Classes

Julies teaches the following classes:

Query Letters That Sell - Online class or live workshop

Taught from both a romance writer and magazine freelancer's perspective, this is a hands on class on how to write query letters, cover letters and submission packages that excite editors and agents.

The workshop will focus on writing fiction query letters from a freelancer's point of view. Participants will be coached on how to turn their fiction query letter into an effective sales pitch, their cover letter into a fabulous calling card and their submission package into one that stands out from the crowd.

Topics covered include:

• What is a query letter?
      - Elements of a good query.
      - Start with your title.
  
• Your writing credentials.
  
• The pitch.
  
• Endings & pulling it all together.
  
• Query letter checklist & presentation tips.
  
• I got a request for a partial/full - now what?
       - Cover letters.
  
• The submission package.
  
• Interpreting rejection and revision letters.

Examples of successful fiction and non-fiction queries and cover letters will be provided. Participants should plan to edit and revise a query during the workshop.



Writing for Magazines

Interested in writing for magazines? This class is for you! You'll learn the process of creating an article, from coming up with an idea to how to sell that idea to a magazine and write your finished piece. We'll tear apart real examples of successful queries and their subsequent published articles see what worked, and what didn't work, and why.

Topics include:

• Why fiction writers should also write for magazines.
• Choosing the right magazine and editor to query.
• Topics, research, angles, titles and hooks.
• The knock-out magazine query letter.
• How-to: get quotes, statistics and fact check.
• Writing the article, sidebars and photography.
• Word count, deadlines, contracts and invoicing.
• Creating a portfolio and finding your niche.
  

Time Management workshop or How To Become An Intelligent Octopus

Would you like to get more done with your twenty four hours a day? Learn multi-tasking techniques from an admitted volunteer junkie, habitual online class taker, email time waster, Blog addict, voracious romance reader and prolific writer who swears cloning is not required.

The title for this workshop was inspired by an episode of M*A*S*H called, Carry On Hawkeye. The entire camp comes down with the flu and the only doctor left standing is Hawkeye. During surgery, Hawkeye tries to operate on three patients at once. He has many helpers and all of them are yelling for him to come help them simultaneously.

His response is: "My kingdom for an intelligent octopus!"

In this workshop Julie will discuss how to set realistic, but challenging priorities and goals, where to put yourself on those lists, dealing with the time factor, developing winning self-discipline and a kick-butt attitude, where to find your motivation and setting yourself up for success.

Julie Rowe has been freelancing for magazines for over five years. She's an enthusiastic instructor who enjoys lively discussion and encourages questions. She has taught online and in person for the Calgary chapter of Romance Writer's of America and her writing has appeared in numerous magazines such as Canadian Living, Reader's Digest (Canada) and Today's Parent.