Posts Tagged ‘real-life stories’
Monday, June 14th, 2010
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.
Monday, April 26th, 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.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Get paid a generous fee for appearing in any of these magazine or newspaper articles and features. Simply visit www.FamousFeatures.co.uk to send us your details and let us know which story you are interested in taking part in.
You can also let us know if you have any other stories to sell. We are looking for all kinds of different stories to publish. What an easy way to make cash!
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Person or Story Wanted: Couple willing to try relationship therapy.
Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: I’m looking for a long term couple aged between 35 and 55 who would be willing to have a session of relationship therapy and then talk about how it has helped in a women’s weekly magazine. The case study will be paid and you will be able to read the copy before publication.
Person or Story Wanted: A family who refuse to have the Internet at home, and a family who are hooked on the web.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: Following news about the broadband tax, I\’m looking for two families from opposite ends of the broadband spectrum.
1) A family who refuse to have the Internet at home, not for financial reasons, but because they don’t believe it’s a good thing. They prefer to get their kids doing sport or other activities rather than spending hours scouring the web.
2) A family who couldn’t live without the Internet. Mum might use it for shopping, dad might rely to his emails, while the kids are hooked on spotify and facebook.
We would need to picture them at home today and a quick chat on the phone. We can pay them for doing this.
Person or Story Wanted: Case studies of women who have used diet pills with negative side effects.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: After a recent study says that a quarter of women use diet pills, I need several case studies of women who have used them with unpleasant side effects. One Alli case study is fine, but we’d like a couple of other diet drug examples as well and it would be good if they bought them online.
Person or Story Criteria: Age bracket pretty broad (20-60 years old).
Person or Story Wanted: Valentine real life stories.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Features.
More info: Love stories with a twist for a Daily Newspaper’s 14th February issue.
Person or Story Wanted: Mail order brides.
Where the story or article will appear: Men’s magazine story.
More info: We are looking to do a piece about a man who has married what is known as a “mail order bride”
Person or Story Criteria: It has to be a British man between the ages of 18 and 30.
Person or Story Wanted: Desperately seeking: An obese patient forced to EAT MORE in order to have NHS weight loss surgery.
Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine Story.
More info: The Royal College of Surgeons claim obese patients are being made to eat more and gain weight so they can have weight-loss surgery on the NHS. We’re looking for a strong case study of a patient who deliberately gained weight after being told they did not qualify for surgery because they weren’t fat enough. We’re particularly keen to hear from patients whose health suffered as a result – for example, suffering diabetes, stroke, heart problems etc etc. The more extreme the weight gain the better, especially if it was over a short period of time.
Person or Story Criteria: Ideally, the patient should be under 30 and female but we’d be happy to hear about any case studies.
Person or Story Wanted: a funny crime story involving an animal.
Where the story or article will appear: Women’s Magazine story.
More info: We\’re looking for a funny crime story involving an animal in some way. Anything like a pet who was killed that turned into a bit of a whodunnit or someone who was beaten up by someone dressed up as an animal.
Person or Story Criteria: We need to be able to tell it from a woman aged between 18 and 35.
Person or Story Wanted: We are looking to speak to a woman who became a mum in her 50s or older.
Where the story or article will appear: Woman’s Magazine Article.
More info: It doesn’t matter if she was already a mum or if this was her first baby. It also doesn’t matter whether the baby was conceived naturally or through IVF. Ideally the baby would need to be about a year old. We are looking for someone who hasn’t appeared in any other women’s magazines.
Person or Story Wanted: Chemical peels gone wrong.
Where the story or article will appear: Daily Newspaper Story.
More info: We are looking for three women who each had bad experiences of chemical facial peels – did it leave your face scarred, seriously swollen, in a lot of pain, or requiring further treatment to repair damage done by the peel? Phone interviews and pics required. Generous payment offered.
Tuesday, 26th January 2010
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Hello everyone!
In addition to our daily story updates where we will let you know what kind of stories Magazines and Newspapers are looking for right now, we also want to give you a little insight into the world of Famous Features and real-life journalism. We’ll be posting regular blogs to keep you up to date with what is going on in the office, the media, and the world of real-life stories (visit our home page to find out more about selling your story – click here)
The Famous Features Office
So, you could say it’s a rather female-orientated environment here at Famous Features, where we work hard to sell your stories to top magazine and newspapers, including That’s Life!, Take A Break, Closer, and many more cornerstones of the national press.
We’ve turned the old adage of the world of journalism being one big ‘boy’s club’ completely on its head.
Not here it ain’t. Girls only (well nearly!).
You’d be hard pressed to find a more pink, fluffy and feminine office than ours. We’d like to give you an insight into where we write up your inspirational stories.
It’s a tightly run ship, but the office is filled with pink wherever we can. Pink notebooks, pink highlighters, a large pink ‘Famous Features’ sign on the window (which the boring old fuddy duddies in the office next door deemed as tacky – jealousy is a terrible thing) and even a pink lamp. Oh, and did I mention the goldfish? Sadly not pink ones, but we’re working on it.
We work very hard, because selling your stories to the magazines is important to us. So consequently, we spend a lot of time in the office. For this reason, we’ve made it as pink, comforting and female friendly as possible. There’s always handcream in the drawer. There’s always chocolate in the fridge.
We think it’s only fair that we big up the fairer sex quite a bit. After all, it’s your stories of strength, courage and inspiration that make Famous Features the number one press agency for selling your story that it is.
We often look back on stories we’ve sold to magazines and newspapers (such as the Daily Mirror, the People and The Sun) and wonder how the people in that story are getting on. It’s hard not to get personally involved when you’re talking to such incredible people all day.
Take Diane Vinall, for example. We sold her story to That’s Life a couple of months ago. She was absolutely devastated, as any loving mother would be, when her son Stephen was found in East Brighton park last year. He was just 32 years old. Stephen had been a heroin addict for years, and the inquest ruled an overdose as the cause of his death. But Diane isn’t happy with this verdict – she believes he was murdered.
Her story is a touching message of undying love and devotion to her son – she will never give up fighting to find out what really happened the day he died.
Or Jeanette Salmons (nee Sambucci), who remarried her first hubby Malcolm last month 39 years to the day after they married the first time. They were 16 and 18 the first time round, and not quite ready for marriage. They went their separate ways and married new partners – but realised they belonged together after bumping into each other at a family gathering years later. We were so inspired by this story of true love – theirs really is ‘in sickness and in health.’ It appeared in the ‘Your Life’ section of the Daily Mirror on Friday November 20, and we thoroughly enjoyed working with them.
We sold Sylvia Davies’s story to Chat, after she was attacked on Boxing Day 2007 by her abusive ex-partner. She’s since rebuilt her marriage and kicked her alcoholism. She gave birth to her gorgeous baby girl, Emily Rose, a year ago, and we couldn’t be happier for her.
All these incredible women (and there are many more, believe us), just prove that us girls really are the best. Long live the sisterhood, and keep sending us your inspiring stories, ladies!
Alex – Famous Features Journalist
(Don’t worry, we do sell male orientated stories as well, and we have boys in the office – but they have to put up with the pink).
Monday, 23rd November 2009
