Best-Selling Macomber Leaves Harlequin for Ballantine Bantam Dell

(Press Release) New York, October 4, 2010—Debbie Macomber, a No. 1 best-selling author of women's fiction, with more than 130 million copies of her novels in print worldwide, will join the Random House Publishing Group in 2012, to be published by its Ballantine Bantam Dell division's Ballantine imprint. Gina Centrello, President and Publisher, Random House Publishing Group, announced the acquisition from the author's agent, Theresa Park of the Park Literary Group, of worldwide hardcover, paperback, audio, and e-book publication rights for six Macomber novels. Terms were not disclosed.