Relationships Editor

Josie Brown is a feature writer whose articles on relationships and couples communication have appeared in Redbook and Complete Woman, as well as AOL’s Women Channel, Yahoo.com’s Personals Channel, askmen.com, affluentmale.com and numerous news and media outlets. She is also the editor of John Gray’s Mars Venus Advice, Dr. Gray’s internationally syndicated question-and-answer columns; and co-author, along with her husband, Martin, of Marriage Confidential: 102 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know [Signal Press].

She left the advertising industry to become a crusading investigative reporter. But because we live in a voyeuristic culture vulture society with an insatiable appetite for celebrity journalism, Josie found more work (and better pay) by rubbing elbows (not to mention egos) with the rich and famous. These days Josie still writes about celebrity, sex and scandal, only now it’s fiction—which, she insists, is just as strange as what she knows to be fact. Her two novels are IMPOSSIBLY TONGUE-TIED and TRUE HOLLYWOOD LIES. You can read excerpts of all her books on her blog: www.josiebrown.com. She lives in Marin County, California, with Martin and their two children.

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Family Editor

Melissa Chapman is a 34-year-old New York City writer, editor and columnist who has over ten years experience writing, editing and researching articles on parenting and pop culture.

In addition to her role as editor of Your Family for SingleMindedWomen.com, she also writes Kids in the City, a weekly column for The Staten Island Advance at www.silive.com/columnists/kidsinthecity, is a contributing blogger at NYC Moms Blog, svmomblog.typepad.com/nyc_moms, as well as a contributing writer for ivillage.com’s pregnancy and parenting channel, parenting.ivillage.com/mom/ and www.sarahferguson.com.

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Looks Editor

Erin Donnelly is an accomplished fashion and beauty writer who has traveled the globe in search of miracle wrinkle creams, comfortable heels, and bikinis that create the illusion of perfect abs. In addition to overseeing SingleMindedWomen.com’s Your Looks, Erin also covers style topics for TopButton.com, Body-Philosophy.net, UptownScoop.com, PursePage.com, Clubplanet.com, and Free, a NYC-based men’s magazine.

As the former senior editor for Sheckys.com, Erin wrote and edited the annual Beauty Book, a guide to New York City’s premier spas and salons and top beauty products. Erin has also written for WWD Scoop, Bust, Tango, Rave*SQ, Upscale, Red Nightlife, and the new in-flight magazine from Skybus Airlines, as well as numerous New York City travel guidebooks.

Erin’s style and nightlife expertise has caught the attention of several media outlets, including: “Good Day NY”; CBS 2 in New York; Crain’s Business News; The Daily News, NYC; and Century FM in the UK, for which Erin posted dispatches as “The ‘Sex and the City’ Girl.”

After spending the past five years living in New York City and London, Erin is currently based in the mellower climes of Austin, TX.

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Career Editor

Paula Santonocito has extensive experience as a business journalist and editor covering a wide range of employment issues. She is the author of nearly 1,000 articles that are featured in many global and domestic publications and information outlets. In addition, her work been posted at more than 100 websites throughout the world, referenced in academic publications, and translated into several languages.

Paula also serves as AIRS News editor, overseeing news content for the award-winning recruitment training and sourcing technology company, and she is features editor of the North American edition of Online Recruitment Magazine, a publication of the highly-respected UK-based organization Onrec.

Because Paula often writes from the employer side of the desk, she brings a unique “insider” perspective to topics important to SMW readers--topics like what employers are looking for in new hires, how to best use the Internet when searching for a job, why your online image matters, and much more.

An early adopter of Internet technology, Paula is passionate about the opportunities the Internet offers with regard to career advancement--from job search to business networking to education and training, and beyond.

The Internet has impacted Paula’s life and career. After living and working for many years in New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area, Paula moved to Vermont, where, thanks to technology, she has her fingers, quite literally, on what happens in the employment arena. Email Paula

Money & Health Editor

Martin Brown is a former CBS Radio Network news journalist whose articles on relationships have appeared in REDBOOK, PLAYBOY, and COMPLETE WOMAN magazines, as well as affluentmale.com, askmen.com, and redbookmag.com, AOL Women’s Network, and Yahoo!.com’s relationship network. He is also co-editor of the syndicated column John Gray’s Mars Venus Advice, and co-author, along with his wife, Josie, of MARRIAGE CONFIDENTIAL: 101 Honest Answers to the Questions Every Husband Wants to Ask, and Every Wife Needs to Know.

Food Editor

Fabiana Santana is a freelance food writer, editor, and recipe tester & developer based in New York City. She is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute&rquot;s Culinary Technique program and has worked as a writer and recipe taster for Family Circle, Profile Magazine, Shecky&rquot;s, Julib.com, Time Out NY and many others.

Fabiana also wrote the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of BLT Living, Chef Laurent Tourondel&rquot;s Lifestyle and Food magazine. In addition, she has done food styling and produced food photography. As an experienced photo editor, Fabiana has also worked at Vanity Fair, CN Portfolio, Maxim, Stuff, Men&rquot;s Health, Star, TV Guide, and a variety of other consumer magazines during the course of her career.

SMW Talk Radio Host

Rachelle Chase is an award-winning erotic romance author, speaker, business consultant, and model. Her recent erotic romance books include SIN CLUB and SEX LOUNGE. Her first completed and published work, Out of Control, a novella in SECRETS VOLUME 13, came out in 2005. An excerpt from Out of Control is used in ON WRITING ROMANCE, published by Writers Digest Books, to illustrate how to effectively heighten sexual tension in a romance book.

