Joni Evans

Joni Evans

Joni Evans is an American book publisher of over 100 bestsellers, writer, editor, and literary agent. Evans’s background and career in publishing includes posts as Senior Vice President of the William Morris Agency (1994-2006), President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster (1989-1994), and Publisher at Random House (1977-1989). [Herring, Ren. Interview with Joni Evans. wowOwow, New York. 5 March 2008.]

Career

Evans was most recently Senior Vice President at the William Morris Agency where she had been since 1994. Evans represented a wide array of authors including Marcus Buckingham, Christopher Byron, Ann Coulter, Fannie Flagg, Martin Garbus, Peggy Noonan, James Patterson, Liz Smith, John Stossel and Michael Weisskopf.

From 1989-1994, Evans was Executive Vice President at Random House Adult Trade Division and also Publisher of Turtle Bay Books, a division of Random House. Previously, she had worked at Simon and Schuster for 14 years where she served as Subsidiary Rights Director, Associate Publisher, then as Editor in Chief of her own division, the Linden Press, and finally as President and Publisher of Simon and Schuster.

Before that she worked as an editor at William Morrow Publishers, the Book of the Month Club, and for various women’s magazines.

Evans was part of a 2003 Penn & Teller's "Bullshit!" episode, which showed "a nice expose of Rosemary Altea during a taped readings arranged by Showtime. Viewers got a clear picture of how she worked the small group of people present for readings prior to the taping in order to glean information for later use. They also learned how her publicist, Joni Evans, seeded the group with people whose biographies were already known to Altea in order to boost her on-camera success." [cite news | url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2843/is_3_27/ai_100755210| title=Penn & Teller series exposes paranormal B.S. and gains audience |publisher=Skeptical Inquirer | date=May-June, 2003 | first=Kevin | last=Christopher | accessdate = 2006-12-28]

References

External links

* [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6282199.html Evans to Leave WMA]
* [http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/revolving_door/joni_evans_jumps_ship_27977.asp Joni Evans Jumps Ship]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE7DB153CF931A15753C1A961948260 Publishing: Joni Evans Does Less to do More]


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