Rick Klaw will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2025!
Beyond his current tenure as the Publicity Manager and occasional editor for Tachyon
Publications, the so-called optimistic curmudgeon Richard “Rick” Klaw has edited numerous publications, most notably the anthologies The Apes of Wrath, Rayguns Over Texas, and the groundbreaking Weird Business (with Joe R. Lansdale). For Tachyon, he’s responsible for the contingent of Texas authors including Lansdale (most recently The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale), Josh Rountree’s novels The Legend of Charlie Fish and The Unkillable Frank Lightning, and David Liss’s forthcoming novel The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek. In an unexpected move, Klaw also edited the non Texas author Meg Elison’s forthcoming novella Foundling Fathers. In the 90s the Klaw-fronted Mojo Press predicated several of the 21st
century publishing models. As a writer, he has provided countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications including The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Kirkus Reviews, SF Signal, Geek Dad, SF Site, RevolutionSF, Electric
Velocipede, and The San Antonio Business Journal. Many of his writings were collected in Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century (MonkeyBrain).
