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Q: MySQL help: Find Rank of a particular user on the number of its occurance in another table I have two tables 'users' and 'invites'
Fields of users - id, name, email, ...
Fields of invites- email, invitedby, status
My Problems:

*

*Find the rank list of users on 'invites' table where the top user will be the one who has the most number of (status='confirmed') invites.

*Find the rank of a particular user say id=15 where it stands on the rank list of total umber of invites.
Tones of Thanks in advance

A: For the first,
SELECT invitedby as id,COUNT(*) as confirmed
FROM invites
WHERE status='confirmed'
GROUP BY invitedby

For the second, use the first as a subquery (or you could make a view out of it) and then check to see how many other ids have a greater value than the one for the user you're looking for:
SELECT COUNT(*) as rank FROM (
    SELECT invitedby as id,COUNT(*) as confirmed
    FROM invites
    WHERE status='confirmed'
    GROUP BY invitedby
) as s
WHERE s.confirmed > XXXXX

(and replace XXXXX with the confirm count of the user you're querying for - if you make the first query a view you can easily use another SELECT to look this up). This will give you a rank where the top item is 0, the second item is 1, and so on.

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Q: ISO 14443 Type A Card Read/Write using Android I am trying to write an Android App to read/write an NFC Card which supports the ISO 14443 Type A standard. After a thorough search it seems that the only option left now for me is to use the IsoDep class and its transceive method by sending the APDU commands. The card that I have is a SmartCafe dual interface card supporting the ISO 14443 and ISO 7816 standards.
Then I stated to look for APDUs for the 14443 standard. I have found this page with a good resource regarding this. However, the problem is the lack of any example APDUs.
There are several questions and answers with APDUs (e.g. this) in the stackoverflow which I tried with no luck.
A brute force attempt revealed the following result with a select command: 6F108408A000000003000000A5049F6501FF9000 which looks like a file control information for the card. But I am struggling on how to interpret this information.
I am also struggling with the flow to work with the card. So far I have understood:

*

*I need to select a file and

*then read from the file or write into the file.

The card is a new one and might not have any other file or information other than the file control information. So which PDU can be used to create a file in a specific location and which PDU can be used to read from that file?

A: The card you are using (SmartCafe dual interface) is a JavaCard.
Your attempted SELECT command must have been something like:

00 A4 04 00 00

or

00 A4 04 00 08 A000000003000000 00

What you see in response to that SELECT command is the FCI of the GlobalPlatform card manager:

6F 10 (FCI template)
  84 08 (Application DF name)
    A000000003000000
  A5 04 (Proprietary data)
    9F65 01 (Maximum length of data field in command message)
      FF (256)
9000 (status=no error)

With that type of card, the concept of files does not really exist by default (so just selecting a file and reading/writing to it won't normally work). Instead this card contains Java-based applications that you can interact with using APDU commands.
So the typical flow to interact with an application would be:

*

*SELECT an application based on its AID (application identifier). In terms of ISO 7816-4, the AID can be seen as a DF name and you issue a SELECT command for that specific DF name.

*Send arbitrary APDUs (according to ISO 7816-4, with either inter-industry or proprietary coding) to the selected application.

*The Java-based (actually JavaCard-based, where JavaCard is an extended sub-set of the Java language) application receives the command, decodes and processes it and generates a response.

*The card sends the application's response back to the reader.
Now there is several possiblities:

*

*The card is pre-prorgammed for a specific purpose and you don't have the keys to access the card manager.
In that case, you would need to know how to interface the application that's on the card. Ideally, the application documentation would show you what AID you need to select and what commands you can send.

*The card is pre-programmed for a specific purpose but you do have the keys to access the card manager -- and, of course, you do not want to use the pre-programmed application but want to use your own application (otherwise the same as in 1. applies).
In that case, you could create your own JavaCard application (or use some ready-made application that fits your purpose) and install it onto the card (e.g. using open tools like GPShell). Then you can access the card using the interface you defined yourself.

*The card is not pre-programmed for a specific purpose and you do have the keys to access the card manager.
In that case, the only option you have is to create your own application as in 2.


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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The NBA Finals has become a three week-long commercial for Milwaukee. The city has drawn attention from tourists, national broadcasters and the NBA commissioner himself.
"It's not just an arena, it's a town hall. This is where graduations, political conventions, concerts, you name it -- it's a gathering place," said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said ahead of Game 4. He called the plaza "quite spectacular."
Steve Baas, senior vice president of governmental affairs for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, said Milwaukee "shows better than it tells."
"It shows us off. It gives independent validation when somebody like the commissioner is talking about how great this city is, and it really is a perception changer nationwide and worldwide," Baas said.
With so much attention on this city, CBS 58 is asking what that could mean for future events like the NBA All-Star Game.
"The NBA would be crazy not to bring the All-Star Game to Milwaukee, and I think the way the Finals have played out here has shown them really what we have to offer -- from the Deer District to the facilities at the Fiserv Forum to the community itself," Baas said.
There's no denying NBA Finals have put Milwaukee on the map.
"It's beyond our wildest dreams in terms of what this has become. We wanted this to be the gathering place and then the place where everyone came together to celebrate," said Dustin Godsey, chief marketing officer of the Milwaukee Bucks and Fiserv Forum.
Claire Koenig, a spokesperson for VISIT Milwaukee, said the city has lobbied for the NBA All-Star Game in past and the issue city leaders faced is the number of 4 and 5-star hotels near the Deer District.
"We simply need more rooms of that caliber to win this particular event. If Milwaukee were to get more of these, we would be excellent contenders to host," Koenig said in an email.
The Bucks aren't speculating about whether the All-Star Game has a future in Milwaukee, but the team said it's setting a template for other markets about what's possible in spaces like the Deer District.
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"I was hoping that I would be able to see it in my lifetime and here we are. It's beautiful," said Lubeck, a Bucks fan from Minneapolis.
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The team and city leaders are happy tourists are coming to see the Bucks' vision become a reality.
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I was pretty fortunate that the weather was not resistant to the outfit I was wearing. Out of the 2 days we were actually downtown, this day was a 50s day which was still pleasant walking around town with just the sweater.
Even later in the day once the temperature began to slowly fall and we walked to Millennium Park, I was still pretty comfortable in this outfit.
I can definitely say, while I love a good big sweater, I am excited for the upcoming months as the temp is rising and I can actually wear lighter clothing. With that, have a good one readers!
Wow, what a great week it has been for me! This past week I spent a couple of days in Chi-Town with the family and I, and I had a blast shopping for Summer, and spending some time in this wonderful city. I am currently on Spring Break, and since we weren't planning on anything too special considering we have a wedding to fund in the upcoming months, we still decided to splurge on the windy city and we definitely don't regret it.
From just cruising down the highway towards the city and the sight of the skyline just made me more eager to step out of Suburbia life and jump right into city life. We got a nice view of the streets as we made our way downtown, and I haven't been in Chicago since the few years past but I became familiar again quite quickly.
Our first stop was at Whole Foods, an organic food store, I know many West-Michiganders are envious of it's existence elsewhere. Previously to this visit, I had never been to one and boy I was missing out. Amused by all of the food you could by, my mission was to find Guayaki Yerba Mate, a drink I have known about and have always been curious to taste. Overall this store was just pleasant.
After a little bit of shopping for treats, we checked in at the Fairfield Inn & Sweets, which I instantly loved when walking into a contemporary decorated lobby, which followed to the rooms. While our beds were a little small, it was definitely worth it considering how close we were to the Magnificent Mile.
After settling in, we made our way up Michigan Ave, window shopping and making reminders to go back and shop at the specific stores we saw. We were not in the mood to stop due to our hunger, which after the 3 hour drive was needed. We stopped at Ginos East for a slice of true Chicago Style pizza. While the food was amazing, the fact you could write on practically anything, made this restaurant even more fun!
One of my favorite stops on our short trip to the city was at Millennium Park, where we got to experience the "Cloud Gate" or many just know it as "The Bean." This giant curved mirror basically is going to automatically propel you to take multiple pictures of yourself from every angle of the bean. I literally spent probably five minutes just staring at the curved skyline reflected off the bean. Definitely recommend you stop by even just to snap one shot on your way down there.
I also wrote a small Love Letter To The City on my Tumblr, a few hours after I left Chicago, check it out!


