URGENT STORY REQUESTS – EARN CASH NOW
The Stories Listed Below are Urgently Needed. We will pay you to appear in a magazine or newspaper story.
Just visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk ).
Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story today.
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Story or Person Wanted: Looking for an inspirational read about women.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for inspirational stories about women who’ve done something amazing. It could be anything as long as it’s about the woman herself – not kids, diet or looks. It needs to have a strong story behind it though to fill a spread.
Story or Person Wanted: MY HOLIDAY CHANGED MY LIFE
Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
Info: We’re looking for women who’ve gone on holiday and it has in some extraordinary way changed their lives…not just that they moved to the country where they were on hols.
Criteria: The women need to be in their mid-30s to early 50s
Story or Person Wanted: Hen nights that have got out of control…
Where the story or article will appear: Glossy Magazine Feature.
Info: We’re looking for women prepared to talk about a particularly nightmarish hen party – expensive/extravagant trips that have gone horribly wrong, demanding brides-to-be, arguments about what to do, control-freak friends who’ve been put in charge of organising.
Criteria: Aged between 18 to 35.
Story or Person Wanted: Upbeat, quirky real-life story ideas with great pictures.
Where the story or article will appear: Weekend newspaper magazine story.
Info: Gentle and heartwarming ideas needed for spread in the weekend newspaper magazines.
Story or Person Wanted: A girl with a dad dating younger girls
Where the story or article will appear: monthly women’s magazine.
Info: We are looking for a girl aged 18-32 who has a dad who loves dating or is in a relationship with a younger girl.
Story or Person Wanted: Extraordinary body transformations: Rebuilt after massive injuries/huge weight loss/sex swop, ETC.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: Any extraordinary body transformation stories wanted.
Story or Person Wanted: ‘I’m in love – but not with my husband’
Where the story or article will appear: Glossy Celebrity Magazine.
Info: Looking for a female case study (aged 25-50) who admits to being in love with someone other then their husband.
Story or Person Wanted: The family of a murdered loved one whose murderer has been released early from prison.
Where the story or article will appear: Magazine Story.
Info: We are looking to find the family or relative of a person who was murdered and their murderer has been released early from prison or is set to have an early release. We would want to speak with the family/relative about how this has affected them. We are tagging this on to the Peter Sutcliffe/Philip Lawrence news stories.
Criteria: The woman needs to be aged mid 30s to mid 50s.
Story or Person Wanted: A wacky, fun or uplifting real life story.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
Info: We’ve got lots of gloomy news stories at the moment. To balance this out we are looking for a light real life stories to run in one of Saturday’s papers. Please pitch anything that might be suitable.
Criteria: None, but women aged 18 – 35 work well for us.
Story or Person Wanted: Female aged 18-35 who has had malaria.
Where the story or article will appear: Newspapers Article.
Info: We are looking for a fairly extreme case of malaria, someone who was struck down quite badly, hospitalised and maybe even close to death.
Criteria: Must be female, age approx 18-35 and available for quick turn around, phone chat and pics.
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That’s it. So get in touch if you think you could help with one of these magazine or newspaper stories. We will pay you for your participation, so visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk today and fill out our online form.
If you would like to sell a story that isn’t on the above list, just let us know, we are looking for all kinds of stories.
Wednesday, 21st July 2010
LATEST STORY REQUESTS
The Following Stories are Urgently Needed…. (see story requests below). We will pay you to appear in a magazine or newspaper story.
Just visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk ).
Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story today.
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Story or Person Wanted: Breast cancer sufferer/ survivor whose cancer could be linked to lifestyle factors
Where the story or article will appear: National Newspaper Story.
Info: Feature on breast cancer rates.
Criteria: Needs to potentially fit into one of these categories:
- single without children (and 40s or older)
- a drinker (either had a period of binge-drinking or just a glass a night over a prolonged period)
- worked nights
Story or Person Wanted: A wacky, fun or uplifting real life story.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
Info: We’ve got lots of gloomy news stories at the moment. To balance this out we are looking for a light real life stories to run in one of Saturday’s papers. Please pitch anything that might be suitable.
Criteria: None, but women aged 18 – 35 work well for us.
Story or Person Wanted: Female aged 18-35 who has had malaria.
