Hinds, Maurene J.

PERSONAL: Female. Education: Montana State University, B.A.; Vermont College, M.F.A.

ADDRESSES: Home—MY. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Enslow Publishers, Inc., Box 398, 40 Industrial Rd., Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922-0398. E-mail—maurenejhinds@msn.com.

CAREER: Freelance writer, teacher, and professional resume writer.

MEMBER: Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Professional Association of Resume Writers.

WRITINGS:

Focus on Body Image: How You Feel about How You Look, Enslow Publishers (Berkeley Heights, NJ), 2002.

The Ferguson Guide to Resumes and Job Hunting Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing for Your Job Search, Ferguson (New York, NY), 2005.

Furman v. Georgia and the Death Penalty Debate: Debating Supreme Court Decisions, Enslow Publishers (Berkeley Heights, NJ), 2005.

You Have the Right to Know Your Rights: What Teens Should Know, Enslow Publishers (Berkeley Heights, NJ), 2005.

SIDELIGHTS: Maurene J. Hinds is a freelance author who writes on a range of subjects, including teen's and children's topics and education. In Focus on Body Image: How You Feel about How You Look, she mixes research with personal stories on the topics of physical insecurities and pressures on teens and their bodies. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, steroids usage, and muscle dysmorphia are all covered in the text. Writing in School Library Journal, Mary R. Hoffman complimented the book, observing that overall the "message is sound and helpful."

With over a decade of resume-writing experience, Hinds authored The Ferguson Guide to Resumes and Job Hunting Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing for Your Job Search. This work concentrates on writing resumes, curricula vitae, and cover letters, but it also includes assessment tests, writing samples, and common job-hunting mistakes. Praising the included samples, Barbara Jacobs reported in Booklist that Hinds does a "good job" compiling information.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, November 1, 2005, Barbara Jacobs, review of The Ferguson Guide to Resumes and Job Hunting Skills: A Step-by-Step Guide to Preparing for Your Job Search, p. 8.

School Library Journal, January, 2003, Jane Halsall, review of Focus on Body Image: How You Feel about How You Look, p. 162; November, 2005, Mary R. Hoffman, review of Focus on Body Image, p. 58.

ONLINE

Maurene J. Hinds Home Page, http://www.maurenejhinds.com (February 28, 2006).