{"id":3706,"date":"2025-08-22T03:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/?page_id=3706"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:31:42","slug":"bio-rick-klaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/bio-rick-klaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio Rick Klaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p><strong>Rick Klaw will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2025<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond his current tenure as the Publicity Manager and occasional editor for Tachyon<br>Publications, the so-called optimistic curmudgeon Richard \u201cRick\u201d Klaw has edited numerous publications, most notably the anthologies <em>The Apes of Wrath, Rayguns Over Texas<\/em>, and the groundbreaking <em>Weird Business<\/em> (with Joe R. Lansdale). For Tachyon, he\u2019s responsible for the contingent of Texas authors including Lansdale (most recently <em>The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale<\/em>), Josh Rountree&#8217;s novels <em>The Legend of Charlie Fish<\/em> and <em>The Unkillable Frank Lightning<\/em>, and David Liss\u2019s forthcoming novel <em>The Death and Birth of Iliana Marek<\/em>. In an unexpected move, Klaw also edited the non Texas author Meg Elison\u2019s forthcoming novella <em>Foundling Fathers<\/em>. In the 90s the Klaw-fronted Mojo Press predicated several of the 21st<br>century publishing models. As a writer, he has provided countless reviews, essays, and fiction for a variety of publications including <em>The Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving Pictures Magazine, San Antonio Current, Kirkus Reviews, SF Signal, Geek Dad, SF Site, RevolutionSF, Electric<br>Velocipede<\/em>, and <em>The San Antonio Business Journal<\/em>. Many of his writings were collected in <em>Geek Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century<\/em> (MonkeyBrain).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-abae1e99 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-1024x1024.avif ,https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif 780w, https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-1024x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-3992\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" title=\"Klaw-books\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Klaw will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2025! Beyond his current tenure as the Publicity Manager and occasional editor for TachyonPublications, the so-called optimistic curmudgeon Richard \u201cRick\u201d 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\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3992,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3706","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif",1080,1080,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-150x150.avif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-300x300.avif",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-768x768.avif",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books-1024x1024.avif",1024,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif",1080,1080,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif",1080,1080,false],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/wp-content\/uploads\/Klaw-books.avif",1080,1080,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d47\/author\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Rick Klaw will be appearing at ArmadilloCon 2025! 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