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homes before I started trying to dig my way into my
driveway at home.
While the weather was less hostile (though very
cold) in January, the city did such a bad job of
plowing the streets that many people are hesitant to
park at the meters, and the piles of snow has wiped
out half the dentist’s parking lot, so business has
continued to suffer. Let me remind you of the
parking ramp on the far side of the former Sears
building. If you park there and take your parking
ticket with you into the Global Marketplace and buy
anything from any vendor, they can stamp your
parking ticket for 3 hours of free parking.
People have been waiting for years for the sequel to
the wonderful and award-winning fantasy The Name of
the Wind ($24.95 hc, $8.99 pb) by Patrick Rothfuss.
The Wise Man’s Fear ($29.95) is finally coming in
early March (and received a starred review in
Publishers Weekly). The publisher contacted us on
October 15 to suggest a date for Patrick to sign at
Uncle Hugo’s. I told them that we could have the
signing on that date and suggested a time, but also
suggested that a weekend signing would draw more
people than a Thursday signing. I never heard back
from the publisher. In January, with 100 copies of
the hardcover on order for the Thursday signing, I
tried to find out from the publisher what was going
on, and still received no response. So I e-mailed to
Patrick to see if he knew what was going on. He e-
mailed back that the publisher had dropped Uncle