As a speaker, her presentations include: How to Get Published by Accident, Aggressive Promotion for Penny Pinchers, and Making the Mundane Erotic. As a Business Analyst, she works for numerous Fortune 500 companies.

When she’s not writing sexy romance novels or attending meetings, Rachelle creates fun Internet contests. Recent examples include the annual Chase the Dream contest for writers, co-sponsored with author Leigh Michaels, and the SEX LOUNGE Finding Derek CONTEST, an online contest which featured hunky guys competing for the role of Derek, the hero in SEX LOUNGE.

Rachelle has appeared on Playboy Radio, the Hip-Hop Connection, the Jordan Rich Show, and other radio programs nationwide. For more information on her books and contests, please visit www.RachelleChase.com.

SMW Advisory Board Members / Contributors

John Challenger is chief executive officer of Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc., the global outplacement consultancy that pioneered outplacement as an employer-paid benefit in the 1960s. A recognized thought leader on workplace, labor, and economic issues, his insight is frequently sought out by major foreign and domestic broadcast and print media.

Challenger serves on the President’s Circle steering committee of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is president and board member of the Japan America Society of Chicago. In 2004, he served on the Host Committee for the Annual Midwest U.S.-Japan Association Conference. Challenger is also a member of the board of the Human Resources Management Association of Chicago and chaired the organization’s 2005 Summit, during which he conducted an interview with former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman.

Challenger is active in the Chicago chapters of World Presidents Organization and Chief Executives Organization. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union League Club and is active in the Economic Club of Chicago, Chicago Club and Metropolitan Club. He also was a member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago International Film Festival.

A graduate of Harvard University, Challenger currently serves as Regional Director Great Lakes of the Harvard Alumni Association. He also sits on the board of the Harvard Club of Chicago and served as its President from 2002 to 2004. Challenger serves on the Parent’s Council of Miami (Ohio) University, where his oldest son is a student. Challenger resides in Winnetka, Illinois, with his wife Nancy and five children.

Contributors

Gretchen Kelly has traveled solo around the world to over 50 countries in the past five years. As the former News Editor for Business Traveler magazine, she reported from the road on global business travel and trends for five years. As a freelance travel reporter working for the New York Post, Executive Travel, Women’s Health and the Travel Channel, among others, she has written about global leisure travel trends and destinations from locales as far flung as Armenia, the Transylvanian mountains of Romania and the North Pole. When not on the road and living like Lara Croft, Kelly can be found tucked safely in bed with a steaming cup of hot tea and her significant feline others, Boots and No Boots.

Tracy Morris has written extensively for the Internet, beginning with About.com as their first Guide to Infertility (1997-2002) and as a Consultant to Moms Online (1998-2000), an original part of the Oxygen Media network. Following those earlier years in Web publishing, bringing patients and experts together online, Tracy expanded her freelance availability to include health care media and public relations and writing/editing for consumer magazines.

Throughout her prior career of family-centered and medical social work, Tracy spent 15 years in the arenas of substance abuse prevention, residential adolescent psychiatric treatment, foster care, battered women&rquot;s shelters, HIV services, and hospitals -- all of which may explain why, second only to running around town with her son, her favorite activity is being alone with a computer.

Tracy retreated in 1997 to work as a writer from her home while raising the boy and their menagerie. Her varied professional and personal experiences provide an abundance of rich sources for creativity and solid information. She is a member of the Association of Health Care Journalists, and is presently editor of several patient education newsletters and contributor to websites, blogs, and magazines on health care topics.

Sandi Duffy is a freelance writer whose article topics range from relationships to educational issues to parenting. She has been an educator for the past 13 years. Sandi once worked as a Project Manager for various Pharmaceutical Advertising and Medical Education Companies and has been employed an editor for medical and surgical publications. She left the advertising industry in 1995 to pursue a career as an educator and has never looked back. Currenly she works as a teacher in New Jersey and also runs workshops for other professional educators covering various educational practices.

Widowed suddenly in 2007 and left to care for her two young children alone, Sandi started her blog A Widow for One Year and is currently working on a memoir, Young Widow: One Woman’s Journey Through the First Year and Beyond.

She lives in Northern New Jersey with her two young children.

Dr. Robert Mushnick is a board certified internist and nephrologist who has been in practice since 1989. He initially worked as a physician and teacher in the Downstate Medical System and earned the rank of Clinical Assistant Professor. In New York City at Long Island College Hospital he co-authored many original articles and presented original research at  national and international conferences. Most recently he has worked as a primary care physician focusing on cardiovascular disorders including Hypertension and Lipid management. In the future he would like to dedicate his efforts not only to the practice of medicine but to improving the doctor patient relationship.

Jessica Pegis, aka O Solo Mama http://osolomama.wordpress.com/ is solo mom to  11-year-old Simone, born in Jiangxi Province, China, and adopted in 1998. Jess has worked in publishing all her adult life, and has freelanced for the Financial Post (now the National Post), the Toronto Star, Xtra!, eye weekly, and NOW. She works at home in downtown Toronto surrounded by two guilt-tripping cats and a hamster. Jess&rquot;s website www.talkplaythink.com (please hyperlink) offers tips on fun, brainy stuff to do with kids so they grow up saying "I wonder" instead of "Whatever."