Claire has taught numerous workshops for writers' groups, including those listed here. To contact Claire about teaching a workshop to your group, please email her - replace the caps with the appropriate symbol and remove all spaces.
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A. Full Day
• Romancing the Market - A Survivor’s Guide to Selling in a Volatile Market
Greater Vancouver RWA - June 1999
• Mix and Match - I’ve taught full day workshops that were a combination of shorter workshops. This generally takes the format of half a day on the craft of writing romance and half a day on the business of publishing. Those days are listed here, and the group also listed with the individual workshops they chose.
Colorado Romance Writers - November 2004
"Falling in Love with the Romance Genre" - Toronto Romance Writers - January 2009
B. Half Day
• The Business of Writing
Ottawa RWA Chapter - December 2000
Toronto RWA Chapter - May 2000
RWA AskAnAuthorALL Listserve - June 2003
Colorado Romance Writers - November 2004
Toronto Romance Writers - January 2009
C. 60 Minutes
• The Holy Grail of Voice
RWA National New York, NY - July 2003
Victoria RWA Conference - March 2004
New Jersey RWA Conference - October 2004
Colorado Romance Writers - November 2004
• Structuring - and Selling! - a Linked Trilogy of Romances
RWA National Reno NV - July 2005
• Parachute Packing 101 - Survival Tips for a Volatile Market
Book Lover’s Breakfast Lake County Romance Writers - June 2000
• Welcome to my World - Worldbuilding Easy as 1-2-3
FF&P Mini-Con/RWA National Washington DC - July 2000
Colorado Romance Writers - November 2004
• Writing (and Selling!) Paranormal & Fantasy Romance
Royal Rendezvous at the Empress RWA Victoria Conference - March 1998
Toronto Romance Writers - September 2003
Colorado Romance Writers - November 2004
• Making Settings Come Alive
Marshlands RWA (Moncton, NB) - Novel Ideas Conference - June 1999
Ottawa RWA Chapter - September 1998
Toronto RWA Chapter - September 1998
Royal Rendezvous at the Empress RWA Victoria Conference - March 1998
RWA Buffalo Conference - September 1994
Sea to Sky Conference Greater Vancouver RWA - March 1994
• The Secret of Your Own Success
Breakfast Keynote Marshlands RWA (Moncton, NB) Novel Ideas Conference - June 1999
STARt Your Engines - Southern Tier Authors of Romance Workshop - Keynote - October 2003
• Conquering the Synopsis
Buffalo RWA Chapter - June 1998
Toronto RWA Chapter - April 2007
II.
Online Workshops
A. One Month
• Writing the Historical Romance
STAR (Southern Tier Authors of Romance) Online Workshop - August 2004
(?)
B. One Week
• Conquering the Synopsis
Hearts Through History chapter - January 2005
• Romancing the Market - A Survivor’s Guide to Selling in
a Volatile Market
RWA Online Chapter (through Compuserve) - June 2003
• The Business of Writing
RWA AskAnAuthorALL Listserve - June 2003
• Medieval Witchcraft
Hearts Through History RWA Chapter - December 2001
RWA Online Chapter (through Compuserve) - August 2003
• A Lot of Things - but not everything! - That You’ve Ever
Wanted to Know About Publishing Contracts
RWA AskAnAuthor ALL Online Workshop - November 2004
• Writing (and Selling!) Paranormal & Fantasy Romance
RWA AskAnAuthor PRO Listserve - March 2003