Mary Jane Horton has been a writer and editor for 30 years since earning her journalism degree at New York University . One of her first publishing jobs was with the literary agency Sanford J Greenberger Associates. She began writing in the burgeoning health and fitness field for such magazine as Fit, Runner’s World and Slimmer. She traveled the world, writing for Fodor’s guides, Meeting and Conventions, Travel Agent, Successful Meetings, Diversion and other consumer and trade travel publications. She was a stringer for Time magazine for several years and has written for Ms., Shape, Prevention, Living Fit, Woman’s Day special interest publications, Vegetarian Times and many other publications. In the mid-90s, after having 2 children, she became an editor at Fit Pregnancy and Living Fit magazines. She has also been editor in chief of Plum magazine, a lifestyle magazine for pregnant women over 35.