Archive for March, 2010
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
We urgently need these stories right now…. (see story requests below).
Just visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in any of these true life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form.
You should also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. You could earn cash from real life story or every day experiences.
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Person or Story Wanted: A woman who took sea kelp tablets and experienced ill side effects.
Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.
More info: Alex Curran was pictured with the tablets that can boost weightloss today, but can also have dangerous effects on health including thyroid issues, raising the risk of hypothyroidism, and autoimmune thyroiditis. There are also a number of side effects like sweating, palpitations etc. I am looking for a woman up to the age of 40 who experienced problems after taking the supplement.
Person or Story Criteria: Female, up to 40.
Person or Story Wanted: A young, good-looking woman who has a very bad temper and lashes out at her friends and family.
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: It’s for part of a news report. We’d need to speak to the woman on the phone and get a good picture of her. As usual, we will pay the person who takes part.
Person or Story Criteria: Aged 18 to 35.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who’s fled the country after having her heart broken.
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: We’re looking for a woman 20-40 who’s had her heart broken and then decided to leave the country to heal it. She might have gone to work in the jungle or a far flung destination or helped with a charity and then decided to never come back. Ideally, she’ll have found love wherever she’s gone.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who’ve had their eggs frozen for social not medical reasons.
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: I’m urgently looking for young women who have had their eggs frozen for some kind of social rather than medical reason, ie they haven’t met the right man yet, are worried that their party lifestyle might affect their fertility in years to come etc. This is for a positive piece on egg freezing so we’re looking for women who are pleased they did it and have no regrets. Maybe one of them has since had a child using one of their eggs frozen a while ago.
Person or Story Wanted: A mum who is financially better off on benefits than going to work.
Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.
More info: This case study is for a piece in a daily newspaper about how the benefits system should be reformed. I’m looking for a mum who is financially better off staying on benefits than she is going out to work. She will need to be named, and pictured, and speak about how she has looked into various options but going to work does not add up.
Person or Story Criteria: Mum must have children who are under 16 and still living at home.
Person or Story Wanted: I’m looking for girls who love showing off their boyfriends.
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: The feature is all about vain girls who love showing off their man and looking like they’re in the perfect relationship.
Ideally I’m looking for a girl who loves putting on displays of public affection with her man. I also need a girl who hires male escorts for parties / events so she looks like she has a gorgeous man on her arm. Then I need a girl who grooms her man – maybe they dress in matching outfits or she\’s given him a make-over etc. Any vain women who love showing off their man would be great! Each case study will be paid.
Person or Story Criteria: Women need to be aged 18-35. Both her and her partner would need to be pictured.
Person or Story Wanted: Women/men who were assaulted/raped at Uni or accused of assaulting/raping someone.
Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.
More info: I am writing a feature about sexual assaults and the culture of heavy drinking and sex at university which means that many women are raped/assaulted and also that sometimes men find themselves wrongly accused of rape/assault.
So i am looking for case studies of:
1. Women (or men) who were raped or assaulted at university.
2. Men (or women) who were accused of rape/assault at university. 3. Anything else that might be relevant, eg lecturers who were implicated or careers ruined etc etc.
Person or Story Wanted: Teenagers who feel under pressure from their family to have a baby.
Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.
More info: Working on a piece about teenage girls who feel under pressure from their family to get pregnant. They might also already be pregnant but feel they were encouraged by their family when they might not otherwise have pursued having children yet. Reasons might include a parent’s desire for grandchildren, or for economic or religious reasons. It might be traditional for that family to have children early.
Person or Story Criteria: The women should be under 20, but otherwise the brief is flexible.
Person or Story Wanted: “I was stalked!”
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: Need a girl in her 20s who was the victim of a stalker for a first person account.
Person or Story Criteria: Female, 20s. Preferably the stalker will have now been convicted (to avoid legal problems).
Person or Story Wanted: Menopausal women using alternative to HRT.
Where the story / feature will appear: Daily Newspaper article.
More info: We’re looking for women who have attempted to overcome the symptoms of menopause – or delay it - using treatments other than HRT – which they have declined to use because of fears over its safety.
Alternatives could be weird, whacky, new and unproven, DHEA etc.
Person or Story Criteria: Women 50plus, articulate, willing to be interviewed – and possibly photographed..
Person or Story Wanted: Saucy sex confessions – can be anonymous.
Where the story / feature will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: We’re looking for women aged 18-35 to send in their naughty sex confessions for a feature. Maybe you and your man got carried away in a romantic holiday moment on the beach or you got down to business out of hours with a colleague, whatever your confession we want to hear from you. It doesn’t matter how saucy you think it is, it just has to be a sexy moment you enjoyed.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
We urgently need these stories right now…. (see story requests below).
Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to feature in any of these true life stories. Just fill in our online form.
Or, get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider.
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Person or Story Wanted: Any Summertime Stories to fill the magazine’s summer specials/issues.
Where the story will appear: Various Women’s Magazines.
More info: Looking for any holiday stories to fill the summer pages of all of the magazines that we contribute to. Holiday romances, injuries and illnesses, heartbreak, disasters and so on. We’ll pay you for your story.
