Recently Published Stories – 2012
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These are some Stories sold and published recently through Featureworld…
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As a ‘Sell my Story’ website, we deal with many stories for national newspapers, magazines and television. Here are just a few real life stories we have sold so far this year…
One Family’s £5million debt… story in the DAILY MAIL
People don’t always ‘sell a story’ for money – quite often they have other reasons for wanting their story to be in a newspaper, magazine or on TV.
Charles and Iona Cole contacted me because they believed they were being treated badly by the banks.
Once life for the Coles was great. They lived in a £2.25 million Manor House within 414 acres and rented out 84 buy to let houses. Meanwhile, their four children all went to public schools.
But when school fees rose and they needed to raise some extra cash, Charles made a disastrous investment.
He took out a £3.3million loan against the Manor House and his buy to let business. Then he invested the money on what appeared to be a promising property development opportunity in Romania.
But the promised building in Romania never materialised and now, with interest added to the loan, it stands at almost £5million.
The bank now wants its loan to be repaid – if the Coles cannot repay the loan the bank has told them it will repossess not only their beloved family home but also their business.
Charles said: “Alison wrote our story and it appeared exactly as she said it would. We have been shocked by the bank’s callous attitude to us – we are pursuing a legal case for compensation and feel they should give us more time before repossessing our family home.
“ We were amazed it was so huge in the paper and the enormous response to it but we are glad to get the story out into the public domain and we hope this way we might get to the bottom of where the money went to.”
Their story went over two pages in the Daily Mail and the family also appeared on ITV’s Daybreak. Read it here>
Dare I love my husband’s best friend?... Story in TAKE A BREAK magazine.
Jackie Dyer was married for 23 years when during a night out her husband Ron went to break up a fight and was himself attacked.
Doctors believed he might die but although he pulled through, he was left with brain damage – paralysed down one side of his face.
Jackie became Ron’s full-time carer but the Ron she’d known was no longer there and she wept as she realised her marriage was over.
At the same time she became more reliant on Bernard. Bernard was Ron’s best friend and he was always there to help Jackie care for him.
Gradually the two fell for one another – but there was one problem. Bernard was married.
Eventually though they couldn’t keep their love secret any longer and Bernard left his wife moving in with Jackie and Ron. The three even went on holiday together and Ron adored Bernard.
Sadly complications from the original assault led to Ron’s health deteriorating and he died. But fortunately Bernard and Jackie were able to grieve together and finally wed.
Jackie wanted to sell her story to help promote her book. In the Blink of an Eye was credited in the magazine and is available from Lulu.com.
Jackie’s story is now due to appear in another magazine and a national newspaper.
Featureworld interviewees go on television…
ITV This Morning’s Fatima Whitbread is helping Featureworld interviewee Dwain Smith – whose story appeared in Closer magazine – to lose weight.
Dwain, 20, had his hopes of a gastric bypass dashed because, due to funding, his NHS Trust no longer does gastric ops.
But as well as a magazine deal, Featureworld put Dwain forward for a weightloss programme with ITV.
Dwain says: “Selling my story to a magazine was amazing but appearing on national television has been incredible. “
Dwain on ITV's "This Morning"
ITV Daybreak was the destination for mum Gill Fletcher, a former alcoholic. Featureworld originally gained a deal with Bella magazine for Gill to talk about how she overcame her binge drinking. Then through Featureworld she appeared in the Daily Mail, The Sun and now national television.
Gill says: “Going on TV was fantastic. One of the highlights was meeting Dr Hilary Jones, who was very supportive and with whom I got on really well. It was a once in a lifetime experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it.”
Gill on ITV Daybreak
Do you have a story to sell to the press – whether you would like to sell your story to a magazine, newspaper or television – why not go to the Sell My Story form and see if you have a story to sell?
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