Where the story or article will appear: Newspapers Article.
Info: We are looking for a fairly extreme case of malaria, someone who was struck down quite badly, hospitalised and maybe even close to death.
Criteria: Must be female, age approx 18-35 and available for quick turn around, phone chat and pics.
Story or Person Wanted: Looking for an inspirational read about women.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
Info: We are looking for inspirational stories about women who’ve done something amazing. It could be anything as long as it’s about the woman herself – not kids, diet or looks. It needs to have a strong story behind it though to fill a spread.
Criteria: The woman needs to be aged mid 30s to mid 50s.
Story or Person Wanted: A woman who will admit the last taboo, and talk about feeling envious of her friends.
Where the story or article will appear: Magazine Story.
Info: Especially since the recession has hit and we’re all looking at others around us wondering if they’ve got it better and feeling envious of their new job/car/pair of Louboutin shoes. We want a woman to talk about how she feels this even if she doesn’t admit it to her friends and how she gets over it.
Criteria: A woman aged between 25-45, who is willing to be identified.
Story or Person Wanted: The mum (or perhaps wife) of a spree killer along the lines of Raoul Moat, who is on the run.
Where the story or article will appear: Magazine Feature.
Info: We’re looking for a chat with the mother of a killer who has gone on a killing spree or attempted to get revenge after being dumped/getting out of prison.
Basically we want to do something that we can tie in with the recent manhunt for Raoul Moat, who was on the run from police after gunning down his ex-girlfriend, killing her lover and then shooting a police officer after being released from prison. If you know anyone who has been through something similar, please get in touch urgently as we need to turn this around quickly today.
Story or Person Wanted: Men who had a child through a surrogate or want children despite being single
Where the story or article will appear: Sunday Magazine Supplement.
Info: We are looking for single men who have had a child through a surrogate mother or egg donor, or would do so – in light of the story on Ronaldo.
Also looking for single men who are desperate to have children, or men in relationships where they want children more urgently than their wife or girlfriend.
Story or Person Wanted: Steroid abuser….or victim thereof.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
Info: Looking for someone who has first-hand experience of the effects of steroids and so-called ‘roid-rage’. For example, someone (a man) who has been taking them to build muscle and whose character/behaviour has changed as a result. They have become aggressive, violent as a result. Now no longer taking them (we need them to reflect on this and tell their story). Alternatively, a woman who has suffered as a result of their partner taking steroids – physically abused etc. Need them to tell their story.
Story or Person Wanted: We are looking for a family who has been through something extraordinary.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Story.
Info: We have a family focus in our one of our Aug/Sept issues and are running an ‘Extraordinary Families’ feature. We have two case studies already and are looking for a third family who would be willing to have a quick phone/email interview and supply us with some pictures.
Story or Person Wanted: Women who have experienced identity fraud
Where the story or article will appear: Fabulous
Info: We\’re putting together a report on id fraud and we\’re looking for women who have experience extreme cases t talk about their experiences.
Criteria: 18-35, happy to be identified and exclusive.
Story or Person Wanted: A fat family.
Where the story or article will appear: Newspaper Story.
Info: Apparently British kids spend more than double the amount of cash on junk food than their American counterparts. Over one in three children here aged five to 13 are already overweight or obese. We are looking for an overweight family – preferably mum, dad and two or three kids – who are willing to be interviewed and photographed for an article on the increasing British obesity problem. The feature would cover the amount of food they eat, hostility they may have faced and whether they reckon weight is no-one else’s business. We can pay for their participation.
Special criteria? : Ideally a family consisting of mum, dad and two or three kids. However, if you have a willing single parent family that could work so pitch away and I\’ll let you know.
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That’s it. So get in touch if you think you could help with one of these magazine or newspaper stories. We will pay you for your participation, so visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk today and fill out our online form.
If you would like to sell a story that isn’t on the above list, just let us know, we are looking for all kinds of stories.
LATEST STORY REQUESTS
The Folowing Stories are Urgently Wanted…. (see story requests below).
Just go to www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).
Also – please get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. We are looking for new story ideas every day. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.
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Person or Story Wanted: Looking for an upbeat/quirky/usual real-life stories.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for a real life story for next week’s paper but looking for early ideas.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who can talk about her experience of domestic violence.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Women’s Magazine Article.
