By Joni Evans | Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - Off the Shelf

Joni Evans’ 35-plus year career in publishing includes serving as President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster, and Publisher at Random House. Most recently she was Senior VP of the William Morris Agency’s literary department, where she repped such bestselling authors as Marcus Buckingham, Ann Coulter, Fannie Flagg, Quincy Jones, Mary Wells Lawrence, Peggy Noonan, Martin Garbus, James Patterson, Liz Smith and John Stossel.
  
She is a founding member and CEO of wowowow.com (The Women on the Web), a free, daily internet website by, for, and about women. She has written for the New York TimesThe Washington PostVanity FairNew York and O
Off the Shelf asked Joni about publishing actress Candice Bergen’s New York Times bestseller, Knock Wood