi Mangham (a co-founder of Softdisk) split Loadstar off as a separate company, J&F Publishing. In 2001, the editorship was passed to Dave and Sheri Moorman.
Tucker operates an independent publisher named Ramble House
which republishes "forgotten" works, such as the novels of Harry Stephen Keeler
, a wacky mystery writer from the 1930s and 1940s.
Disk magazine
A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag, is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read using computers. These had some popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as periodicals distributed on floppy disk, hence their name...
editor and publisher, and a self-publisher of books.
In 1986 he sold a couple of his home-programmed games to the Loadstar
Loadstar
Loadstar was a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published starting in 1984. It derived its name from the command commonly used to execute commercial software from a Commodore 1541 disk: LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar"....
disk magazine for the Commodore 64
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
computer, and in September 1987, applied for and got the job of Managing Editor of the magazine. There, he set a tone for the publication which gave it a "cult following" which lasted even after the Commodore 64 was considered "obsolete" by most. By the mid-1990s, its publisher, Softdisk
Softdisk
Softdisk is a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines...
, was no longer interested in continuing its publication, so Tucker, along with his wife Judi Mangham (a co-founder of Softdisk) split Loadstar off as a separate company, J&F Publishing. In 2001, the editorship was passed to Dave and Sheri Moorman.
Tucker operates an independent publisher named Ramble House
Ramble House
Ramble House is a small American publisher founded by Fender Tucker and Jim Weiler in 1999. The press specializes in reprints of long-neglected and rare crime fiction novels, modern crime fiction and scholarly works by noted authors on the crime fiction genre, and a host of other diverse books of a...
which republishes "forgotten" works, such as the novels of Harry Stephen Keeler
Harry Stephen Keeler
Harry Stephen Keeler was a prolific but little-known American author.- Biography :Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it...
, a wacky mystery writer from the 1930s and 1940s.