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Relationships, relationships

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

A magazine is looking for a woman aged 20-35, who’s happy to talk about her experiences with a male escort and how using one helped her get over the heartbreak of a relationship break-up.

A Sunday supplement is urgently looking for a woman  who’s given up dating younger men. She’s now settled down – or is trying to find – a man her own age.

And a magazine is looking for men aged 18 to 25 who love dating an older woman.

If you fit the bill for any of the above, you could be selling your story with sellthatstory.com

Email us at info@sellthatstory.com

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Baby brain? Cosmetic surgery regrets?

Friday, March 26th, 2010

A weekly magazine is looking for women who have been affected by ‘Baby Brain’  while pregnant. 

Symptoms are forgetfulness, making silly mistakes or getting in trouble because their brain is affected by their pregnancy, or just after giving birth.

Maybe they’ve set the kitchen on fire, left a shop with out paying and had the police arrive.

Is this you, or someone you know?  Email info@sellthatstory.com

Or have you had a lot of cosmetic surgery and now regret it? 

A Sunday supplement is looking for such a woman, aged 25 to 40, who will talk about why she did it and why she now wishes she’d never started altering her looks.

Email info@sellthatstory.com

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What makes men attractive?

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

heather-stottAngela admits she’s not as clever as she thought, and she didn’t like her recent TV appearance.

She was in conversation this morning with BBC Radio Manchester’s Heather Stott.

She told how “brave” pals texted their full and frank comments  about her hair, nails, make-up etc as Channel 4 broadcast it’s Cutting Edge programme.

But, more importantly Heather wanted to know, did she agree that certain people have the “sex factor”?

Listen and find out.

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Caught in the age trap for cervical cancer checks

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

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It’s a year since Jade Goody died of cervical cancer.

Her plight aroused huge debate on the government’s screening programme in England, which is available only to women aged 25 or over.

Stacey Davies, a beauty therapist from Manchester, is 22.  Despite her mum having had a cervical cancer scare, her GP has repeatedly told her she’s too young for the smear test.

And she’s unable to get the HPV vaccine which is now routinely given to schoolgirls, because she’s too old.

Stacey’s story appears in today’s Sunday Express thanks to SellThatStory.

If you have a story to tell- and a story to sell – click here and see how SellThat Story can help you.

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Lost in translation: SellThatStory hits the Italian press

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Did I really say that?

It’s interesting seeing yourself interviewed by a foreign newspaper.  And then translated into a version of English by a Google computer.

What follows is part of a story that appears in the Italian newspaper La Stampa.  I’m sure it’s a good account of true life magazines in Britain, and how agencies like SellThat Story operate.

But I think that something has been lost in translation!

“The players are human beings and are curious about what happens to people like them, meet them and work to be a reporter, a challenge as old as the profession,” says John Jeffay, signing the former Manchester Evening News and cootitolare with Angela Epstein of the newly Sell That Story of Manchester.

He was responsible for covering the story, then bounced up to the first night of Fox, the small Tianna Lewis McHugh, the child of two years with a rare disease that prevented her from crying, pain of death. Facing the pain of others, why the American writer Susan Sontag, the camera stops the moment.

To read the full, fascinating account click here.

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How many partners?

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A national newspaper is looking to interview a woman in her early 20s who’s had a lot more sexual partners than her mum.

 The mother was probably a child of the Swinging 60s, but a poll has shown that the majority of women of that generation probably only had a couple of partners before  the age of 24. 

Today’s early 20-somethings have had nearly five times that number.  Both would need to be photographed and talk about their attitudes to sex.

“I want sell my story”  . . . . it’s just a click away at SellThatStory.com

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Tell us about your revenge on a man!

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Been badly let down by a man and thinking “I’d like to sell my story”?

A weekly magazine is looking for women who have been driven to taking extreme revenge on their ex-boyfriends.

Perhaps you’ve publicly humiliated him by putting up posters or created a fake website in his name.

Or destroyed his favourite things or ruined his wardrobe. Anything that will make a reader secretly cheer and think he got what he deserved!

You’ll need to be 22-34.

Sell your story – email info@sellthatstory.com

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Secrets for sale

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

real-peopleThere seems to be a sudden flurry of interest in true life magazines.

Tomorrow night it’s Channel 4’s Cutting Edge programme, My Daughter Grew Another Head and Other True Life Stories.

Last night (Tuesday 2 March) BBC1 showed Secrets For Sale, a fly-on-the-wall look at how the workings of the Real People magazine.

It featured everyday tales of British folk: Beryl is blinded by a sausage, Maureen is paralysed by a worm and Sarah’s orgasm made her brain explode.

Timed as it was, just two days before Channel 4’s offering, it had the feel of what’s known in the trade as a spoiler – stealing somebody else’s thunder.

Nonetheless it got close up and personal with editor Samm Taylor and her team, as they teased “the truth” from their subjects and agonised over the cover lines that would stand them out from a dozen other mags on the newsagent’s rack.

If you watched the programme and thought: “How can I sell my story?” then email us at info@sellthatstory.com or give us a call on 0161 660 9404.

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Wayne Bridge spits out his dummy

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

wayne-bridgeIf Wayne Bridge is looking for sympathy he’d better look elsewhere.

Angela has made her views abundantly clear in her Manchester Evening News column this week, and attracted a record number of responses online.

“In letting his territorial approach to an already shattered love life spill onto the pitch, he showcased an outrageous lack of professionalism,” she thunders. “ As an act of spitting out the dummy, it takes some beating.”

Refusing to shake his hand was, she says, “weak and petulant”. I’m guessing she’s  not too impressed with his on-pitch snub to John Terry, the bloke wot pinched his bird.

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An Independent view of SellThatStory

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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SellThatStory appears in The Independent today.  They’re looking at the appeal of true life stories, ahead of Thursday’s Channel 4 Cutting Edge programme. Angela is featured in the programme, talking about SellThatStory came about, how we operate, what sort of stories we cover, and how. Click here to read the whole article.  An estimated 7 million people a week read real-life mags, and there’s a constant thirst for amazing stories.

If you’re wondering “How do I sell my story?” the answer’s just a click away.

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