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Tabby House was founded in 1990 by Jim and Linda Salisbury to publish Linda's second book, Read My Lips: No New Pets! The production brought an honorable mention in the National Association of Independent Publishers new-book contest that year, and requests for help from other self-publishers. Our packaging business has grown in scope and stature ever since. Tabby House has relocated to Mineral, Virginia, a small community in the central part of the state. Mineral is about an hour from Fredericksburg, Charlottesville and Richmond. We will be able use our pontoon boat on Lake Anna, where the Blue Ridge Mountains are visible in the distance. Yes, we do have cats. At last count there were six in the house: Troulx Kitten, the porker, who has one extra-long white fang; O.C., the former bully who came in from the woods one night and stayed; George, the churlish one; Lo and Behold, the strange kitty who lives on the refrigerator, and two now-grown-up kittens, Rover and Puff, who mysteriously appeared in our garage one day. We suspect Blackie, a stray who came each morning and evening for food, was their father because he was in the back yard smiling sweetly when we found them. How Did We Get Our Name? How did we get our name? As Jim tells it, "Well, back in 1990 when we were first starting up, Linda and I took a long weekend to visit Savannah, Georgia.