When and how did Tattersall publishing get started?
Tattersall Publishing was started in 1994 as a self-publishing venture by Crystal Wood. Having had much positive feedback from but little success with major publishers in placing her first novel, Cut Him Out in Little Stars, she determined to take the novel directly into the science fiction market by way of science fiction conventions. “I would have been happy to sell a hundred copies,” she says. But some very favorable reviews in respected trade and genre publications such as Publishers Weekly and Starlog launched the humorous SF novel into the national market. In 1998, Cut Him Out in Little Stars went into a second printing, and it is still a popular seller on the Tattersall Publishing trade backlist. Following the success of Cut Him Out in Little Stars, Crystal decided to expand the scope of Tattersall Publishing and published the first novel by Gerald Eugene Nathan Stone, God’s Front Porch. This heartwarming and funny short novel based on the author’s own experiences as a pastor in
