Jacob Weisman is the editor and publisher of Tachyon Publications, which he founded in 1995. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, The Cooper Point Journal, and in the college textbook, Sport in Contemporary Society, edited by D. Stanley Eitzen. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his work at Tachyon. Jacob is rumored to be hard at work on his first novel.

Jill Roberts has been Tachyon's managing editor since 2002. A non-linear thinker, she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Kinesiology, uniquely qualifying her to run a genre publishing company. Her interests include feminist science fiction, rock climbing, and unreasonably high standards. Jill is currently editing her first novel, but please don't ask her about it until it's perfect.

Rina Weisman's invaluable though often unsolicited help has truly helped Tachyon Publications grow. Rina spends her spare time reading books borrowed from Jacob, and has coined the verb "Brodarting." She knows how to make a clamshell box, measure footcandles, prefers the original Star Trek, and has been known to hum "Thus Spake Zarathrustra" when she thinks no one is listening. She runs the popular SF in SF reading series and movie nights, and she is otherwise unsuited for a normal, 9-5 life. Rina is at work on proofreading everyone's first novel.

Bernie Goodman is in charge of long-range planning at Tachyon. Insanity and a belief that he knows the future far better than the rest of us has convinced him that he alone knows what's best for Tachyon Publications. Is he a delusional time traveller or merely crazy? Time will tell. There are rumors that his first novel was published in 1935, over thirty years before his birth, in a private edition limited to eight handbound copies. No known copies have yet been found.

Elizabeth Story is Tachyon's associate editor. She began as an intern for Tachyon in September of 2009. Since that time Elizabeth has designed press kits, postcards, and Tachyon's catalog, as well as staffing Tachyon's book tables. She graduated with honors from the Creative Writing department at UC Santa Cruz. Her past work experience includes creating motivational posters, newsletters, and comic strips for a children's tutoring center, editing a campus literary magazine, and assisting in a perfumery. Elizabeth locked her first novel in a drawer because it tried to bite her. (self portrait at left)

Charlene Brusso, Tachyon's tireless publicist, lives in Pepperell, Massachusetts with her husband Mark Bissell, their son Nick, and an Australian Shepherd, Roo. Her duties include scientific fact-checking and representing Tachyon Publications to the world and beyond. She won the Hugo Award for Creative Parenting at the Toronto WorldCon in 2003. She is hard at work on her second novel.

James DeMaiolo has worked in the book business for the last thirty years. He brings his extensive experience in sales, marketing, and publicity to Tachyon as a consultant. Jim has been a retail bookseller, a book buyer for Barnes and Noble, and an associate editor. He has worked with Simon and Schuster and Henry Holt, and as a freelancer for publishers such as Berkeley, Tor, and Applause Books. Unlike the rest of us, Jim is a published playwright and has recently edited his first book, a collection of essays on the Federal Theatre Project and a Living Newspaper scenario, The Thrill of Finding Money.

Clyde fills the most important role at Tachyon Publications: reminding us of the foolishness of our own vanity. We're not sure if Clyde has begun work yet on his first novel, but he did receive honorable mention in The Writers of the Future contest, and has been repeatedly spotted walking purposefully on the keyboards at the Tachyon home offices.

Koufax was the official Tachyon Publications security system. A tad overprotective, Koufax was known to accost the postman who brought by any unsolicited manuscripts. Koufax had completed working on his first novel and was weighing several offers from major publishing houses. He passed away after a long, wonderful life. We miss him.