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Georgia Vs. South Carolina: Mark Richt's Seat Scalding After Booster Voices 'Concerns'
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The Georgia Bulldogs, and especially Mark Richt, are under significant pressure this week against the South Carolina Gamecocks. This is not news to you. An 0-2 start wouldn't necessarily kill the season, as the rest of the schedule lines up nicely, but Dawg Nation is already at the end of its rope after a decisive loss to the Boise St. Broncos, a program with nowhere near the financial and recruiting advantages (not to mention home field advantages) of Georgia.
Helpfully, the boosters have decided to make sure Richt, God and everybody else knows they aren't happy:
Tommy Lawhorne, a board member from Columbus, spoke up, and looked at athletic director Greg McGarity, who was sitting next to Adams.
"There are many of us who are really concerned about the status of the football program," Lawhorne said. "Yet we have confidence in Greg McGarity to get us to where we want to be."
Board member Bob Bishop then chimed in.
"I'll echo that," he said.
Note he said "McGarity" there, not "Richt." And then the dreaded vote of confidence. Richt knows the program is more important than his own job, and he's publicly adamant against calling the game a must-win. But those hot seat rumors that have been simmering for months now have led to a virtual contract year for Richt.
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TITLE: Night Terrors
PARING: S/X
WARNING: m/m sexual activity. Adult language. Story is generally
not worksafe.
SUMMARY: 10 Years after the fall of Sunnydale, Xander has
distanced himself from his past life until a demon forces him to look
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Xander woke up slowly. It didn't take a mental stretch to figure
out that he was on the sofa just outside his office at the club. It
also didn't take a genius to recognize the pounding headache as the
remnants of a hell of a drunk.
Slowly, he attempted to roll over on his side to begin to asses his situation.
When he did, the stiff crustiness inside his trousers, tugged painfully
at the thick patch of hair around his stale feeling cock. He was a man.
He knew instantly what that meant.
Flopping back down, Xander knew there was only so much energy
in his body. His efforts would have to be either mental or physical but
couldn't be both. He rubbed this fingertips in circles over his temples
as his brain back tracked to try and fill in the missing hours of
last evening.
He remembered coming to the club. When he thought about the sex
he vaguely recalled having a grope-'n-cum with a Spike lookalike.
It was a very satisfying.......'Uh oh. Wait a minute' Xander's
memory slipped a small tid bit into his recollection.
Instantly he knew why his partner had reminded him so much of his old
fantasy and nemesis, Spike.
"Oh, fuck. It was Spike.'
Xander groaned and held a small square throw pillow over his face in
embarrassment. He experimentally poked at his other emotions.
Regret? Um, huh. Not so much. Anger? Shame? Horror?
Actually, there seemed to be a shortage of all these. Vampire or
human, Xander had never been a speciesist and now that he was
beginning to recall the facts of his life, he remembered he liked Spike.
They had stood together through good times and bad. They had
fought the good fight and Spike had given his life for humanity.
You had to like a guy that was willing to do that.
So, he had been in his office, Spike barged in, got him drunk and got
him off. Xander frowned. Seemed like there should be more to the
whole scenario than that. It felt like something was missing.
Xander lowered the pillow and tried to ignore the stab of pain that
shot through his head as the light again hit his eyes.
What had they been talking about? What was.........KIM!
"Fuck!"
Xander tossed the pillow aside and threw his feet off the couch.
He immediately jumped up and rushed to his desk for his cell phone.
Hit hit speed dial and squeezed his eyes shut both in pain and prayer
that Kim answered and was all right.
"Hello?"
"Kim? Oh Thank God! Kim where....."
"No, Xander, this is Travis, Kim's roommate. He never came home
yesterday. I have been going crazy here. I tried to call your apartment
but there was no answer. You don't know where he is?"
"No, Travis I'm at the club. I haven't seen him since he left here.
He never came in to work last night."
"Jesus, Xan. You don't think...."
"NO. Don't even think it. Look, Travis, call the police and file a missing
person's report. I think I may know someone who can help. I'll
keep in touch. If you hear from him or.........just call me o.k?"
Travis agreed and Xander's thumb hit the "end" button. Immediately,
he grabbed the card off his desk and dialed. Just when he was beginning
to think Spike wouldn't answer......
"Talk to me"
Xander blinked. Only Spike would answer the phone like that.
Surprisingly, it gave him a feeling of reassurance.
"Spike, it's Xander."
"Ah, yes, and now you want to call and tell me what a pervert I am.
Right? Well let me tell you something, you started it so don't even....."
"No, Spike, it was great. No problemo. Listen, that's not why I called.
You were right. Kim has gone missing. I'm going to go home to shower
and change. I know it isn't sunset yet so meet me there in an hour."
Spike grinned, thinking. 'Well that was just too easy.'
Giles had called Angel just 10 minutes ago and that told him to grab
Xander as soon as the sun went down and somehow get him to the
Council house. Angel had put Spike on the case, passing on the address.
He had no sooner jotted down the street directions and started to formulate an
elaborate plan for kidnapping Xander when the prospective victim himself
phoned. He actually would have preferred the stalking, sneak attack and
capture but..........
'Wait a minute" His brain hiccuped. 'It was great'?
"Sure, Pet. I'll be there in a tic. You get all cleaned up. Wouldn't
want you all dry, itchy and flaky now would we?"
"You're a fuckin' perv, Spike. Got a pencil? Here's the address...."
Spike paid no attention. He already knew where Xander lived.
Still, explaining that would only cause problems so he waited till he
finished, paused and ended the call with a "got it. See you then."
Spike had taken a hot shower, refused to blow his sire, dressed,
skirted Angel's groping hands, and gulped down two pints of
rich red human before arguing that no, he would not bend over
for a quicky.
Spike pulled the BMW up to the curb and slid out. He strode up to
the door and raised his fist to pound. Before he got the chance, it
was jerked open and he was face to face with a damp, drippy
"Come on in, Spike."
Spike nodded. It was said in the same manner that would be used on
anyone arriving at your door. Xander's tone held no inflection that it
was done to give a demon permission to enter.
Spike liked that. Very much.
What he saw inside, he liked even more.
Xander stood, drying his hair with one towel while another rode low
wrapped around his hips.
"Sorry I'm running a bit late. I made some calls, friends, places Kim
goes but, no luck. Sit down, I'll get dressed and be right out."
Spike made no attempt to be low key or inconspicuous in this oogling.
He grinned, sucked his teeth and slowly prowled, making a complete
circle around the human's body.
"Well, well, well, look at you. Been workin' out have we? Arms like
steel, flat stomach, nice round bubble butt. Bet you've made a bloke
