This wide-ranging handbook is aimed at students who want to develop their fiction writing skills. Reading and reflective practice are foregrounded, and students are given constant recommendations of what they might read. Imaginative and accessible, this companionable handbook is clearly and innovatively structured around the processes and techniques of developing writing. It will allow students to acquire a portfolio of key skills and is ideal for anyone writing short stories or longer fiction.

Jonathan Smith is an ordinary 18 year old mechanic from London. One night, on his way home from work, he is brutally murdered. His friends and family are shocked by the tragedy. Jonathan arrives in Heaven, where he meets his long dead father, James, who is an angel, and it turns out that Jonathan himself is half angel. James tells Jonathan that he is destined to lead the angels to victory against their enemies, the demons. Meanwhile, in New York, serial killer Cain Bennett is shot and killed in a shoot out with local cops and F.B.I. agents. He arrives in Hell, where he is recruited by Lucifer...