Judi McMahon, a native New Yorker is an author of how-to books published by leading publishers like Dell and Harper Collins during the 1980s. She was also a newspaper columnist and reporter, as well as the entertainment editor and restaurant reviewer for a Manhattan weekly and wrote for such diversified publications as NEW YORK MAGAZINE, CATHOLIC NEW YORK and THE STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE. In 1994, after a heart-breaking divorce from the man she married twice (she went back for more punishment!) she decided to adopt a child. (You can read all about her life in her novelized memoir, IF THEY ASK ME