More info: We’re looking for a woman who was a victim of domestic violence. We want the story to have a positive ending though – maybe, after finally leaving their ex, she went to get a good job and meet a new man.
Criteria: She needs to be aged between 35 and 55.
Person or Story Wanted: Woman whose success has prevented her from having a relationship.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Article.
More info: Woman who is very successful, attractive and single. Because of her success she hasn’t been able to hold down a relationship.
Criteria: Women aged late 30s, early 40s.
Person or Story Wanted: Single dad real life stories.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Looking for a strong story about a single father for a spread.
Criteria: British.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman who fell in love with a fella on holiday -but he was using her for a visa into the UK.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Women’s magazine article.
More info: We are putting together a feature on different holiday horrors a woman might encounter while abroad and as part of that we are looking for a woman who fell head over heels for one of the local guys on holiday, thought he was ‘the One’, were planning on setting at home together in the UK and then it turned out that he was only using her for a passport into the UK.
Criteria: I am looking for a woman aged between 25-55.
Person or Story Wanted: Ever been stalked by a friend?
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Looking for women – and men – 25 to 50, who have tried to break it off with a friend but the friend hasn’t got the message. They may bombard you with emails, texts, or calls or demand to know why you don’t want to see them anymore when you’ve tried to be polite and/or ignored their attempts to get in touch. Did this get out of hand and, if so, how did you stop it?
Criteria: 25-50, living in UK.
Person or Story Wanted: Human-interest stories (preferably involving a woman or family).
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Interested in hearing any human interest stories which have NOT been in the national press yet or any first person pieces from female writers who have been through an experience or are planning on trying something new – ie dating after divorce, therapy etc etc.
Person or Story Wanted: Woman who had a no-strings attached holiday fling and is now regretting it deeply.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Glossy magazine story.
More info: We are putting together a feature on holiday horrors women may encounter on their hols and as part of that I am looking to interview a woman who picked up a foreign lover for cheap holiday thrills but now has real emotional regret over the affair. For example – just got a divorce and wanted to boost her confidence by having no-strings holiday sex with a gorgeous local – but back home now feels cheap, degraded and really stupid for putting herself at risk from STD’s, pregnancy etc.
Or maybe, you did become pregnant as a result.
Criteria: The woman should be aged between 25-55.
Person or Story Wanted: Victims of lonely-hearts scams.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: I am looking for victims who have been duped out of money by fraudsters from abroad via online dating sites and in lonely hearts columns.
Criteria: No age limit. Must be British victims.
Person or Story Wanted: Woman who caught an STI/ STD on holiday after a holiday fling…
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Magazine Story.
More info: We are writing a piece about different holiday horrors a woman might encounter on holiday and as part of that we are looking to interview a woman who is willing to speak openly about having a holiday fling and catching an STI/ STD as a result.
Criteria: Woman aged between 25-55 – but ideally if she is an older divorcee that would make the story a lot stronger and relevant to our readership but whatever the story is please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Person or Story Wanted: A man who did something drastic for his wedding – eg. lost weight/had plastic surgery.
Where the Story/Article will Appear: Sunday Newspaper Magazine Story.
More info: We want to speak to a guy who is aged 20-40 who wanted a big wedding while his bride wasn’t so bothered. In order to make his day perfect he either lost a lot of weight, had surgery to improve his looks or even had a gastric band for quick-fire weight loss.
Criteria: Must have before and after pictures.
WHO WOULD BE A WOMAN?
By Alexandra McGowan for Famous Features
Don’t get me wrong, there are a number of incredibly wonderful things about being a woman. We are able to carry children, multi-task, and spend a month’s salary on shoes without wasting time on silly emotions like guilt.
I think all of the above are pretty special!
However, there are times when being a woman is downright lousy – for a number of reasons.
One of them materialises once a month, every month…for most of our adult lives. The dreaded…PMT (for any males, or women fortunate enough not to know what this is, it’s pre-menstrual tension). It’s caused by an imbalance of hormones at the onset of a period, and usually lasts for a few days.
Most women get a bit down, use it as an excuse to pig out on chocolate, then carry on as normal. But some women have to stay locked away in darkened rooms, such is the madness that comes upon them with the ‘monthly miseries’.
