About the Head of Networlding Publishing

Jon Malysiak: Chief Publishing Officer, Networlding Publishing, a division of Networlding

Jon Malysiak co-founded Jonathan Scott, Inc., a Chicago-based literary agency in 2005. Over the past four years, he has built a client list of 25-30 authors, predominantly within non-fiction categories. Some of his clients include:

• Spike Mendelsohn – contestant on Bravo TV’s top-rated show “Top Chef”; international chef and television personality; owner of the Washington D.C.-based Good Stuff Eatery; author of the upcoming The Good Stuff Cookbook (Wiley, 2010)
• Harvey Walden – fitness expert on VH1’s top-rated show “Celebrity Fit Club”; author of Harvey Walden’s No Excuses Fitness Workout (Rodale, 2007)
• Tim Dahlberg – award-winning Associated Press sports-writer co-author of America’s Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)
• Christine Louise Hohlbaum – author of the upcoming The Power of Slow: 101 Ways to Save Time in Our 24/7 World (St. Martin’s Press, 2009)
• Wes Moss – certified wealth manager, contestant on Season Two of “The Apprentice”; and author of Starting from Scratch (2^nd edition published by Kaplan Publishing, 2008) and Make More, Worry Less (Financial Times Press, 2008)

In his capacity as literary agent, 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 Apprenticecandidate; 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 and 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.)