or two happy flexin' them cheeks 'aven't ya?"
Xander's arms dropped to his sides. He still held the damp towel in
his hand and his hair stood up in wild wet humps. He refused to allow
himself to be flattered or encouraged by the sexy vampires words.
They had other, more important things on the table today.
"Jesus, Spike, what are you, 13 years old? That sounds like the cheesy
dialog to a 70's porno flick, and yes, I'm a man, I've seen a few."
Spike laughed and dropped down on the black leather sofa. He wasn't
insulted and he wasn't put off. He knew it was only a matter of time
before that bubble butt would be clamped around him.
"Yeah, you're right. Not like we needed much conversation last night,
is it?"
Spike smirked and kept his attention locked on a fascinating piece of lint
stuck to his tee.
Xander flinched. Due to the alcohol, he still couldn't recall the exact
particulars of their encounter in the club, he just knew he had gotten off.
Monumentally.
He hoped to God he hadn't said it. No, he was sure if he had, Spike
would be throwing it in his face. Besides, if they were too drunk to
get undressed, he was too drunk to ask.
Xander casually resumed the fluff drying to his hair.
"Say, Spike, speaking of conversation, I didn't say anything odd last night,
did I? I mean when we, whatever, did I.......um.....shit, never mind.
Look I'll be dressed and ready in 5 minutes. I hope you've got some
ideas about finding Kim."
Xander suddenly turned to rush off. Not out of fear of Spike's answer. Not
because the evening cool air was causing goose bumps all over his damp
body, although it was. No, Xander knew it was time to go when it dawned
on him that he was stark naked, except for the towel that now seemed
very small, Spike was sexy as hell, and Xander's cock had started filling
and rising like a helium balloon in the Macy's Day parade.
It was all Spike could do to contain himself as the man rushed off smelling
of thick, rich pheromones.
"Now who's 13?" He chuckled quietly.
If nothing else over the past ten years, Spike had learned patience.
He could wait. When the time was right he would reach into his
back pocket and whip out that line of "can I call you Spike and
bite you?" THAT, he thought, was a fucking classic.
But not yet. First he wanted rid of the distractions of a pesky demon, a
missing friend, the arrival of a gaggle of unwanted Scoobies, and the
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Carroll County has five confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) as of noon March 30, according to Kelly Englehart, director of nursing at the Carroll County General Health District.
Englehart said there are three cases from Harrison Twp. one from Rose and one from Center.
"It is critical that residents stay at home," Englehart stated. "Now is the time we flatten the curve. All five of the county cases have been hospitalized. Everyone is taking a risk by going out at this time."
The department is also asking businesses to order the Ohio Department of Health's order to businesses not deemed "essential" to close during the period designated by Governor Mike DeWine.
"Most Carroll County businesses are complying," she said. Manufacturing businesses are the ones tending to find loop holes in the order."
The department is investigating complaints received about non-essential businesses that remain open. If they are deemed non-essential, the complaint can be turned over to the prosecuting attorney for prosecution.
Any business owner with questions on what businesses are considered essential and permitted to continue to operate, can call the health department at 330-627-4866, extension 1530, for information.
County officials who make up the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Team are working to coordinate services for county residents and make information available to those who need it.
Following is the information.
Department of Job and Family Services (DJFS)
Kate Offenberger, DJFS director, noted the department of protective services continues to work around the clock, as required by law.
As much as possible, public assistance requests and meetings are done by videoconference while employees work from home. The lobby of the office, located on E. Main St., remains open where information on programs is available. Limited staff is available onsite.
For information on benefits, residents can call 1-844-640-6446 or visit benefits.ohio.gov. Information can also be emailed to carrollcountydjfs@gmail.com.
The resource room, where residents can file for unemployment benefits, remains open with four available computers. The site is wiped down after each visitor leaves. She noted the mass layoff claim number residents should use when filing is 2000180, which will bypass the one-week waiting period for benefits to begin. Residents can also call 1-877-644-6562 Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Residents in need of services can dial 211 for assistance. The caller should state their name and need and the operator will put them in touch with a service to meet that need.
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Tonya Myers, director of the Senior Friendship Center, which delivers meals on wheels, said her employees and volunteers are doing grocery shopping for those who can't do it on their own as well as making deliveries.
Those who would like to use the service should call 330-627-7017.
The center continues to provide grab-and-go meals for seniors at the center, located at the county fairgrounds, for seniors. To order a meal, seniors should call the center by 9 a.m. each day. Meals are ready at 10:30 a.m. She also plans to continue delivering meals through the meals on wheels program as long as possible.
Ohler noted hours the courthouse were reduced March 26. Hours include:
Monday and Friday: 9 a.m. to noon.
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The courthouse will be open Tuesday through Friday from 8-9 a.m. for seniors over the age of 65 and others with a compromised immune system or who are handicapped.
Times may change, according to orders issued by Governor Mike DeWine.
Economic Development Director Chris Mondranski noted a list of resources available to businesses affected by coronavirus will be posted on the county's website, carrollcountyohio.us under the economic development tag. He asked businesses experiencing an increase or decrease in employees to share that information with him by sending an email to cmodranski@carrollcountyoh.us.
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As the famed inventor, philosopher, and scientist Sir Isaac Newton once so astutely stated "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." I for one can recall no more humble or well cited piece of innovative ideology.
History is an interesting conundrum. Problems, pieces and puzzles of past often appear over and over throughout the age. Solutions sought after are recall, ideas elaborated upon and all in all our intellect as a species builds as a sum of our past and present experiences, innovations and of course creativity.
Recently upon reading Robert Greene's brilliant book Mastery on making passion and purpose into a lifelong pursuit of success and happiness I have found myself once more obsessed with the great Leonardo da Vinci. His works, creations and ideas stand out as so vastly far ahead of his time it takes on a truly spectacular scope. Yet amazingness such as this is anything but impossible. Other inspirational inventors and creators have carried humanity forward into the future with world altering innovations and ideas that changed everything about our lives.
