Text Box: Closing Comments Text Box: You may have noticed the ad for the Breakroom Café is missing. Sorry to say, that the Breakroom has closed. *** Here in Des Moines, we have been suffering through one of the snowiest and coldest winters in recent history. We have snow on the ground that is over two months old! *** I hope to get back up to speed for the March issue. I’ll need to get ready for our trip to Cabo. *** I’m making some of my pictures available online through a new web page. So far, I just have one folder with pictures of the Iowa Stars Hockey team. Check it out here: http://jerryspad.net2go.com Text Box: Text Box: Mystery Writers Resource Text Box: As always, if you’d like more information on any article in the newsletter, contact me with your questions. jerry@jerryhooten.com Text Box: Phone: 515-314-4663 Fax: 515-277-7426 PMB 101 2643 Beaver Avenue Des Moines, IA 50310-3909 Text Box: Books by Mode Self-publishing is for: First-time authors Graduate students who want to publish their theses. Cooks who want to compile their recipes. Church groups or others who want to publish recipe collections as fund-raisers. Companies that want their handbooks in book form. Memoir writers. Family historians. Novelists who want bound manuscripts to show agents and editors. Professional writers self-publishing out-of-print works. Teachers or parents who want to publish a collection of students’ writings. Anyone who wants a manuscript published. Questions?

Ed Hoch and Heidi Hooten (my daughter) at Bouchercon 33 in Austin, Texas, in 2002.  Ed Hoch was a long supporter of the mystery genre.  He was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 2001 and is best known for his short stories, or which he published over 900.  He had his stories published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine for over 30 years.  He died of a heart attack at his home in Rochester, NY on January 17.

Ed Hoch 1930—2008

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