Fender Tucker

Who is Fender Tucker?

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 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.