Editing Loompanics (section)

==Company history==
Loompanics was in business for nearly 30 years. Its publisher and editor was Michael "Mike" Hoy<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Badenhausen |first=Kurt |date=8 February 1999 |url=https://www.forbes.com/global/1999/0208/0203028a.html |title=Crime 101 |magazine=Forbes |access-date=26 March 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001216104800/https://www.forbes.com/global/1999/0208/0203028a.html |archive-date=16 December 2000}}</ref> who started Loompanics Unlimited in East Lansing, Michigan, in 1975.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/1997/08/covert-catalog/ |title=Covert Catalog <!-- Regular column name: Street Cred --> |date=August 1997 |first=Simson |last=Garfinkel |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |volume=5 |issue=8 |access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> In 1982 he moved the business to Port Townsend, Washington, where his friend and fellow publisher [[R. W. Bradford]] had earlier relocated.<ref>{{cite news |first=Kasia |last=Pierzga |title=Alternative publisher calls it quits |work=Port Townsend Leader |date=25 January 2006}}</ref>

In January 2006, Loompanics announced that it was going out of business,<ref>{{cite web |last=Riismandel |first=Paul |date=January 24, 2006 |url=https://mediageek.net/2006/01/one-the-uss-greatest-publishers-going-out-of-business/ |title=One the US's Greatest Publishers Going Out of Business |website=mediageek.net |publisher=Author |access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> and that it was selling off its inventory. In the spring of 2006, [[Paladin Press]] announced that it acquired the rights to 40 titles previously published or sold by Loompanics, including the works of [[Claire Wolfe]], Eddie the Wire, and other popular Loompanics authors.<ref>[http://www.paladin-press.com/faqs Paladin Press FAQ]</ref>