Jacob Weisman is the editor and publisher of Tachyon Publications. 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 in 1999 for his work at Tachyon. His bold style of leadership is, well, bold (but at least he doesn't lack conviction). Jacob is also quite possibly the best rotisserie sports manager ever. He is hard at work on his first novel.

Jill Roberts is Tachyon's erstwhile managing editor. She has an astonishing facility for manipulating time, space and subatomic particles, and is a regular lecturer at the Lawrence Livermore labs, where she is known for superior working knowledge and snazzy outfits. She can also sing and dance, though not at the same time. Jill is currently editing her first novel, and hopes it will be read by someone not in her immediate family.

Rina Weisman's invaluable though often unsolicited help has propelled Tachyon Publications into the vanguard of really well-run businesses. Rina spends her spare time reading books borrowed from Jacob, and has coined the verb "Brodarting." She also bakes a mean chocolate-chip cookie, and has actually read Kristin Lavransdatter. Rina 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 is otherwise unsuited for a normal, 9-5 life, and thus fits in nicely. 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. Since that time she has designed press kits, postcards, and the entire Fall catalog. She also helped staff Tachyon's trade-show booth. This is aside from doing various intern-y things like filing, making spreadsheets, and stuffing envelopes. 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. Self portrait pictured.

Charlene Brusso 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 entire Eastern Seaboard. She won the Hugo Award for Creative Parenting at the Toronto WorldCon in 2003. She is hard at work on her second novel.

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 whenever he brings by any unsolicited manuscripts. Koufax had completed working on his first novel and was weighing several offers from major publishing houses. He passed on this spring after a long, wonderful life. We miss him.