Rita Just Wants to Be Thin (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781495312656)

Mary W. Walters has published three other novels, The Woman Upstairs (originally published by NeWest Press, 1987), Bitters (NeWest, 1999), and The Adventures of Don Valiente and the Apache Canyon Kid (co-authored with John A. Aragon, 2012) 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. Also an accomplished and highly experienced editor, she has followed the changes to the publishing industry closely on her blog, The Militant Writer, and is in increasing demand to talk about how writers can publish top-quality literary works on independent platforms.