Joni Evans
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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).[1]
[edit] Career
Joni 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.
[edit] References
- ^ Herring, Ren. Interview with Joni Evans. wowOwow, New York. 5 March 2008.
