The Book Charmer
Testimonials
"I got my first novel published because of Mary W. Walters!
"Some years ago, I was inspired to write my first full-length novel, Billy the Kid’s Last Ride. My first draft was a diamond in the rough, (with the emphasis on ‘rough’). Luckily, I met Mary Walters. Ms. Walters doesn’t just look for typos (however, I now call her ‘Hawkeye’). She will counsel you on all elements of your work. She will point out clunky and imprecise sentences, she will help you to sustain intense points of view, and she will advise you as to the places where the arc of your story is less than compelling.
"Ms. Walters is not expensive. She is like an editing pit bull and she will do far more work than you pay her for. Her passion for good literature is such that she can’t help it. I wish I could have paid her more.
"The publishing industry is tough today, and very few new writers succeed in getting their first novels published. But with Ms. Walters’s help, my novel was published by Sunstone Press in 2011. Ms Walters helped me to turn my diamond in the rough into a polished professional product, fit for publication."
— John A. Aragon, author, Billy the Kid's Last Ride
"Mary W. Walters transformed my comprehensive audio program, The Successful Lawyer, into a top-selling American Bar Association text by the same name. She was a pleasure to work with because she did all the heavy lifting and was extremely good at drawing potential issues to my attention and helping me resolve them easily and quickly.
"Many of the lawyers with whom I work through Edge International write articles from time to time. I try to convince them to create a list of topics that would be akin to a table of contents for a book in their area of expertise. Once they had written the articles, Mary would be the perfect person to pull them together and create a publication with minimal imposition on the time of the lawyer/author.
"I would highly recommend Mary to any writer who wants exemplary editing."
— Gerald A. Riskin, Founder, Edge International
Mary is probably the best coach-editor any would-be author could possibly meet. She was invaluable in both roles for my first two books (Uneasy Patriots and Inside Outer Canada)." — David Kilgour, Member of Parliament (retired) and author of seven books, including most recently Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs
"Thank you for the terrific job you did in editing my first book, Inspiration to Live Your MAGIC! I loved the insightful questions you asked to ensure I gave careful consideration to detail issues that make a profound difference in the quality of a final manuscript. Asking questions, instead of just changing material, respects my role as author. I also appreciated the way you provided different files so I could see the stages of your editing, and included a separate file for comments.”
— Larry Anderson, President, LIAP Media, author, Inspiration to Live Your MAGIC!: 75 Inspiring Biographies
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"Mary Walters did such a great job editing The Song and the Silence that it garnered the year's best non-fiction award (1989) from the Alberta Writer's Guild. She's absolutely awesome to work with and any writer's work is bound to come to a finer polish by Mary's skillful hand._"
— Peter Jonker, author of The Song and the Silence: Sitting Wind—The Life of Stoney Indian Chief Frank Kaquitts
