Personnel News Former AMS ceo Gary Rautenstrauch has been named ceo of SirsiDynix, which provides technology solutions to the library market, starting this weekend at ALA. Douglas Maughan joins him as the new cfo. Da Capo Press executive editor Marnie Cochran is joining Ballantine as an executive editor in late July, and will continue to work from Boston. With her switch, Perseus is making Marlowe & Company a part of Da Capo’s Lifelong Books imprint, with Matthew Lore, as vp and executive editor. Wendy Holt Francis, Katie McHugh, and Renée Sedliar have all been promoted to senior editor, reporting to […]

Please Note Lunch is downshifting this week, and invoking the “except when not” part of our motto. We’ll be skipping at least a couple of the next few days, but as always, news will be posted to the PublishersMarketplace home page as warranted, and all the other site functions (including deals, jobs and more) will continue with their usual vigor. Rushdie Knighthood Reignites Controversy Salman Rushdie is being knighted by the Queen of England, one of 21 just announced knights-to-be. The honor, which a British spokesperson called “richly deserved,” for “self-explanatory” reasons, drew immediate protests from the Islamic world, including […]

Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them all together. “nice deal” $1 – $49,000 “very nice deal” $50,000 – $99,000 “good deal” $100,000 – $250,000 “significant deal” $251,000 – $499,000 “major deal” $500,000 and up FICTION Debut Tahmima Anam’s A GOLDEN AGE, about a mother’s all-consuming love for her […]

More PGW Fallout: Rizzoli to Buy Hugh Lauter Levin Associates The Connecticut-based publisher of illustrated books focusing on art, nature and wildlife, military history, Judaica and popular culture will be acquired by Rizzoli and vp and general manager James Muchett will join Rizzoli to “assist us in managing the acquired assets, and revising and re-launching key titles.” The company has a backlist of over 200 titles. Hugh Levin says in the announcement, “After over 34 years in my own publishing house, I feel it is time to look for new challenges. My company is now part of a great publishing […]

IMPAC to Petterson; Rowling to America Norwegian author Per Petterson won the IMPAC award for OUT STEALING HORSES, worth 75,000 euros, with translator Anne Born receiving 25,000 euros. J.K. Rowling will come to America in October, holding events in Los Angeles (at the Kodak Theater), New Orleans (at the convention center) and New York (at Carnegie Hall) for schoolchildren and a fourth event in New York open to 1,000 fans “lucky enough to win a ticket through a sweepstakes to be held by Scholastic.” She will read from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, answer questions from the audience, and […]

Einhorn’s Imprint, and More Personnel News Amy Einhorn is moving to Putnam to start the eponymous imprint Amy Einhorn Books, where she will be vp and publisher, beginning July 9 and reporting to president Ivan Held. Einhorn will publish fiction, narrative nonfiction and commercial nonfiction, focusing on “intelligent writing with a strong narrative, always with great storytelling at its core.” Einhorn has been hardcover editor-in-chief at Grand Central, where she also founded and launched the Five Spot imprint. At Doubleday Broadway, president and publisher Steve Rubin announced internally this morning “with profound regret” that svp, associate publisher and executive director […]