Just as hikers helped by trail markers and other guides to adventure let us look to these great thinkers for guidance. While we may not have the superhuman IQs of many makers of this world we can learn lessons and become inspired by the amazing inventions, methods and madness many of history's mighty makers.
In the history of mankind I challenge thy to find any with remotely similar skill sets to our Italian Renaissance man. It cannot be done.
Leonardo was the true jack of all trades in the most powerful sense of the word. His interests and immense talents ranged from art and architecture, music and writing to math, engineering and of course anatomy. Simply put Leonardo is the epitome of mankind. This mastery stems from his insatiable curiosity into the nature of things.
As a boy out of wedlock in an age of religious fervor da Vinci grew, matured and learned in methods much unaccustomed to the era. As an apprentice informally studying in his spare time Leonardo rapidly gained renown with his naturally inspired artistic renditions. From wandering forests, dissecting bodies and delving into the nature of all things Leonardo sought to understand. Out of this need to create and understand many of history's greatest works such as the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the Vitruvian Man were all purposefully produced.
Art was not all that enraptured Leonardo however. In spite his accomplishments as a painter he also is attributed with many otherworldly inventions well beyond his era. From designs for modern battlefield tanks, his infamous helicopter, robotic carts and the world's first scuba suit it is impossible to grasp the depths of genius possessed by our Renaissance man.
All in all Leonardo da Vinci's insatiably curiosity into the way of the world is the source of all his amazing success and something inventors of our modern era must understand in order to innovate.
As the inspiration for today's most advanced electric cars it is critical to understand the man behind the mask that is Nikola Tesla. Unfortunately few understand the true brilliance of this Serbian-American inventor and the depths to which his brain built upon and transformed modern life.
Born in the mid 19th century Tesla was in all regards a genius of electrical and mechanical machinations. From humble beginnings to a partnership with Thomas Edison, Tesla acted as a man ahead of his time.
After quickly leaving the employ of Edison over disputes Tesla tried again and again to change the world with radical ideas resulted in some today's most important inventions. From AC current motors and generators, his famed Tesla coil, and the earliest attempts to build an internet of information and electricity Nikola pushed the boundaries on what the public would and could believe.
Perhaps however our Tesla is most famous from his famed experiments in Colorado Springs(as seen in the amazingly awesome movie the Prestige) however. While working in solidarity and isolation from his rival Edison, Tesla experimented with truly revolutionary ideas such as man-made lightning, wireless electricity, and alien communication. Although fringe science seemed his avenue of attack many of his ideas ultimately proved successful and if not for lack of funding and support would see the light of day.
The largest takeaway Tesla offers is to screw the status quo. People may believe you crazy but looking to the future for inspiration is the ultimate form of innovation.
Though vilified in the eyes of Tesla it is truly remarkable the things made and accomplished by the famed Thomas Edison. In addition to the oft cited invention of the modern electric light bulb he strayed far further and deserves much greater recognition than recent memory allows.
From his early days as a somewhat deaf telegraph operator Edison studied the nature of electricity and sought to turn this powerful force into the fuel for another amazing revolution in mankind. From the innovation factory that represented Edison's teams and the disciplined fervor in which our creator ran his operation an unthinkable amount of patented products poured out the doors. With stock tickers, music recorders, motion picture cameras, power distribution and the first modern voting system his enterprises are responsible for transforming America and the world.
As one of the most prolific inventors and businessmen of this or any era in history much is to be learned from Edison. Chief among the lessons learned when exploring this empire of innovation and electrical creation is in building business basis into all that is made. In all his creations capitalism was the driving force and this monetary mission is important to consider when creating crazily futuristic folly and hoping to help the world.
Although invention and innovation seem such modern phenomenon the amazing creations of men and women of intellect are by no means a product of only our era. Throughout history humans have sought to improve and change the world to suit their needs. This is no more obvious than with the great Greek mathematician and scientist Archimedes.
Made famous for his famed Death Ray capable of destroying many an advancing wave of ships he is the last of the great Greek heroes. With wide ranging innovations in use to this day Archimedes holds a place in the hearts of inventors everywhere.
Though little is known of this man of antiquity he is credited with invention of the Archimedes screw, the principles of buoyancy and as an inspiration to the great Galileo.
Dedicated to mathematics to the very end.
In a story much like many other overly accomplished individuals our young Franklin lived an extremely inquisitive life. With a natural gift for language and an understanding of complex societal issues even as a child Franklin apprenticed in his brother's print shop. Here he mastered the arts of written word while learning firsthand the effects machines could facilitate on printing, production and design.
Throughout his life these lessons would propel young Benjamin through a solidly successful career path as he purchased a newspaper, proceeded into politics and perused the nature of the universe in his spare time. In a life of adventure best known for his role in the rebellion against the British and discovering the true nature lightning and electricity it can most certainly be said Franklin was also a formidable inventor in his own right.
As a man of necessity with an amazingly long lifespan of 84 years Franklin would encounter more than his share of issues and uncertainties which his constantly exploring mind would voraciously tackle. To this man we owe a debt of gratitude in the form of bi-focal lenses as aging eyes need help and scuba fins for which swimming is so superbly simplified. In addition his work brought him to the forefront of thought concerning a great many ideas such as refrigeration and kite surfing of all things.
As is evidenced by the life of Ben Franklin it is often a travesty to focus on only one arena of influence. Many polymaths and extremely intrigued individuals must explore as interests flow and find freedom in fixing much.
Although this world renowned Scottish scientist holds fame for his incredibly transformative technological creation of the telephone he accomplished so much more as well. Growing up as the child of a deaf mother, Bell was instantly exposed to the life and lessons of disability. Despite his mother's disadvantage in the world the woman worked to become a beyond accomplished pianist and push self-sufficiency upon her children at a young age.
