Crystal Wood has worked as a professional graphics artist since high school, which was not, she will readily admit, yesterday. Over the years she has honed her skills by working as a staff layout artist for a newspaper and an advertising agency, as the principal graphics artist for a printing company, and even as publications director for a large metropolitan church. In 1994 she began Tattersall Publishing as an independent small press, a book design outsource, and a general graphic arts provider. In addition to books, Crystal designs and contracts for production for everything from business cards to newsletters, annual reports, catalogs, brochures, newsletters, and even T-shirts and other advertising specialties. (And the occasional website, such as this one.)

Apart from the odd software seminar, Crystal has had no formal training in graphic arts. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees in technical theater and communications, always managing to work her natural ability for designing printwork into those fields.

Crystal is also an editor and the author of three books published by Tattersall Publishing: Outing the Cat Lady: Embracing Your Feline Addiction With Style (forthcoming for Fall 2007), Fool's Joust, and Cut Him Out in Little Stars.

She has been married to George for almost 30 years. They have a daughter and three grandchildren, and an assortment of cats who provide cheap entertainment as well as inspiration for humorous books.

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PROJECT FOR 2008

We will be our own anthology in 2008 as a Writer's League project.  We will go through the the entire process: selection of a theme, assignment of jobs, submissions, acceptance and rejections, editing, cover art selection, formatting, printing, and marketing. The anthology will not have a specific theme.

MEMBER NEWS

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MEMBER'S SHOWCASE

Title:  Dinner's Ready
Author:  Joni Latham

He leaned on his elbow, his eyes following the man into the darkness. "There goes one."

"How can you tell?" The petite brunette at the other patrons in the restaurant.

"I can smell a vampire a mile away."

"Oh. Really?" She flashed him a toothy grin as the other patrons circled around. "Dinner's served."

To submit a member poem (under 125 lines), short story (under words 1500 words), or essay (under words 1500 words), send to joni1957@verizon.net .