My late father Kingsley Squire and his elder brother Geoff, who still lives in Devon, were fortunate enough to grow up in Branscombe, a quintessential English village by the sea. Living in the schoolhouse, where their father Stanley, was headmaster, they were given freedoms today’s generations will never know… Here are two extracts from his […]
Category: Writing and Journalism
Writing books, writing articles, dealing with journalists and the media. All you need to know from an experienced media agent…
Author Spot: Robin Barratt
Robin Barratt tells how he hopes his new book, Britain’s Toughest Women – chronicling the lives of women bodyguards, bouncers, bodybuilders, boxer, martial artists and MMA fighters in the UK – will be an inspiration to us all. And he also tells how writing something every day has helped him gain success as an author…
Daily Star gets round copyright issue…
If the Daily Star newspaper and website wants to improve its circulation – it recently suffered a whopping 13% fall and now just sells 425,000 copies a day (while Google rarely brings up the Daily Star website in any sort of search) – then the way to do it is to honestly source more exclusives…
Zenpix and some self-styled ‘syndication’…
How a photographer boldly sold someone’s personal photos on story that didn’t ‘belong’ to him… Zenpix, Manchester, took photos of a Featureworld interviewee for one newspaper. They then appeared in other newspapers and websites – along with my lifted copy – without mine or the interviewee’s consent. A look a some sharp practice I believe […]
The Sunday Telegraph, byline banditry and a spot of ‘plagiarism…’
Recently a broadsheet newspaper lifted almost 1000 words of a story I wrote for The Sun newspaper and printed it without any payment or even checking the story out. So what happens if you are writing a blog or you are a journalist. Should you expect your copy will be lifted, should you bother to say anything and does it matter? I look at the laws and discuss why I believe it does matter and is not ethical…
Gemma Long appears in The Sun…
Mum Gemma Long tells how a gastric bypass is threatening to starve her to death …
Paternity story in the Sunday Mirror…
For 18 years Mike and Michael Yates thought they were dad and son – but a DNA test has revealed the cruel truth. They are not even related… story in the SUNDAY MIRROR …
Our love wasn’t enough… interviewee has book published.
Interviewee Cherry Willoughby’s story about adoption gone wrong appears in TAKE A BREAK mag and she publishes her book…
Jessica Pardoe appears on Russian TV…
Featureworld doesn’t just sell stories to the UK – here’s a selection of stories recently sold around the world…
Chris and Joanne McDuff appear in NEW! magazine…
Chris and Joanne McDuff tell NEW! mag how they have no regrets over spending £28,000 to get their twins via an Indian egg donor and surrogate…