For too long, people have sneered at sufferers of PMT as being over-dramatic, or slightly unstable mentally. But it’s not true. If your body is affected by hormonal changes, there is nothing you can do about it…except sit tight and ride the storm.
We’re interested in real life cases of severe PMT. Did it break up your marriage? Did you find yourself nearly snapping (verbally and perhaps even physically) at your children one day, because you were so irrational and upset?
If anyone understands what you’re going through, it’s other women, which is who we would love you to share your story with in one of the national magazines or newspapers. You will be paid a great fee for sharing your story – and maybe it will reach out to someone else who has been affected in the same way you have.
So please get in touch with one of the Famous Features team today by emailing your story to sell-my-story@famousfeatures.co.uk, or call our hotline: 0845 83 88 55
Losing Someone You Love
At some point in our lives, it’s something we all have to face. Whether it’s illness, a tragic accident or relationship ends – when someone important to you isn’t there anymore, it can feel almost impossible to bear and even harder to accept that they are gone.
We all go through it at some point – but how did it feel when you lost someone you cared for greatly?
This week, a close friend of mine died suddenly in his sleep. His name was Mark*, a handsome young artist, the original cheeky cockney boy, who was loved by everyone who met him.
For many years of my life, he and I were inseparable. He was the gay best friend every girl dreamed of. Hilarious, good-looking, charming and infectious to be around. He taught me about fake tan and high heels in a way that a big sister should have, how to flirt with men in cars and most importantly, how to appreciate art.
We’d dance in his kitchen to Sophie Ellis-Bextor songs, write love poems to each other then get them read out on radio stations, have endlessly silly nights out together and put the world to rights. Then last night, I got a call – he was gone. A heart attack after an illness he’d caught on holiday in India – just like that.
24 hours later, and I think already I’ve been through every emotion imaginable. Shock and disbelief at first, then the guilt at not being a better friend. Then anger for him leaving me to go to a better place. The truth is, I’m just so sad that he has gone.
No doubt I’ll feel all these emotions ten-times-over again, and eventually it’ll get easier. But how best to remember him? Doing what I know best – putting pen to paper right now, as Mark* would have expected me to. So, I’d like you to do the same.
At Famous Features, we deal with family tragedies, medical miracles and mishaps on a daily basis – and we do it well. Our clients often tell us that telling the story of their loved one, then seeing the story down in print is like a lasting memento of the person they have lost – ‘Gone But Not Forgotten’, and with so many worthy causes to donate to, you can raise money for a good cause too.
Through my work as a journalist, I’ve realised that feeling helpless after someone’s death doesn’t mean you have to sit and do nothing. You can remember your loved one in your own way. I’d love for you to write in, and tell us what that special person in your life meant to you, and I can’t wait to help you share your memories and photographs with everyone else that loved them too.
If this is something that you would like us to help you with, you can try putting those words down now via our online form at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk – I look forward to hearing from you.
Sally (sally@famousfeatures.co.uk)
*This name has been changed for privacy reasons.
LATEST STORY REQUESTS
We urgently need these stories right now…. (see story requests below).
Just go to www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to tell us if you would like to get paid to be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).
You can also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.
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Story / Person Wanted: Please email us any funny / wacky / bizarre / feel-good / upifting stories.
Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s weekly magazine article.
Story / Person Wanted: We are looking for women who have been ‘functioning addicts’ in the past.
Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s weekly magazine feature.
More info: We are looking to interview women between the age of 18 and 35 who have held down a professional job in the past, whilst being addicted to a drug or alcohol. Perhaps they were addicted to cocaine – and had to go to the toilets to take coke at work – or perhaps they could only get through their working day by drinking a bottle of vodka.
Story / Person Wanted: Wedding stories – wacky wedding / weddings from hell / record- breaking wedlocks.
Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s Glossy Magazine Story.
Story / Person Wanted: Good first person stories.
Where the Story will Appear: Woman’s Glossy Magazine Story.
More info: We are after some good, emotional first person features and stories.
Criteria: Women aged mid 30-mid 60, family minded, very ordinary.
Story / Person Wanted: Victims of IVF Blunders.
Where the Story will Appear: National Newspaper Story.
