Tom Sawyer has written over 100 network television episodes, and nine pilot scripts. He has served as Producer, Creative Consultant or Story Editor on 15 network television series. He was Producer/Head Writer for the long-running CBS hit, Murder, She Wrote, for which he wrote 24 episodes.

Mr. Sawyer has been nominated for an Edgar by the Mystery Writers of America, and his song lyrics earned him an Emmy nomination. His short film, Reunion, was honored by the New York, Rochester and Edinburgh Film Festivals. Alice Goodbody, a theatrical feature which Mr. Sawyer wrote, directed and produced was in release for 17 years. He has directed theater in New York and Los Angeles.

He is co-author/lyricist of Jack, a contemporary opera about John F. Kennedy that has been staged at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut and at the University of Oklahoma. Jack opened in Dublin in April, 1997, prior to going to London's West End and then to Broadway.

Mr. Sawyer has taught creative writing at UCLA Extension, and has lectured extensively on screenwriting and fiction writing at various universities and writers conferences.

Mr. Sawyer knows storytelling! Here's what he says about Plotting:

"Any student of fiction is aware that there are no new stories or plots; they were all used up by the time Shakespeare packed it in. But the way each writer views the world - through his or her own unique filters - the individual spin we put on these tried and true stories is what makes them our own, whether we're turning Cinderella into My Fair Lady or Pretty Woman, translating Pagliacci into an episode of Murder, She Wrote, or folding The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf' into a Seinfeld episode. That's what PLOTS UNLIMITED is all about."