Once Malissa Jones was dubbed Britain’s Fattest Teen – but after having a gastric bypass Malissa, 20 has lost so much weight, she has been diagnosed as anorexic….
Year: 2011
How Featureworld can gain you multiple story deals…
Can you sell your story to more than one magazine or newspaper? Here, journalist Alison Smith-Squire, who runs Sell My Story website Featureworld, explains how this is done…
‘My sister had my baby…’ one woman’s emotional story
When Cheryl Keye discovered she couldn’t have a baby, her sister, Lyndsay, stepped in to give her the son she always longed for and recently gave birth to Cheryl’s child for her.
Teenage girls and binge drinking…
Sarah Robinson tells how she believes her breast cancer is linked to binge drinking in her teens. Her story appears as part of a larger report into the rise of binge drinking amongst teen girls in the UK in the Daily Mail newspaper.
Terrified … of other people eating…
Cheryl Houghton’s quirky real-life story about her health phobia appears in The Sun newspaper.
Interviewees sell their stories to more magazines…
Two Featureworld interviewees resell their real-life stories to women’s magazines.
Selling your story? Watch out for the scams…
How do you sell your story safely to the press? Media agent Alison Smith-Squire from Sell my Story website Featureworld outlines some golden rules – and gives some words of warning…
Sell your story for summer…
Going on holiday? Do you have a real-life story you can sell to the press or women’s magazine – if so you could make enough money to pay for your summer holiday…
Rape victim’s boyfriend publishes book…
Rape victim’s boyfriend to have book published. Sell your story behind your book and gain publicity for your book.
Too dumb to be a mum?
Sell your story to the press. Kerry McDougall – the girl once judged too dim to marry or be a mum by social services – talks about how she spent her first Mother’s Day with son Ben, her wedding and how she now expects another baby in the Sunday Mirror newspaper…