Archive for February, 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010
We need these stories or people right now….
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(also, please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider)
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Person or Story Wanted: Adopted Child, or Sperm Donor.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking to interview a woman who’s adopted a child by herself, and we are also looking for a woman who’s used a sperm donor.
Person or Story Wanted: I am looking for women – or couples – who have problems with their mother in laws.
Where the story will appear: Woman’s magazine article.
More info: We are looking to interview 2-3 women – or maybe a couple – who are willing to chat about the effect problematic mother in laws have had on their relationship for a sensitive piece in a top women’s magazine. Maybe their in laws caused such a problem that their relationship even broke down as a consequence. The case study will need to be willing to be pictured (although we can change their name) and also available for a short telephone interview. They will also be paid for their time and the piece will be read back to them before publication.
Person or Story Wanted: People who have lost relatives or loved ones to MRSA.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for case studies of people whose loved ones have died because of MRSA they picked up in an NHS hospital. We need people in particular whose relatives went into hospital for a fairly minor complaint and picked up the infection in there. MRSA mainly affects elderly patients so I\’m looking for people who lost younger relatives in particular.
We also want to hear the case study’s views on what the Government could have done better to prevent MRSA deaths.
Person or Story Criteria: Relatives or loved ones must have caught MRSA in an NHS hospital and died as a result of the infection.
Person or Story Wanted: Women aged under 48 talking about the ‘final straw’ that made them leave their husbands.
Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.
More info: We need pictures of the women with their ex-hubbies.
Person or Story Wanted: Mums who gave birth on a special day whose baby is under 18 months.
Where the story will appear: A pregnancy magazine.
More info: We are looking for mums who gave birth on a meaningful day – such as her wedding anniversary, wedding day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, last day at work (but not Christmas, New Year or a birthday) to feature as a real life birth story in a top pregnancy magazine.
Person or Story Criteria: The baby must be under 18 months and we will need high res images of the mum with her baby as a newborn and the newborn on his/her own.
Person or Story Wanted: We are looking for a man who (like Ashley Cole) is living with his mother in law.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper story.
More info: It would need to be a couple who are willing to speak candidly (ie, about how it affects their sex life) and be photographed on the edition.
Person or Story Wanted: strong, emotional first person lead for july issue.
Where the story will appear: Women’s glossy monthly magazine story.
More info: We need a good emotional, uplifting lead stories (nothing gloomy please – this particular magazine don’t do gloom). Also any nice three women pieces (ideas like ‘what our clothes say about us’; ‘why my fresh start was the best thing that ever happened’.
Person or Story Criteria: 30-55 down-to-earth (ie no high-flyers or career women).
Person or Story Wanted: Teenage mums.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for a young mum who gave birth at 13 or 14. She can be no more than 16 now.
Person or Story Wanted: Male sex addict
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
More info: Real life feature: ‘I am a sex addict’
Person or Story Criteria: Male in his 20s.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who has had an abortion in her 40s, and a woman who contracted an STD in her 40s.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.
More info: The feature is about how these ‘teenage’ type problems can actually occur at any age. Both women would need to be identified and pictured, but we will do a readback to the interviewee. There is a small fee available for the right case study – dependent on the story.
Person or Story Criteria: Must be a woman in her 40s prepared to be identified and pictured.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been driven to taking extreme revenge on their ex boyfriends.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story – women’s supplement.
More info: We are looking for women who were driven to extreme revenge tactics after finding out a boyfriend was cheating on them or treated them badly in some other way. Perhaps they publicly humiliated him by putting up posters / creating a fake website in his name etc. Perhaps they destroyed his favourite things or ruined his wardrobe. Anything that will make a reader secretly cheer and think, he totally got what he deserved!
Person or Story Criteria: Must be women aged 22-34, willing to be identified / photographed. There is a small fee available.
Person or Story Wanted: A mum who looked after her daughter\’s baby to allow her to finish her education.
Where the story will appear: Women’s magazine story.
Friday, 26th February 2010
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Our latest story requests:
Get paid to feature in any of these magazine or newspaper articles. Visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to send us your details and find out how much we will pay you.
You can also send us any other real-life story ideas at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk and you will earn cash if we can publish them for you.
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Person or Story Wanted: Women who have experienced suicidal thoughts and tried to take her own life.
Where it will appear: Sunday Newspaper Magazine story.
More info: We are looking for a woman in her late 20s/early 30s who had suicidal thoughts when she was younger and who tried to take her life. She’s now received help/support and thinks that failing was the best thing that happened to her. Perhaps she’s helping other women now who feel suicidal? Or maybe she’s living her dream life/career or has become a mum.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have taken revenge on an ex.
Where it will appear: Sunday Newspaper Magazine story.
More info: We are looking for women aged 20-40 who have taken revenge on an ex after her treated her badly, eg by cheating on her, and in the most imaginative way possible.