Seeing struggles and successes of his mother pushed Alexander into the arena of hearing aids in efforts to help people punished by nature's natural selection. As a result of this deep desire to understand and alleviate issues and his work teaching deaf individuals his research culminated in the creation of a lifetime, the telephone. This invention would transform life and make Bell financially free of obligation.
In this Bell began more research into other interesting areas and ultimately invented the metal detector, hydrofoil watercraft, and even entered the arena of aeronautics in which he was ultimately unsuccessful.
With successes, failures and frequent attempts to change the status quo the take away idea truly encompassing Bell's life is that of overcoming obstacles. In spite of his wife's and his mother's unfortunate deafness Bell failed to see these as inherent weaknesses and instead dedicated himself to solving complex societal problems.
As many may know these simple brothers from the great state of North Carolina are the pioneers of flight. Their efforts ultimately led to the first ever manned, powered flight aircraft and started a revolution in airfare that to this day defines much of humanity.
But before entering the public eye and innovating travel for all these two were simple print shop and bicycle enthusiasts. Unlike many many accomplished inventors and engineers throughout the world working to achieve flight the Wright brothers did not have the expertise or support to steal the limelight. Instead they had an even more important resource….passion. Pushed not by fame, fortune or political power the Wright brothers managed to overcome all obstacles and in 1903 achieve the impossible.
I love this story as it is the true tale of outside innovation. Unlike most engineers focusing on stability of the aircraft in achieving flight the brothers believe riders and not machines made the world work. As such in the spirit of the lowly bicycle the Wright brothers based their designs and aeronautical research and ultimately won the race.
Their story shares the importance of untempered excitement in solving problems. Inspired to succeed and unhampered by traditional troubles the Wright brothers shed convention and made the world much smaller in the process.
Though many believe the cream of the crop always rise to the top it is simply incorrect when examining the amazing and unknown life of Walter Hunt. This is a travesty which feels truly terrible to me and as such I must share the story of this prolific innovator of the early 19th century.
Although little is known about the life of Hunt as a result of his less than spectacular renown it is known many many amazingly important inventions we all hold dear are untold results of his ever active brain.
Hunt's more earth shattering innovations include the safety pin, sewing machine and fountain pen which would all transform home life as we know it. Despite the extreme profitability of these products in the coming eras Hunt would never receive the wealth he deserved due to a mistrust of patents and their power to push hardworking employees out of jobs. As such his inventions were stolen and sold for unearthly profits and our ideator left with nothing.
As if these creations weren't colossal enough Walter Hunt is also acknowledged as the man behind the early repeating rifles, the ice boat and modern street sweepers. How creations such as these escaped the fame and fortune of the time is beyond me but Hunt proves that modest means and humble innovation might not produce powerful profits but certainly have the influence to alter the world.
To this day Henry Ford hangs in the pinnacles of greatness and is known by all to be the inventor of the automobile and the man who radicalized rapid transit. Although almost true Ford in fact never invented but rather popularized the already created car.
So how does a Michigan boy unwilling to be a farmer become one of the best known businessmen and innovators of all time? The answer of course lies in victory. With the victor goes the spoils and for Ford his vision was always to create a compact horseless carriage. And even at that Ford failed many times. It was simply economically infeasible to create mass market automobiles accessible to everyday owners.
Henry Ford's fame lies not in invention in its typical sense but in the power of purpose his mind was able to conceive. Seeing the shortcomings of his previous companies Ford found a fatal flaw in the manufacturing process. Just as capitalism capitalizes on specialization Ford believed these principles of purpose could be applied to humans as well. Rather than an individual solely responsible for an entire car Henry Ford revolutionized the assembly line. Reconfiguring factories to make men perform repetitive tasks transformed production severely reduced assembly times and radically reduced prices on almost all things.
In a sense Henry Ford created the second Industrial Revolution with simple ingenuity and dogged determination to see success in his endeavors. Sometimes looking at the problem in a new light is the lever to untold innovation.
As one of the great creators and businessmen of an era Westinghouse is one of the modern industrial fathers of America. His work with railroads, electricity and business empires were an extremely influential piece of the puzzle as the United States explosively grew and innovated during the time.
Westinghouse originally grew up the son of a machine shop mechanic and quickly learned his way around machines and electricity helping pops run the business. After a brief stint in the Civil War Westinghouse left the army and instead focused his impressive talents on creation. At the age of only 19 he would revolutionize power distribution with the invention of the transformer to allow long distance AC power transmission, enabling the power stations of today and the trains of Westinghouse's visions.
In following with an inherent obsession with trains Westinghouse also created the modern airbrake, rotary steam engine and many subsequent creations which allowed him to build a megalithic business around the railroads and gain great repute.
Like many of our list he remained curious and productive through to the end of his life and in his later years would experiment with and create modern shock absorbers for the newly introduced automobile and many other small inventions in line with his awesome interest in transportation.
I hope you guys enjoyed this unexpected glimpse into the lives of some of history's most amazing innovators of all time. These accomplished individuals and so many more challenge my views of the world and force self-reflection so often important in understanding and creating complex new products.
But maybe that is just me. Did you guys like looking into this? Have heroes of the past helped push you forward into your own futures? And most important of all who did I forget to put on this prolific list of inventors? Surely some trouble can be stirred up.
Lastly guys this article took a ton of time to write, research and make as awesome as possible. If it helped you in your own entrepreneurial journey take the time to share it. Together our efforts impact so many more and creativity is a complex process from which we all win.


