Sell your Story to a Magazine
I specialise in selling your story to women's magazines.
I offer a fast track service to all the following bestsellers: Real People, Best, Bella, Take a Break, Chat, Woman, Woman's Own, Closer, More, Love it!, Reveal, Real, New, Now, Full House, That's Life, Pick me Up, Bliss, Shout, Sugar, Mizz as well as many glossies (if the magazine you want to appear in isn't listed, just email me for details.)
Don't forget, I may be able to sell your story in multiple magazines, a national newspaper as well as on national TV if you wish.
TO SELL YOUR STORY TO A MAGAZINE CLICK HERE >
To see some people whose stories recently appeared in a women's magazine, read on ...
I’ll never forget my adopted son
Terri Wood wanted to sell a story to have a record of the heartbreaking time she had when her child was adopted. Her emotional story was placed with CLOSER magazine.
Terri has a loving partner and two beautiful sons. But when she was 15 she got accidentally pregnant with a boyfriend and had her baby adopted.
Although he went to a good home with loving parents, Terri feels she was forced to give up her baby by social services because she was a young mum. She was a good mum and she believes they should have supported her more. Terri thinks about her eldest son all the time.
She says: “I hope one day if he comes searching for me, I can show him the magazine and he will understand just how much I loved him and how I did not want him to be adopted.”
Read Terri’s story in Closer magazine >
I met my husband on my hen night!
Catherine Kurn was about to marry and was on her hen night when she bumped into Kristian at a nightclub.
It was to be the beginning of years of turmoil as although she’d been set on marrying her childhood sweetheart, she couldn’t get Kristian out of her mind.
Even though she did wed, over the next five years she and Kristian’s paths crossed and the attraction never disappeared.
Finally the couple did get together and eventually married.
Their amazing and romantic story appeared in BELLA magazine and also in the DAILY MIRROR.
THE TEARS BEHIND MY WEDDING DAY
Claire Faulkner and husband Chris contacted me to sell their story to a magazine.
Tragically mum of two Claire was recovering from breast cancer and was newly single when she met Chris.
But as she planned her wedding to Chris, she had some devastating news – the cancer had returned.
Despite this, and further treatment, the couple went ahead with their wedding. But the cancer has since spread even further and now they are in a race against time to find a cure.
The couple emailed me because they wanted to raise money to go for life-saving treatment in the US. Their emotional real life story was printed in WOMAN’S OWN magazine where it made the front cover.
Afterwards Chris wrote: “My wife and I were both deeply moved, it really is a wonderfully touching piece. We both wanted to pass on our thanks and let you know how very grateful we are.”
Only aged 18, but my baby has Down’s Syndrome
Paris Taylor emailed me to say, “Can you sell my story to show others that teenagers can be good mums?’
Paris was just 18 when she fell pregnant with her steady boyfriend. And, because she was so young, she considered an abortion.
But she bravely decided to have the baby. What no-one imagined was that her baby would be born with Down’s Syndrome.
It was a terrible shock and worse was to come when little Maisy-Anna suffered heart problems and had to be rushed to hospital. Nevertheless, Paris adores being a mum and wouldn’t have her life any other way.
Paris’s story was sold to BELLA magazine and has also been sold to a national newspaper.
She says: “I am so glad I made the decision to sell my story. Seeing my story in the magazine made me realise how much I had gone through. And I hope telling my story will have helped other young mums.”
I PREFERRED MYSELF FAT
Earlier in the year, I sold Malissa Jones' true story about how she lost 20 stones to the News of the World newspaper and Reveal magazine. But when I rang Malissa to see how she was, she confessed, she was very unhappy.
Saggy skin from losing so much weight meant she hated her body.
Desperate to save enough money for cosmetic surgery, she asked me, 'Can you sell my story to a magazine again?'
So Malissa's new truelife story was resold to glossy Closer magazine where she appeared on the COVER of this popular women's weekly magazine.
With Malissa's consent, It also appeared on the Daily Mail website, Mailonline.
Malissa says: 'Thank you so much for selling my story yet again to Closer magazine. I was absolutely delighted with another accurate and wellwritten story.'
Malissa's real life story has now been sold to TV and Malissa will be telling her story in an up and coming TV documentary programme.
Widowed at the age of 28 - I never thought I'd find love again…
When Helen's husband died suddenly she was absolutely devastated. She and her husband were expecting their first baby. Sadly, after his death she had a miscarriage.
But then what she thought was impossible happened - she met a new partner and they have now had a baby.
Helen Round had been approached by many journalists in the past about selling her story to a magazine.
She decided now was the right time to sell her story and when I approached several UK women's magazines they all wanted to buy it!
Finally, Helen and I decided to place her moving story with Woman mag and I am now hoping to sell Helen's story to a newspaper. Helen is happy again with a new partner
If you would like to sell your story and it's about a delicate or emotional subject, then go to the sell my story form here.
The baby with the Minnie Mouse ears…
Smiling brightly, Lucy Sharp, 4, poses in her favourite princess dress. But to mum Adele her daughter's beautiful looks are a miracle. For shortly after Lucy was born, she sprouted a pair of extra 'Minnie Mouse' ears.
Lucy's Extra 'Ears'
The extra 'ears' were bizarre birthmarks, and Adele found herself covering them with extra hats. But then the 'ears' mysteriously disappeared.
Adele's exclusive story was sold to Love it mag and as Adele also wanted to sell her story again, her truelife story was sold to the Sunday Mirror.
After her story was printed in the magazine, Adele emailed: 'My story went into Love it magazine today. The story reads really well and I am sooo pleased! I cannot thank you enough for everything you have done. I hope the story sells again in the future!'
