Plot structure and book pacing is critical to winning fans from among the millions of readers who were raised on a steady diet of TV and movies. Learn how to use spatial schematics, brainstorming, character sketches, relationship trees and traditional scene outlining to create the "architecture" for your book.

These tools will help you:

• Present your plot to readers at a pace they are accustomed to
• Develop lifelike characters that take up appropriate space in the story
• Build an outline that lets you dive in and start writing whenever you have even a little time free

Participants are encouraged to come with a book idea, a large pad of paper, plus several different colored pens to get the full benefit of the class.

About Katy Munger

Katy Munger is a North Carolina-based author who has written fourteen novels under several different pseudonyms. She is the author of the Dead Detective series, writing as Katy Munger (Angel Among Us and Angel of Darkness) and as Chaz McGee (Desolate Angel and Angel Interrupted); the Casey Jones crime fiction series writing as Katy Munger; and the Hubbert & Lil mystery series, writing as Gallagher Gray.

Katy has also been a book critic for the Washington Post and was awarded the 2002 Ellen Nehr Award for excellence in the field of reviewing crime fiction.