New Releases: Sachar and Bremer Louis Sachar’s first big book since 1998’s Holes releases today with an announced 500,000-copy first printing. SMALL STEPS is billed as a companion to Holes, but the Seattle PI says “don’t read too much into that. The two books have little in common apart from sharing a couple of characters.” Sachar says “I think (the new book) definitely stands on its own.” Despite the big printing, the paper says pre-pub notice was slim: “The countdown, however, has generated surprisingly little word of mouth, possibly because Sachar is so tight-lipped about his projects that even his […]