And here's Lucy today!
You can read Adele's story in the newspaper by clicking here.
If you would like to sell a story about your child, then email me here ... alison@featureworld.co.uk
I found love at my daughter's funeral…
When Steve Tremain's 12 year old daughter, Siobhan, suddenly died, he thought life wasn't worth living. Then, at her funeral he met Rennatta - the mum of a friend of Siobhan's and gradually they fell in love.
< Steve with daughter Siobhan
Amazingly, their baby son was born on the second anniversary of Siobhan's death, turning a day that Steve always dreaded into one of joy.
Steve's emotional story was one that many magazines wanted. However, it was finally placed over two pages in Best magazine.
The story has also appeared in the Daily Mirror.
The girl who chose not to grow up
Vikki Hensley may be 23 but like Peter Pan she has chosen never to grow up. The science graduate has been anorexic
since the age of 12 and kept her weight at a constant 5 1/2 stones so she has never reached puberty.
Vikki's fascinating story was sold to Now mag where it went over two pages. Vikki also went on GMTV and her story also made the FRONT PAGE of the Daily Mail and was followed up by a double
page spread in the Daily Mail a week later.
Meanwhile, Vikki's story continues to be sold and she is currently in talks with TV producers with a view to taking part in a documentary.
Vikki is pictured (right) when she weighed just over 4 stones.Today Vikki still has the body of a 12 year old girl (left)
After it appeared Vikki said:
'Alison,
I have no hesitation in recommending your services to anyone wishing to sell their story.
Your experience has been invaluable, and from the beginning you have guided me through the process with my best interests at heart.
Thank you for handling the selling of my story in such a professional and sensitive manner. I'd have been swallowed up by the media world without you!!!'
Vikki
xxx
My SEVEN abortions...
Just why has Angela Simmons, a mum of one had SEVEN abortions? She decided
to do her emotional story for Now! magazine.
Says Angela: 'I have found doing this feature extremely therapeutic.'
Angela's real life story was also featured in the Daily Mail.
Jumping off an 80ft building saved my life
Mum Kathryn Littlewood's dramatic story about how she got so depressed she threw herself off the top of a multistorey carpark, appeared in Pick Me Up magazine.
Kathryn's incredible account of her battle to survive and get well for 17yearold daughter, Ella was also a doublepage spread in the Daily Mirror.
I'm like any other mum but I used to be a heroin addict
Sonia Young's moving story how she kicked her heroin habit to become a mum of two appeared in Bella magazine.
Sonia emailed me to say, 'I just wanted you to know that my story is in this issue of Bella. It is really well done. Thank you!
Sonia '
My disastrous love affair...
A friendship that turned into an affair sparked disaster for Lorraine, a mum of three who had been married for 21 years. For when she decided to leave her husband for her new lover, he decided to stay with his wife.
Lorraine, who had lived in with her family in a detached house, ended up alone in a rented room...
Lorraine's story recently appeared in Bella magazine and also in the Daily Mail. Have you experienced a disastrous love affair? If so, email me.
Identical twins who had cosmetic surgery together
Jo
and Kerry both hated their identical noses but didn't want to look even slightly
different so they both had nose jobs ... and when, a few years later, they
wanted a boob enlargement guess what? They went under the knife together
again. Jo and Kerrys' fascinating feature appeared in Best mag
and Sunday People supplement Take
it Easy.
I'm only 28 but my lover is 60 ...
Heidi Rogers, 28, was just 18 she met Mick Burns, 32 years older than she is, whilst working as a barmaid.
Aged 21, they became lovers and moved in together. But, as Heidi explained to Best and More magazines, some people are still shocked to discover her partner is 60.
Heidi's story has also appeared in leading women's magazines in Australia and New Zealand.
HELP! My mum's turning into a real life Barbie Doll!
Who could believe Jan Beshaw is 42 and a mum to two grownup kids?
Everyone agrees Jan looks fantastic for her age. But, when Jan lost the full use of her arm after a tummy tuck op, daughter Daisy, 21, told That's Life magazine she felt her mum's quest for perfection was now going a little too far ...
I was too fat for sex...
Katey MacAuliffe managed to lose a staggering 13 stones on a healthy eating plan.
Getting slim changed her life... until she lost weight she was a virgin. But the new slim Katey then met her husband to be...
Katey's story was published in Reveal. She also appeared in the Sunday Mirror.
Teen Mums ...
When Hollie Elliot got pregnant at 17,she couldn't help worrying how she would cope.
Hollie, who has a beautiful little girl, Destiny, told her story to Real People magazine.
Meanwhile, Tracee Whelan Prosser, reassured Hollie how being a mum at 17 turned out fine for her with her children now growing up Tracee, 32, has returned to college to study fashion photography.
Betrayed by my Toyboy Husband
Andrea Gordon emailed Featureworld in her lunch hour. Against her mum and older children's advice, she'd married Kevin, 13 years younger than her, and been devastated because he'd gone off with another woman.
Andrea told me she was so upset and bitter, she didn't know where to turn. We had lots of chats about what had happened and after a lot of thought, we chose Take a Break magazine to run Andrea's story, which appeared over two pages.
Says Andrea: 'It is without doubt the best thing I've ever done.
The feature was so accurate and brought total closure to a dreadful time.
It's enabled me to put the whole thing behind me and finally to move on with my life.'
The killer next door ...
June Gentleman thought her neighbour was simply indulging in some noisy DIY. In fact, he was busy cutting up the bodies of women he murdered.
He then hid the body parts in dustbins around the estate where she lived. June's gruesome story appeared in Best magazine and was certainly one of the more bizarre stories I've written about ..
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