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Photo: Brandy Whitten

Professional
freelance editor, reviewer, publicist, marketing guru, geek maven,
and optimistic curmudgeon, Richard “Rick” Klaw is the wearer of
many hats.  

For
the past 20
years, Klaw has provided nigh-countless reviews, essays, and fiction
for a variety of publications: The
Austin Chronicle, Blastr, Moving
Pictures Magazine, San
Antonio Current, Geek
Dad, San
Antonio Business Journal, Conversations
With Texas Writers, The Greenwood
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy, SF
Site,
Science
Fiction Weekly, Nova
Express, STEAMPUNK, Electric Velocipede, Cross
Plains Universe, Red Range, and The Steampunk
Bible.
Many of his essays and observations were collected in Geek
Confidential: Echoes from the 21st Century.

Klaw
co-founded the influential Mojo Press, one of the first publishers
dedicated to both graphic novels and prose books for the general
bookstore market, and co-edited (with Joe R. Lansdale) the
groundbreaking original anthology of short fiction in graphic form,
Weird
Business.
He also served as the initial fiction editor for RevolutionSF.

In
2017, Klaw edited the newest volume in Tachyon’s Hap
and Leonard crime
series by Joe R. Lansdale (HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE) and in 2016 he co-edited PIRATE UTOPIA
by Bruce Sterling. He is the editor of the anthologies THE APES OF WRATH and Rayguns
Over Texas.

Art by John Picacio and Dave Dorman

In
addition to other consulting and marketing activities, Klaw currently
manages and develops content for the social media presence of Tachyon
Publications. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, a perpetually confused dog, a pair of adorable, high energy cats, and an impressive collection of books.

Rick
can often be found pontificating on Twitter and at his
award-winning blog The
Geek Curmudgeon.

Tachyon
wishes Rick a very happy birthday (and we thank him for allowing us
to hijack his regularly scheduled social-media domination).

For info on THE APES OF WRATH, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Alex Solis

Design by Elizabeth Story

For more info on PIRATE UTOPIA, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and illustration by John Coulthart

For more info on HAP AND LEONARD: BLOOD AND LEMONADE, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover by Elizabeth Story