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The National Student Survey 2019
BA English at City is ranked joint 1st in the UK, and ahead of any other English programme in London, for student satisfaction.
100% of our graduates are satisfied with their degree
100% of our graduates think we make the subject interesting
100% agree that we value their views about the course
100% agree that academic staff are good at explaining things
100% agree it is easy to contact academic staff.
Source: National Student Survey 2019
The Department of English at City boasts a research-driven environment for the study and practice of the English Language, alongside the UK's largest Creative Writing Masters programme.
The Department of English is home to our undergraduate English programme, now in its third year, as well as popular and long established MA programmes in Publishing and Creative Writing.
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Our Creative Writing MFA allows you to develop your creative writing skills through guided completion of a full length work in your chosen genre while enhancing you career prospects in the field of writing. You will gain a deep understanding of your craft and will be able to reflect critically upon your stylistic and formal decisions and situate them in their cultural and literary contexts. You will acquire a detailed knowledge of the aspects of being a professional writer and will develop a comprehensive understanding of the business of writing.
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This programme is perfect for graduates who now want to forge a career in the global publishing industry. Students arrive with degrees in a wide range of humanities, social science, business, and science subjects, and come from all over the world. We enjoy fantastic links to commercial publishers in London from across the full range publishing sectors. The MA seeks to provide students with a practical understanding of how 21st century publishing works in an increasingly globalised, fast-changing and often digital markets.
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Our Publishing MA is perfect for graduates with an interest in a career in the publishing industry. Students arrive with degrees in a wide range of humanities, social science, business, and science subjects, and from all over the world. The programme enjoys fantastic links to many different commercial publishers in London from across the full range publishing sectors. The programme seeks to provide students with a practical understanding of how 21st century publishing works, and pays particular attention to issues of innovation and digitisation in publishing.
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Dr Patrick Brindle is Programme Director for MAs in Publishing, International Publishing, and Creative Writing & Publishing. Prior to joining City Patrick worked in academic publishing, including stints as a commissioning editor for Oxford University Press and Publisher for Research Methods at SAGE.
At City, Patrick teaches Digital Publishing, Research Methods, and Designing Interactive Media.
Patrick's research interests lie in the overlapping worlds of scholarly communication, learning and political economy.
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Dr Dominic Davies joined City as a Lecturer in English in April 2018. Prior to that, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil. His research focuses on the broad themes of colonial and postcolonial literature; urban cultural studies; and the relationship between urban infrastructure, the built environment and literary and visual cultures.
He is the author of a number of book chapters, articles, reviews and online pieces relating to these interests. His first book is Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (Peter Lang, 2017) and his second is Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Routledge, 2019). He is also the co-editor of Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2018).
Dr Louisa Egbunike
Dr. Louisa Uchum Egbunike is a lecturer in English at City, University of London. She has previously worked at Manchester Metropolitan University, SOAS and Goldsmiths, University of London. Louisa completed her PhD in African literature at SOAS, University of London, where she has also lectured in contemporary African literature. In 2016 she was selected as one of the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research council's 'New Generation Thinkers' which has seen her create and present content for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Arts Online.
Dr. Hetta Howes
Dr. Hetta Howes started as a lecturer at City in 2017, and is teaching on the new BA in English. After studying for her BA and MPhil at the University of Cambridge, she joined Queen Mary in 2012 to begin her doctoral thesis. The project, supervised by Professor Julia Boffey and Dr Alfred Hiatt, examines the role of water as a literary metaphor in late-medieval devotional prose, with a special emphasis on writings for and by women. She is currently turning this thesis into a monograph: 'Transforming Waters in Medieval Devotional Literature.'
She has published on tropes of crying and cleansing in Aelred of Rievaulx's spiritual treatise A Rule of Life for a Recluse and on the role of sight in fourteenth-century alliterative verse. She contributes regularly to the Year's Work in English Studies, surveying current criticism on medieval lyrics, and has a book chapter forthcoming on blood and shame in a Middle English Passion lyric. She is one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers for 2017/18 and is committed to communicating her research to a wider audience, contributing regularly to BBC3's Free Thinking, the Times Literary Supplement, Times Higher Education and BBC History.
Dr. Patricia Moran
Dr. Patricia Moran's research in recent years brings together her interests in psychology, narrative and female embodiment to show affect is central to an understanding of female development and female subjectivity. This interest has shaped the chapters she has contributed to her co-edited books The Female Face of Shame (Indiana University Press, 2013) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches (Edinburgh University Press, 2015).
In addition, Patricia has published extensively on Modernist women writers, including two monographs — Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and the Aesthetics of Trauma (Palgrave, 2007) and Word of Mouth: Body/Language in Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf (University of Virginia Press, 1996). Patricia is currently completing a book that focuses on the way in which manic-depressive illness shaped British writer Antonia White's narratives of self.
Dr Edward Paleit
Dr Edward Paleit runs the BA English programme at City, University of London, which he joined from the University of Exeter in September 2017. He currently teaches the second-year core module 'Shakespeare' and is involved in undergraduate recruitment and routes to graduate employability.
Dr. Minna Vuolelainen
Dr. Minna Vuolelainen joined City in August 2016 and teaches on the BA English programme. Before joining City, she worked at Edge Hill University, Birkbeck and the University of Derby. Her teaching is underpinned by a strong commitment of interdisciplinarity, derived from her past studies and ongoing research.
