Barbara Shine's creative nonfiction has appeared in the
Washington Post Health and Sunday Style sections (click on
Planet Drum to read one of her personal essays), in Maryland
magazine, and in the online journals Tiny Lights and Long
Story Short. A few selections also can be viewed at the
Associated Content  and Helium.com Web sites.

Long Story Short published Ms. Shine's "Courtesy absurd" as its
Poem of the Month for November 2005. "Tell-Tale Heart" is a
personal essay published in Washingtonian magazine's March
2006 issue.

The newly published anthology The Pen Is  Mightier Than the
Broom: Memoirs, Stories, and Poems (by the Stromboli Streghe
and Barbara Shine, Editor) includes several of Ms. Shine's
personal essays. She is now working on a collection of essays,
vignettes, poems, and art relating her experience as a sexual
assault survivor -- both the trauma and the ongoing recovery.

In her career as a medical and technical writer, Ms.
Shine has produced articles for NIDA Notes,  SAMHSA News,
and other health-related newsletters as well as dozens of
patient factsheets and public education booklets. Current
clients include Aspen Systems in Rockville, Maryland, for
whom she is providing editorial support to the National Center
for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at NIH.

Through her technical editing and publication
management, Ms. Shine has helped publishers to enhance
their communications' appeal, accuracy, and effectiveness.
She has edited newsletters such as NIDA Notes, peer-reviewed
journals such as Science & Practice Perspectives, and book
chapters and training manuals for continuing professional
education.

Ms. Shine has assisted vocational trainer Robert Lindsey
(disclosure: he's her husband) by editing an instructional
guide, Teaching the Inch, which provides a method and simple
tools to help vocational instructors teach the skill of
measurement to trainees in construction trades who may not
have had adequate education on fractional measurements.
Professionals in voc ed who want to know more about Teaching
the Inch should contact Mr. Lindsey at boblindsey@vabb.com.

In the arena of general nonfiction editing, Ms. Shine has
recently assisted in bringing three books to publication:

  • The Pen Is Mightier Than the Broom (iUniverse, Nov. 2006)
    is an anthology of memoirs, stories, and poems by the
    Stromboli Streghe, a women's writing and critique group
    in the Washington, D.C., area that has been meeting
    continuously for more than 10 years.

  • The Isle of Is: A Guide to Awakening, published by
    Streamline Creative (New Zealand) in February 2006,
    was created by Caroline Cottom and Thom Cronkhite to
    help seekers realize the possibility of an awakened life.
    For more information on the book, and to order it, click
    on the cover at left;  and to learn about the work of these
    spiritual leaders and healers on Koro Island, Fiji,
    contact The Center Within.

  • Judith Barr, a spiritual midwife practicing in Connecticut,
    has recently published Power Abused, Power Healed.
    The book illustrates through the retelling of a fairy tale,
    "The Emperor's New Clothes," how abuse of power can
    have lifelong effects on both the victims and the abusers.
    To learn more about the book, click here.


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