Amy Kovalski, Editor
Amy Kovalski has been working in publishing for more than 25 years. She began her publishing career as an associate editor with Townsend Press in Voorhees, New Jersey, where she helped to write, revise, and sell college-level English and grammar textbooks.
She then worked as a copy editor and, later, development editor for Rodale Inc., where she worked on hundreds of health, fitness, cooking, and spirituality books. In 2004, she began her own freelance editorial services business, helping book publishers, universities, PR agencies, and marketing professionals produce high-quality, authoritative, and error-free books, magazines, PR pieces, website copy, and marketing materials.
Amy is thrilled to be a part of the Momosa team and often applies what she learns from editing Momosa books to her life. She wishes she had the Mommy MD Guides series of books to rely on when her now-tween daughter was a baby!
Hannah Rayner, Editorial Assistant
Hannah is 15 years old, and she has written two (as-of-yet unpublished) books. She lives in Eastern Pennsylvania with her parents, and she’s a member of Lower Saucon Fire Rescue. When not in school, Hannah enjoys taking pictures, biking, reading, playing piano and guitar, singing, skating, and doing karate.
Indexer, Nanette Bendyna
Nanette has indexed all of the books in the Mommy MD Guides series. In addition to being a longtime indexer, Nanette provides copy editing and proofreading services for publishers of trade books, medical textbooks, and scholarly publications. Her special areas of interest include health and fitness, alternative and complementary medicine, cooking, gardening, home improvement, and biographies.
Nanette earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple University. Before starting her own editorial services business, she worked as a newspaper reporter and copy editor.
Nanette lives in Bucks County, PA, with her husband, and she is the mother of a 25-year-old son.
You can reach Nanette at nbend@comcast.net.
Sara Altshul, Writer
In her 25 years of writing about health and medicine, Sara’s work often focuses on telling human stories that help explain health issues and complex conditions. She is known for her ability to extract compelling stories from clinicians, researchers and patients and for her sparkling copy for books, magazines and websites.
During her career with Rodale, Sara wrote women’s health books before becoming Prevention magazine’s first alternative medicine editor. She covered trends, news and research in her monthly column and wrote feature stories.
Sara’s articles have appeared in Prevention, More, Health, Better Homes & Gardens, Mindful, Heart Healthy Living, Dr. Oz the Good Life, Organic Style, More, Arthritis Today, Better Health & Living, First for Women and Alternative Medicine magazines.
She is also the author or co-author of health books including No More Pills, Women’s Book of Healing Herbs, Women Doctors’ Book of Home Remedies for Women, Natural Prescriptions for Women, Kitchen Cabinet Cures and New Choices in Natural Healing for Women.
Sara lives with her husband in Easton, PA, where she is a freelance staff writer for the American Geriatrics Society and serves on the board of directors for the Village on College Hill, a not-for-profit organization that enables older adults to live vibrant lives in their College Hill homes.
Lori McLaughlin, Researcher
Lori McLaughlin has over 35 years of marketing and editorial experience. Her eclectic interests are evidenced by her work for Jordan Marsh (retail), the Institute for Paralegal Training (education), Drinker Biddle & Reath (law), Rodale Press (publishing), Allentown Art Museum (education), AAA (travel agency) and Lehigh Valley Style (publishing). She has an undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and a masters from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.