Minna's primary research interests lie in fin-de-siècle popular and print culture and publishing history (c. 1880-1920), genre studies (particularly gothic and crime), London literatures, spatial theory, and the medical humanities; twentieth-century conflict literature is a significant secondary interest. Recent publications include a monograph on popular author Richard Marsh (University of Wales Press, 2015), a co-edited collection of essays on the Italian Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (Palgrave, 2015), and a critical edition of Marsh's Judith Lee detective stories (Valancourt, 2016). She is currently working on a co-edited essay collection on Marsh and a monograph on Thomas Hardy and the gothic.
Dr Julie Wheelwright
Dr. Julie Wheelwright has been the programme director of the MA creative writing (non-fiction) since 2007.
An award-winning writer, her books include The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage, which was translated into five languages, and Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness. Her biography of her ancestor, Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright, Puritan Child, Native Daughter, Mother Superior, was published in 2011 by HarperCollins Canada.
MA Creative Writing and Publishing
Principal Lecturers
Lisa O'Donnell has been teaching on the programme since 2016. She won The Orange Prize for New Screenwriters with her screenplay The Wedding Gift in 2000. She was also nominated for the Dennis Potter New Writers Award in the same year. She worked in television for several years and was a writer on teen soap Hollyoaks. In 2013 she won The Commonwealth Book Award for her best-selling novel The Death of Bees, and an ALEX Award in 2014 presented by the American Library Association for Best YA Fiction. Her second novel Closed Doors was published in the US, Germany and the UK in 2014, which she has also adapted for the screen. Lisa is working on her third noveel funded by Creative Scotland and is currently writing up her PhD with a focus on truth in fiction and identity of the author.
Tutors and Guest Mentors
Keren David is a journalist and YA star who has been shortlisted for The Bookseller's YA Book Prize, the UKLA award and the Branford Boase Award, and nominated four times for the Carnegie Prize. Keren started out in journalism as a teenage messenger, she trained as a reporter, and then later worked for many national papers before moving to Amsterdam with her family where she studied art history, learned to cycle and failed to learn Dutch. In 2007 she returned to London, and took a creative writing evening class at City University. Her first book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plot-planning exercise on the course. Her most recent YA novel, The Liar's Handbook, inspired by recent real-life cases of women deceived into relationships with undercover policemen was published in 2016.
Jeremy Page's first novel, Salt (Penguin, 2007), was set among the saltmarshes of North Norfolk, where I grew up, and the fens near the Wash. His second, The Wake (Penguin, 2009), is set in the estuaries of East Anglia and the North Sea itself, where its protagonist, Guy, takes his barge out to sea in an attempt to reinvent his life. Salt was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Jelf Award and The Wake won the prize for fiction at the East Anglian book awards and was shortlisted for the New Angle Prize. His third novel, The Collector of Lost Things, was published by Little, Brown in 2013. It's the story of a collector travelling to the Arctic in 1845, trying to find evidence of a bird that became extinct a year before. Jeremy has also worked in the UK film and TV industry for nearly twenty years, as a script editor for the BBC, Channel 4 and Film Four.
Natasha Pulley studied English Literature at Oxford University. After working as a bookseller, then at Cambridge University Press as a publishing assistant in the astronomy and maths departments, she did the Creative Writing MA at UEA. She has recently returned from Tokyo, where she lived for nineteen months on a scholarship from the Daiwa Anglo–Japanese Foundation. Her debut, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, is a historical fantasy thriller set in atmospheric, smoggy Victorian London and Japan. Her forthcoming novel, The Bedlam Stacks is published by Bloomsbury in 2017.
MA Publishing and International Publishing
Laura di Giuseppe
Mary Ann Kernan
Taught modules on the MA in Publishing and the MA in International Publishing are supported each year by a range of exciting and experienced visiting speakers and guest lecturers from across the publishing industry. In 2016 and 2017 these have included:
Nicola Barr, Literary agent at Greene & Heaton
Sarah Bell, Operations Director, The Economist
Jason Bartholomew, Rights Director, Hodder & Stoughton
Richard Charkin, President of the International Publishers Association and Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing
Jonathan Crowe, Editor in Chief for Natural and Social Sciences, Oxford University Press
Anna Faherty, Curator, The Reading Room
Andrew Franklin, Founder and Managing Director of Profile Books
Eric Huang, Development Director, Made in Me
Azar Hussain, Head of Data, Faber & Faber
Caroline Kimbell, Associate Director of Licensing and Digitisation, Senate House
Stephanie Milner, Commissioning Editor, Pavilion Books
Sibeal Pounder, author of The Witch Wars children's book series
Emma Smith, Commissioning Editor at Orion
Martin Sugden, Head of Open Access Marketing at Taylor & Francis
Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740–1832 and Tides of War. A novel of the Peninsula War
Andrew Welham, CEO, Octopus Publishing Group, Hachette
Grace Whooley, Senior Marketing Manager at Bloomsbury Children's Books
Find below some of our more recent student successes
Literary Novels: students now published
1 in 6 of our students becomes a published novelist. Here are some of out most recent:
Eli Goldstone graduated in 2015. She is the current Prose Editor at Cadaverine Magazine. Her debut novel, Strange Heart Beating, is published by Granta in 2017. A darkly funny and seductive novel that confronts the black undercurrent of possession inherent in love, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing even those dearest to us, Strange Heart Beating is a breath-taking debut from an author whose vision is both acerbic and tender.
Helen Donohoe graduated in 2014. She studied politics and government at Manchester University and the LSE. She has twenty years' experience as a campaigner, lobbyist, volunteer and writer. Her written work has ranged from peer-reviewed papers through to blogs for The Huffington Post and New Statesman. Birdy Flynn is published by OneWorld in 2017.
Hannah Kohler graduated in 2012. The Outside Lands was published by Picador in the UK and St. Martin's in the US in February 2016. Joshua Ferris said: "Kohler is particularly good on the ethical ambiguities among men during wartime, puncturing some of our most sacred bromides regarding virtue, brotherhood, and mission. She reimagines the Vietnam War and its misbegotten aims as a travesty of the family, beautifully articulating the wider sacrifices too often ignored."
Jem Lester graduated in 2011 and won the PFD Prize. Shtum was published by Orion in Spring 2016. Shtum is a tragi-comic story about a father struggling to cope with his severely autistic 10-year-old son while he and his wife are separating. His editor says: "When I finished reading Shtum for the first time, I just couldn't stop thinking about it. It's illuminating about the joys, frustrations and day-to-day slog of having an autistic child. It's heart-breaking in places, but tempered with real lightness and laugh-out-loud humour."
