About Us

Jon Malysiak 
Jon Malysiak co-founded Jonathan Scott, Inc., a Chicago-based literary agency in 2005. Over the past
six years, he has built a client list of 25-30 authors, predominantly within non-fiction categories. 
Jon has worked with a number of top publishing houses, including Wiley, St. Martin’s Press, Rodale,
Jossey-Bass, and Adams Media, among others.

Prior to opening the agency, Jon was the acquisitions editor in charge of the general business and
management lists at Dearborn Trade Publishing (now Kaplan) where he achieved 125% of his annual
signing goal. Among the authors Jon acquired were Jack Stahl, CEO Revlon Cosmetics; Wesley Moss,
entrepreneur and Apprentice candidate; Phil Romano, renowned billionaire restaurateur and founder of
the Fuddrucker’s and Romano’s Macaroni Grill chains; Luc de Brabandere, senior partner at the Boston
Consulting Group and Europe’s best-selling author on creativity and innovation in business, and others. 
Prior to his employment at Dearborn, Jon was an acquisitions editor at Sourcebooks, where he acquired
titles for its MediaFusion imprint. Jon got his start in publishing in 1998 as an Associate Acquisitions
Editor at IDG Books/Hungry Minds (now Wiley) where he acquired titles in the categories of personal
finance and small business, including the one million-copy bestseller Personal Finance For Dummies.

In his spare time, Jon enjoys soccer, horseback riding, physical fitness, Bollywood films, music,
photography and travel. He is also in the process of writing his first novel.

Jon holds a Master’s Degree in Literature from DePaul University (2000) and a Bachelor’s in Music
from Knox College (1993.)