Two women recently put up posters warning others off their ex after they discovered he’d been seeing both of them at once…an American woman put up billboards of her with her now ex after she found out he was actually still married… so we are looking for women who have been quite creative in their revenge tactics!
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for spooky love stories – so I need a woman who found love through a psychic / tarot reader / astrologist etc.
Where it will appear: Glossy women’s magazine story.
Person or Story Wanted: Primary school mums.
Where it will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine.
More info: We’re looking for girls who gave birth age 10-15 to talk about how they coped with being such young mums. They’d need to be over 16 now so they can be identified.
We’re looking for a range of experiences – so perhaps one gave up her baby for adoption, and feels like that was the best thing she could have done for both of them, but another might have struggled on and is really proud of what she’s achieved.
Person or Story Wanted: Case study of a woman who has been a victim of domestic violence.
Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Urgently need a female victim of domestic violence. Ideally with injury pictures. Perpetrator MUST have been convicted and we also need a picture of him.
Person or Story Wanted: Adult phone line workers.
Where it will appear: Glossy women’s magazine story.
More info: We are looking for women who work for adult phone lines, who are happy to be pictured in Reveal and discuss their career move.
- perhaps they’ve taken it up because they’re working around child care?
-perhaps they’ve retired and wanted a bit of money on the side?
We want to hear from women of all ages who have tried it out as a career. Please send any applications with name, age and a picture.
Person or Story Wanted: Someone who used to be a member of ‘The Silver RIng Thing’ who has now abandoned it.
Where it will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking for someone who joined the Silver RIng chastity movement when it first came to Britain a few years ago but who has now left and who is prepared to discuss why. It’s part of a wider piece on whether abstinence pledges work in the long run.
Criteria: Preferably female, but not crucial. Most silver ring pledgers are teens so looking for someone under/early twenties. Ideally they would be prepared to be photographed but again not crucial.
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for women willing to have a fertility test – contact details only.
Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are running a general fertility piece on different women with different lifestyles. I am in need of a a forty odd year old who doesnt drink or is v healthy and willing to have a test and have results printed. Also looking for someone in their 40s who has drank heavily or smoked all their lives for same reason. Also looking for a healthy/tee total 30 odd year old for the feature.
Person or Story Wanted: Five teenage girls with strange eating habits.
Where it will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: I am looking for teenage girls with mad eating habits. Maybe they don’t eat carbs to stay Posh Spice stick-like, perhaps they only eat takeaways as they don’t like anything else, or maybe they haven’t eaten anything but salad for two years.
We would want to speak to these teens, analyse their diet with our experts and then do a bloodtest to see if there are any other problems. We would then work to create a nice healthy plan for them. Need case studies asap.
Criteria: Must be 13-18, female, not anorexic etc or obese.
Thursday, 11th February 2010
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Love is in the air
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. Well, nearly. The big day is approaching, and it’s an event that divides everyone into two groups.
Firstly, the Smug Marrieds and Taken – those of you happily in love with your partners, laughing at the rest of us who are single and lonely. We want to hear your stories of love and romance – week-long extravaganzas of gifts and serenading, as in the case of Britain’s most romantic man, Andrew Nellis. He took girlfriend Jodie away on a series of surprise trips, a helicopter ride and even a ride on a Venetian gondolier to propose. He spent £13,000 making it the perfect romantic week, and we sold his story to Pick Me Up magazine and Your Life in the Daily Mirror.
But what about those Valentine’s Day stories that go wrong? We’ve heard of girls going to the hairdresser’s for the day, determined to become peroxide for the big Valentine’s date, only to have a hair-dye disaster. Losing your hair as you eat a romantic candle-lit meal? Doesn’t sound too amorous from where we’re standing. But we would still like to hear your stories.
Valentine’s is also a day to put pressure on relationships. Massive pressure from the media to have a ‘perfect day’ with your loved one often outs problems you’re having as a couple into sharp focus. We’ve listened to girlfriends who moan that their fellas spend all day every day on the internet, not paying them any attention in the slightest.
Then there’s the ladies who get their revenge – dumping their men on Valentine’s Day by sticking up posters of them in their cities, advertising to every unsuspecting woman that their ex is a love rat to avoid.
We want to hear all your great Valentine’s Day stories, whether they’re happy, sad, or just plain crazy. Any special marriage proposals? Did your man dress up in your clothes to get down on one knee? Or did you catch him in bed with your best mate? Selling your story to one of the top national magazines or newspapers is the best way to get your story across effectively, in the way that you want.
On a sadder note, there are also some tragic Valentine stories out there. Sons who died in car crashes, hours away from delivering their presents to their girlfriends the following day. Telling your story can help spread a message – whether it’s to stop people from speeding, or get revenge on a cheating boyfriend who broke your heart.
We negotiate the best fee for your story, and tell it in the way you want it to be told. So get in touch, and share your February stories with the Famous Features team.
Tuesday, 2nd February 2010