More info: Responding to the news that IVF blunders have risen by 85 per cent in the last year, we are seeking couples (willing to be identified) who have been victim to a blunder themselves. Incidents could include, lost embryos, mis-matched eggs and sperm, embryos given to the wrong couple…
If you have access to anyone who has found themselves in this position, we’d really like to hear from you.
FAMOUS FEATURES BLOG
By Alexandra McGowan for Famous Features
‘You say tomay-to, I say tomar-to,’ goes the classic sung by jazz legends Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
Here in the Famous Features office, we feel like we’re living that song on a daily basis.
This week, there’s been a potent mix of: Crawley (Sally) Germany (Stef), Newcastle (boy Joe), Essex (girl Jo), Glasgow (Lorna) and Manchester (me), all in the one office.
What a melting pot of accents and dialects, and a great excuse to poke fun at each other.
‘Here you gan, pet,’ read one of my emails on Monday. Joe had sent me something to edit, and apparently that was Geordie for ‘Here you go, love.’
‘Nay bother,’ trills our lovely new girl Lorna as she speaks to people about their incredible real life stories, as we sell them to national newspapers and magazines.
‘It’s DAIN-GEROUS!’ exclaims our editor, Sally Windsor, who hails from Crawley but often slips into a sairf-London drawl.
We have concluded that no-one uses the word ‘Wally’ apart from her, either. Is that a suvvern fing as well?
Stef constantly impressed us with her ability to interview in English professionally and completely fluently, before babbling away on her mobile if one of her German friends called her.
And girl Jo? ‘Alright my darlin’’ she drawls in her dulcet Colchester tones. Even though she doesn’t wear white heels, she’s Essex through and through.
The differences between us all lead to no end of hilarity and confusion. For example, when Lorna thinks someone is attractive, we think she’s saying that they’re ‘fat’ – because that’s how it sounds when she says ‘fit’. Jokes!
Do you have a funny story to tell about accents and dialect? Did you meet your now-hubby, who has a completely different accent to you, through a funny misunderstanding down to the different ways you spoke?
Or has an accident left you with a completely different accent, as in the case of Sarah Colwill, who now speaks with a Chinese accent after experiencing chronic migraine pain?
It’s an unusual story, and one that we would be able to sell for a great fee to one of the women’s magazines, or national newspapers.
Get in touch with your funny accent stories – we can’t wait to hear them, whichever part of the country you’re from!
Calling out all budding Gillian Duffy’s, Have you had it with Labour? LONDON PHOTOSHOOT £100 PLUS TRAVEL THIS SATURDAY.
£50 FINDERS FEE
The Sun Newspaper is looking for stories of people who have been failed by Labour. If you know anyone who has suffered from the case studies below please let us know.
Please be quick the weekend is fast approaching
The case studies we’re looking for are…
· A parent who has lost a child in Afghanistan.
· Someone who has lost a child in street violence – probably through a stabbing.
· Someone who was made redundant during the credit crunch.
· Someone whose business went under during the credit crunch.
· Someone who had their home repossessed.
· Someone whose child left school without the 3Rs or someone who did so themselves.
· Someone who can’t afford the fuel duty when they fill up with petrol.
Thursday, 29th April 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 be in any of these real life stories or features. Send us your details by filling in our online form (located at www.FamousFeatures.co.uk).
You can also get in touch if you have any other stories that you would like us to consider. Your real life experiences and true stories could earn you cash; sell a story now.
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Person or Story Wanted: Britain’s Got Talent Stories.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper.
More info: We are looking for any information about this year’s Britain’s Got Talent contestants. We will pay for any scrap of information, no matter how small. Get in touch now.
Person or Story Wanted: Strong real lives for the women’s pages.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Real-Life Stories.
More info: We are looking for $exy, edgy, topical real life stories for the Women’s pages to put out to the national editors this week. Uplifting is better but nothing too soft.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman whose addiction to looking like a celebrity ruined her life.
Where the story/article will appear: Magazine True Story Section.
More info: We are looking for young women who have spent a lot of time and money trying to look like their favourite celebrity, eg by having a lot of cosmetic surgery such as having a boob job to look like Katie Price, lip injections to look like Angelina, or anything else quite extreme. We need someone whose obsession has ruined their life in some way; eg got them heavily in to debt because they spent so much on surgery, it ended their relationship because their boyfriend was jealous of the attention she got from men, she stopped getting work as a professional lookalike because the star she copied was hated, etc.
Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38. Willing to be photographed.
Person or Story Wanted: IVF mix up Stories.
Where the story/article will appear: National Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for any IVF mix up stories.
Person or Story Wanted: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant.
Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.
More info: Looking for a woman who found ‘Mr Right’ while she was pregnant. She may have been single when she was expecting through to a split, bereavement or having got used AI or similar because she didn’t want to wait for Mr Right to have children. Will want her partner/husband to comment too on how the experience was for him, meeting her under the circumstances.
Person/Story criteria: Ideally they are still together and may even have had children together since.
Person or Story Wanted: A woman (aged 25-55) whose marriage ended after she became more successful then her husband.
Where the story/article will appear: Women’s Magazine – True Life Story Section.
More info: For example, he had an affair to boost his ego after she got a promotion/payrise at work or her career success made him insecure and was the reason their relationship ended. Please note that we can credit the subject’s business at the end of the piece.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have been severely affected by post natal depression
Where the story/article will appear: Newspaper story.
More info: Case studies to be approx 18-35 years old.
Person or Story Wanted: Victims of crime who are outraged by the sentencing their attacker received.
Where the story/article will appear: Woman’s Weekly – Real Life Story Section.
More info: We are working on a feature about people who’ve suffered a terrible crime and been appalled by their attackers’ jail sentence.
Person/Story criteria: Ideally family members. Would need to be female and aged 18-40, but this can be adapted depending on how strong the story is.
Person or Story Wanted: Woman who waited until her children were in their late teens before she divorced her husband.
Where the story/article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We’re looking for a woman to talk about having waited until her children were in their late teens before divorcing her husband, in the belief that it would be less damaging to them.
Person or Story Wanted: Young women who have been humiliated on Facebook, or the internet, or in other ways, by an ex.
Where the story/article will appear: Magazine Article.
More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their reputations ruined by a malicious ex. We would want to interview her/him about how this affected her/him, and they would need to be identified.
Person/Story criteria: Female, aged 18-38, willing to be ID’d.
Person or Story Wanted: Women who have had their lives ruined by a malicious ex.
Where the story/article will appear: Sunday Newspaper Story / Magazine Story.
More info: We are looking for case studies who have had their lives – and reputations – ruined at the hands of a malicious ex.
We would want to interview her about how this affected her, and she would need to be identified.
Person/Story criteria: Female, UK based, aged between 18-38.
Person or Story Wanted: Heartwarming and uplifting features with good pictures.
Where the story/article will appear: Weekend newspaper magazine article.
More info: We are on the hunt for heartwarming, uplifting stories. If you would like more details and think you may be able to help, get in touch. Thanks.
Meet our new FamousFeatures staff writer – Lorna Gray
‘First Day Jitters’
Starting a new job can be pretty daunting so I was feeling suitably nervous when I began my first week as staff reporter at Famous Features last Monday. Now I’ve worked a variety of jobs in my time. In my late teens I worked at a garden centre and a chip shop – neither of which agreed my nails but I enjoyed them nonetheless. So no horror stories there. Unless you count getting slapped with a bit of haddock or having to dress up as an elf at Christmas…
During university, I worked at a popular high street clothes shop – heaven for me but don’t think my bank balance would agree. Then I entered the wondrous world of journalism. I can safely say – every day is a new learning experience and an adventure in this line of work. So it’s best to keep your wits about you at all times unless you want to look like a prize tool.
And the editors? Trust me – the ladies I’ve worked under mean business (one work experience boy went out at lunch and didn’t come back because he was so scared of one particularly scary news editor). But I have a feeling this is going to be different. I’ve reached the end of my first week relatively unscathed (apart from the awful impersonations of my Scottish accent!). And I’m not fearful of getting hit by fish or having an embarrassing uniform forced upon me…not yet anyway.
Here at Famous Features, we’d love to hear about things that have happened to you in your workplace. Have you got any horror stories you’d like to tell? Whether it be an affair with your boss or wars at the water-cooler – we want to hear about it! Tell us and get your story into print!