Person or Story Wanted: Individual who has suffered cardiac problems due to cocaine – or a relative of someone who has died.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Looking for an individual, man or woman, who has suffered cardiac problems as a result of taking cocaine. And/ or an individual who has lost a relative after they died as a result of cocaine causing a fatal heart attack.
Person or Story Wanted: When plastic / cosmetic surgery goes wrong. Horribly wrong.
Where the story will appear: Weekly women’s magazine.
More info: We are writing a story to warn women about the dangers of cosmetic surgery.
Person or Story Wanted: I gave my baby to my parents.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for the real life version of the Eastenders storyline where pregnant teen Lucy offers to give her baby to her parents Ian and Jane.
The real mum should be quite young, like Lucy and didn’t want to abort the baby but knew that her parents would be able to give it a good upbringing. Ideally the parents should have wanted another child, but were unable to have more for whatever reason.
It should be a positive story, looking at how the relationships have worked well, how the child has benefitted from having loving grandparents and how the mum has enjoyed having her child around.
Person/Story Criteria: The mum should have had the child in her teens. Her parents can be any age. The child can be any age now up to a teenager. This will require a chat with the whole family and a family picture. We will pay a fee on publication.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who love their very different bodies.
Where the story will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for women who have unusual/different bodies. Their faces must be considered ‘good looking’ and have bodies that are different from the norm. Examples of what we\’re looking for are:
-A very large woman who\’s proud of her plus size curves.
-A very tall woman.
-A very short woman.
-A woman with a lot of tattoos on her body.
-A female bodybuilder.
-A female amputee.
Any other women who have ‘different’ bodies to the norm, are beautiful and love how they look. We would prefer for them not to have appeared in the press before.
Person/Story Criteria: Aged 18-35, Female.
Person or Story Wanted: His affair made us stronger….
More info: URGENTLY looking for a couple case study where the woman has forgiven her partner for cheating. We just need a short chat about how she forgave him and move on. Need a picture of them together, but we could pixellate his face if necessary and pay generous fee…
Person/Story Criteria: 20-45
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for a woman or man who’s marriage has been affected by their mother in law.
Where the story will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: as Ashley Cole blames his mother in law for marriage breakdown, we’re looking to talk to couples who have been through similar experiences. Maybe they lived with their mother in law and their marriage has improved since she moved out? Maybe the husband feels the Mother in law negatively affected their marriage. Whatever the mother in law story we’d been keen to hear it! Thanks.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman, aged under 36, who has HIV and who contracted it through a heterosexual relationship.
Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We’d ideally like a woman who will be identified.
Person or Story Wanted: Where the story will appear: Glossy Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking for men and women aged 18-35, who have been left by a partner, or who left their partner, for someone of the same sex. Generous fee paid.
Person or Story Wanted: “I gave my man a makeover”
Where the story will appear: Woman’s Weekly Magazine.
More info: We need men in their 20s who have had an image overhaul at their girlfriend’s request – eg extensive dental work, laser hair removal, cosmetic surgery etc.
Person/Story Criteria: Couple in their 20s – both would need to come to photoshoot.
Person or Story Wanted: Victims of copycat brides.
More info: Looking for comments/anecdotes from brides who have had their wedding ideas copied by another bride, or who copied someone else’s wedding – anonymity is fine! The sorts of anonymous examples I’m after are anecdotes from brides who had to deal with things like another friend announcing she’s marrying the same week as you, or in the same venue with the same band and decor, or buying the same dress, or having the exact same readings, first dance and ring, or copying your invites etc – so not just friendly borrowing of a nice idea but getting a bit OTT with the copycat behaviour! Especially if they had similar guest lists or, even worse, the copycat ends up having her wedding first and then the bride feared looking like she copied her!
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
CALLING IN ALL YOUR SUMMER STORIES
By Alexandra McGowan
Hi everyone,
FINALLY, it’s happened! The sun is officially shining again, and here at the Famous Features office we are all looking forward to our holidays after a long, cold winter.
Cocktails, summer wardrobes and sunscreen are just a few of the things we love about jetting off to sunnier climes.
But very often, we come back with incredible stories to tell, too – as well as a few extra pounds around the waistline and sunburn.
Take Angela Grant, for example, whose holiday horror story about being impaled on hundreds of sea urchins we sold to Real People magazine. Look out for it in the next few months.
Not to mention the number of people who come back from holiday having suffered horrific food poisoning, blisters the size of walnuts because of extreme sunburn, or even something more horrifying like a brush with a shark.
We want to hear all these stories, and, just as importantly, see what pictures you have to accompany them. Those pictures could get you a great deal with a national magazine or newspaper.
Then there’s the minefield of holiday romances. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t. We would love to hear about both scenarios – are you having a romantic wedding in the resort where you met five years ago?
Or perhaps you were conned by a bronzed love-rat, lulled into a false sense of security by one too many Tequilas? Get in touch. We can help sell your story.
There are also the more tragic, harrowing stories, which we get out there as a warning to others – perhaps one of your children had a terrible accident in a resort that didn’t follow health and safety procedures.
We will endeavour to tell your story with the utmost sensitivity and care, ensuring that the message is communicated to the 11 million people who read the magazines we sell to, but done in the way that you feel comfortable with.
Whatever the situation, summer means stories. So please give me a call: 01293 459808, or email me at alex@famousfeatures.co.uk.
Cheerio!
