After reserving saucepans at Argos, I was plagued by a spammer with cancer charity email from Macmillan … According to a survey 70 per cent of us will not be taking part in ‘black friday’ sales because we are worried about the safety of giving out our personal details online. And it seems we are […]
Author: Alison Smith-Squire
Alison Smith-Squire is a writer, journalist and media agent selling exclusive real life stories to newspapers, magazines and TV. She owns the sell my story website Featureworld.co.uk, which was set up to help ordinary people sell their stories to the press.
Author Spot: Lorna McCann – how NOT to be a Soldier…
For several years Lorna McCann was a private in the British army, driving soldiers and high-profile army personnel. The mum of one, 51, who now works as a hospital personal assistant, has drawn on her experiences of life in the Forces – from witnessing SAS soldiers leaping out of a plane to accidentally shooting a […]
How often should a couple have sex?
Do you have sex twice a week or twice a month? And does it matter to your relationship how often you make love? Work stops many of us having sex as regularly as we would like. Family life – such as babies and children get in the way of love making. And some couples are […]
£37,000 – the UK’s ideal salary …
Work life balance is more important than earning lots of money, finds study… Claims people earning less than £35,000 a year happier than those earning over £200,000… Many of us imagine earning more money will make our lives happier. But according to a recent survey, that isn’t necessarily so. In fact a study found that […]
Courtney Adamo silences the trolls…
Courtney Adamo deletes posts from her Instagram account after fans criticise her… It’s a familiar problem for all of us writing on social media – what do you do when trolls begin leaving unkind messages on your posts? Courtney Adamo seems to have come up with the perfect solution – recently, after receiving some unpleasant […]
41 dogs in my Three-bed semi: Britain’s most obsessed dog owner?
I adore my cat. But Channel 5’s 41 Dogs in My three-bed semi follows three pet owners who are possibly more nuts over their animals than even I am… meet one woman who has 41 dogs, a man with 60 animals and a woman who’s spent £60K on her ‘dog babies’…
The Telegraph app doesn’t work …
A look at national newspaper apps … which is best? ‘You don’t have a subscription’ says The Telegraph paper app, blocking out the story I wanted to read. It is something that happens all too often these days with The Telegraph – a paper I have paid to read on my iPhone. I have rung […]
Is your press conference a waste of time?
Press conference – a good idea or maybe not… Most organisations seeking publicity will have thought about holding a press conference or a press launch – the idea being that the world’s media (they hope) will descend and they will be richly rewarded with great publicity. Much work and sometimes considerable financial expense goes into […]
The Daily Record, a reporter called Keith McLeod and some nasty ‘journalism…’
Shocking footage shows how TWO male reporters from Daily Record ‘visited’ a young mum in her own home… It never ceases to amaze me how so many people believe local newspapers to be trustworthy and somehow ‘safer’ than the national press. But in my vast experience nothing is further than the truth and here’s some […]
Should you post photos of your kids on social media?
Oversharing? Is it time to stop posting so many personal photos of our children on sites such as Facebook and Instagram? Posting photos of our children on social media has become incredibly fashionable. Indeed I follow many very public profiles on Instagram where the focus is the children. And the information given by the parents […]