Workshop: Plot Meets Character with editor Kate Prosswimmer
Oct 09, 2025
Online event
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: Discover the key to plotting and revising a cohesive, satisfying novel through the intersection of plot structure and character development. In this interactive workshop, you’ll be introduced to a variety of storytelling structure tools from the basic three act structure to the more complex Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody. Each storytelling guide will be applied to Star Wars: A New Hope to see how guides overlap and intersect with each other, and attendees will have the chance to experiment with applying these tools to their own work during the workshop portion of the presentation.
Quick Facts
HOST REGION: Eastern Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Kristen C. Strocchia [email protected]
COST:
- Premium Members: $25 USD
- Preview Plan: $40 USD
WRITTEN CRITIQUES: available at an additional cost; scroll down for more information
RECORDING
The workshop will be recorded, and the recording will be available for one month following the event. Attendees will receive a link and a password by email about two days after the event.
REGISTRATION CONFIRMATIONS
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REFUND POLICY
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Meet the Faculty
About Kate
Kate Prosswimmer is a Senior Editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s, where she’s been acquiring picture books, middle grade, and young adult novels since 2019. She is excited to be working with a talented group of New York Times bestselling, award-winning authors, including Amanda Foody, F.T. Lukens, Jonathan Graziano, Rebecca Barrow, Tolá Okogwu, and Scott Reintgen to name a few. She previously spent five years at Sourcebooks, where she had the privilege of editing a number of award-winning titles like Zoraida Córdova’s Brooklyn Brujas series and Jess Keating’s Shark Lady. Kate loves books for their power to transport and transform readers, something she looks for in all of her projects. In her spare time, Kate loves hyperfixating on new hobbies, watching too many SFF TV shows and movies, and dreaming of living in the house from Practical Magic.
PB, MG, & YA critiques available (at additional cost)
ADDITIONAL COST:
- Premium Members: $60 USD
- Preview Plan: $65 USD
For all submissions, format your work in 12 point font, with one-inch margins, and double spacing. (US Letter paper size-Include all materials in the same document; please don’t send two documents.)
- For Picture Book (PB): Please send entire manuscript or dummy and a 1- to 3-sentence pitch including comps (in the same document). Translator submissions should include a brief note about the source work (also in the same document).
- For Middle Grade/Young Adult (MG/YA): Please send up to 10 pages of your manuscript and a 1- to 3-sentence pitch including comps (in the same document). Translator submissions should include a brief note about the source work (also in the same document).
⇒Please include your name on every page of your work as a header or a footer, as well as identifying information on page one: first & last name, email address, title, genre.
⇒Please SAVE YOUR FILE as Workshop Faculty Last Name_Your Last Name_TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT as a PDF or DOC or DOCx.
Example: Prosswimmer_Strocchia_PURPLE CARROTS
⇒Then send your file to Kristen at [email protected]. The subject should read: Webinar Faculty Last Name_Your Last Name_TITLE OF MANUSCRIPT (same as saved file name).
Submission deadline: Friday, October 10, 2025.
We anticipate critiques to be returned on or about Tuesday, November 11, 2025.