Hannah Michell graduated in 2010. The Defections was published by Quercus in 2014. David Peace said: "A book of betrayals and borders, real and imagined, and of deceptions and desires, which beautifully and dramatically evokes the spectres of Korea's past and the divisions of its present in ways reminiscent of Graham Greene's The Quiet American or Ian McEwan's The Innocent." She now teaches at Berkeley.
Iman Verjee graduated in 2012 and won the PFD Prize. Her first novel, In Between Dreams, was published in 2014 by OneWorld. Margaux Fragoso, author of Tiger, Tiger said "Lyrically written, emotionally explosive, the story of Frances is one that will continue to haunt the reader's thoughts long after the last page is finished... an astonishing and artful debut by an unusually gifted young writer." Her second novel, Who Will Catch Us As We Fall was published in 2016.
Crime Novels: students now published
We are delighted to already have several published students on the crime writing MA, despite only having three lots of graduates to date! These include:
Rod Reynolds graduated in 2014. He was born in London and, after a successful career in advertising, working as a media buyer, he decided to get serious about writing. His first novel, The Dark Inside, was published by Faber in 2015. The sequel, Black Night Falling, followed in August 2016. Contact him on Twitter: @Rod_WR
David Young (winner of the CWA Historical Dagger) graduated in 2014. Temporary jobs cleaning ferry toilets and driving a butcher's van were followed by a career in journalism, finally leading teams for the World Service radio and World TV. Stasi Child is the first of three books in the Oberleutnant Karin Müller series – set in 1970s communist East Germany – bought by the UK arm of Swedish publisher Bonnier by former Quercus CEO Mark Smith. It reached the top 5 bestsellers on Amazon Kindle, was number one bestseller in Amazon's Historical Fiction chart, and has been optioned for TV by Euston Films.
Steph Broadribb/ Stephanie Marland graduated in 2014. She was born in Birmingham and grew up in Buckinghamshire. Most of her working life has been spent between the UK and USA. As her alter ego - Crime Thriller Girl - she indulges her love of all things crime fiction by blogging at www.crimethrillergirl.com. She trained as a bounty hunter in California.
Fran Dorricott - coming soon
Laura Shepherd-Robinson - coming soon
Chris McGeorge - coming soon
Other students are working with agents and we look forward to seeing their work in print soon.
Narrative non-fiction: students now published
Clifford Thompson is a journalist and writer. He has worked in television news for more than twenty years and will see his first book published in September 2017. He's a staff journalist with BBC News covering national and international stories. He's worked for Newsnight on BBC Two, BBC News 24, and BBC One's Breakfast programme.
Falling Through Fire is a memoir published by Mirror Books about his time, first as a firefighter, then as a journalist working on major disasters including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Paddington train crash.
Aaron Eske works for a US communications firm that specializes in non-profits. He was Communications Director for Angelina Jolie's orphan advocacy organization, Global Action for Children. His book, My Family, A Symphony, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011 and has been translated into seven different languages.
Peter Moore has been a lecturer at City since 2010 and is a graduate of the MA in narrative non-fiction at City where he wrote his first book, Damn His Blood (2012), a reconstruction of a double murder in rural Worcestershire at the height of the Napoleonic Wars was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week . His second book, The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to See the Future (2015), was a New York Times notable book of the year and listed among the 'Best Books of the Summer' by The Times. His third book will be published in 2018.
Bridget O'Donnell worked at the BBC for ten years before studying at City University London on the second year of the Masters in Non-Fiction. Her book, Inspector Minahan Makes a Stand, is a historical true-crime story set in the 1880s about the extraordinary events leading up to the raising of the age of consent. It was published by Picador in 2012.
Find out what Peter Moore and Bridget O'Donnell advise
Anne H. Putnam is a freelance writer and editor based in the US whose wry and poignant memoir about body image and gastric bypass surgery, Navel Gazing, was published by Faber and Faber in 2013.
N.A. Pickford's true crime book, Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn is the true story of Lady Bette, fourteen years old and immensely wealthy, who is tricked by her unscrupulous grand-mother into marrying Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age and notoriously debauched. A professional maritime historian, N. A. Pickford has also made documentaries for Channel 4 and published books with Dorling Kindersley and National Geographic.
Kusumanjali Ravindranath's book Good Night & Good Luck was published by Harper Collins India. This memoir traces the journey to peaceful slumber, for a new mother and her baby. It's an obstacle course strewn with 'booby' traps, warring baby gurus, indulgent and obsessive grandmothers, jet lag and colliding cultures – all part of the new mother's vertiginous learning curve. A witty, heartwarming book about a baby's first year, and about navigating the myths and truths of modern parenting between two continents, Anju's experience could be your guide to (dare we say it?) a good night's sleep.
H M Aziz won a commendation for The Cheekovit (Fiction) in the Wasafiri Magazine's new writing prize 2015.
Creative Writing and Publishing: students now published
Sonya Lalli graduated in 2015. Her debut novel The Arrangement is published by Orion Fiction in 2017. Sonya is a Canadian writer of Indian heritage who she studied law in her hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and at Columbia University in New York City before coming to City for the MA in creative writing and publishing. She currently works as a journalist at a legal magazine in London, has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and loves travel, yoga, piano, reading and cocktail bartending.
Carlie Sorosiak graduated in 2015. Her debut YA novel If Birds Fly Back, published by HarperTeen US/Macmillan UK in 2017 and is a story, she says, about missing people and astrophysics and kissing and one completely transformative summer.
Advance praise has included quotes from:
"It's the rarest author who can pull off laugh-out-loud hilarious, profound, and breathlessly romantic, all in the most sparkling prose. That shortlist includes Rainbow Rowell, Nicola Yoon, and now, Carlie Sorosiak."—Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King and Goodbye Days
If Birds Fly Back "should resonate with fans of Morgan Matson, John Green, and Rainbow Rowell." —Kirkus
Holly Domney graduated in 2017. She won the Dystopian Fiction Prize sponsored by the George Orwell Society and is currently working in the publishing industry.
Maja Olsen, a current student, won the Dystopian Fiction Prize this year with another CWP student Nick Owen winning a commendation.
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