Joni Evans (born April 20, 1942)[1] is an American book publisher of over 100 bestsellers, writer, editor, and literary agent.

Michael Korda in his memoir describes Evans and with her the rise of the importance of publishing rights in the mid-1970s as well as her eventual partnership with Richard E.

[4] 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.

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.