About Mary

Mary W. Walters is The Book Charmer, where she coaches writers of fiction and non-fiction books, and provides manuscript editing assistance prior to submission to established publishers or in preparation for self-publishing.

Mary also works with academics and other researchers as an editor, consultant and workshop leader on grant applications.  Her most recent book is Write an Effective Funding Application: A Guide for Researchers and Scholars (The Johns Hopkins University Press).

Mary has also developed three series of audiocasts to help 1) researchers and scholars, 2) writers and artists, and 3) non-profit organizations and community groups to write really effective funding applications.

The Whole Clove Diet,  Mary’s third novel, will be published in 2012. She has published two previous novels, The Woman Upstairs (originally published by NeWest Press, 1987) and Bitters (NeWest, 1999), as well as a collection of short stories (Cool, River Books, 2000). She has won a Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Excellence in Writing and an Alberta Achievement Award, and she is listed in Who’s Who in Canada. Her short fiction has been short-listed for such prizes as the CBC/Saturday Night Fiction Competition and the Journey Prize, and has been published in more than a dozen literary journals and magazines.

Mary is a former editor in chief at Lone Pine Publishing, and has worked as awards facilitator at the University of Saskatchewan.

Visit her website at www.marywwalters.com