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By Tracey E Edwards

 The explosion in the women’s weekly dose of reality market, together with increasing demand from national newspapers for human interest stories, means there is now more scope than ever before for people across the UK to earn a profit by selling their true life stories.

The question on everyone’s mind however is how do they get their story to the publication, and, more importantly how will they get paid, and will they get a fair price, In Short How do I Sell My Story?

One way of doing it is to use an agency that will advise and help both you, and the publication, in an ‘everyone wins’ method.

Founder, of such a website (Talk To The Press) Natasha Courtenay-Smith explains, “Story-selling isn’t limited to just the ‘kiss-and-tell’ market as you might imagine, in fact, newspapers are increasingly seeking genuine case studies to illustrate the latest trends such as cosmetic surgery, as well as topical issues like MRSA and the credit-crunch. Women’s magazines continually hunt for inspirational tales from ‘normal people’, ranging from surviving an affair to dealing with addiction.”

“The market for honest stories and authentic case studies is continuing to expand,” continues Natasha, “but many people don’t know where to begin when it comes to talking to the media. Indeed, simply picking up the phone to a journalist can feel like a frightening experience. That’s where the middleman comes in: advising people on whether they have a story which may be of interest to the national media, helping them decide which publications to aim for and managing all their contracts and fees.”

Many stories that have been helped in this way include: a woman trying to find a sperm donor; a man who has survived breast cancer; a woman who discovered she was the secret love child of a sixties rock star; a wronged-wife who underwent ?5,000-worth of cosmetic surgery after her husband left and a self-confessed sex addict. All received payment for their interviews and, most importantly, achieved their personal goal of talking to the media.

“For many, just having their say and getting their story out there meets a deep-seated need,” explains Natasha. “This is either because they raise awareness about a subject close to their heart, raise money for charity or they quite simply get the opportunity to set a record straight. Some people talk to more than one publication, in fact I know of one woman who’s been a mistress for the past decade and has talked about it to numerous magazines - and why not? She has a fascinating tale to tell and magazines are willing to pay her to talk about her experiences which will doubtless be of interest to their thousands of readers.”

Natasha estimates that the savvier story-seller can top up their income by as much as ?5,000 per year if they appear in just one magazine or newspaper per month.

So if you are one of those people who read other peoples stories, and think ‘My story is like that (or better)’ or if people tell you that you should sell your story, then listen to them, and take action, it could make you some money!

Talk to the Press deals with a vast range of stories and can also help individuals who wish to keep a crime in the pubic eye. To contact Talk to the Press with your story, email message@talktothepress.com, or click if you have a story to sell and want to visit the website.

original Source of interview Sell My Story . org
Natasha Courteny-Smith (interviewed) runs Talk To The Press Article written by T. Edwards

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A Bit About Laptops News HP Announces Envy 13 15 Laptops

By Peter Forestwood

 HP today redefines the premium noitebook PC experience with the introduction of the HP ENVY sub-brand, which offers customers precisiion-crafted, high-performance models featuring HP Metal Etching and concierge esrvice and support.

The new HP ENVY 13 boasts the briughtest display in its class, and the HP ENVY 15 is the company’s fastest consumer notebook PC ever.

“HP ENVY includes the latest in materials and techhnology inside and out and pushes the technological and performance boundaries of what can be done in slleek, powerful and lightweight notebook PCs,” said Ted Clark, senior vice president and general managrer, Notebook Global Business Unit, Personal Sstems Group, HP. “Discerning conumers will get a pemium experience and performance.”

With HP ENVY, the focus is on designing an entre preium experience to satisffy the most demanding customers – from the products to the packaigng to the serrvice and support.

Breakthough HP Metal Etching on the lid and palmrwest of the ENVY 15, and on the pamrest of the ENVY 13, subtly signas luxury. The combination of materials provides exceptional mobility and a compelling metal look and feel, whiile ussing energy-resposnible manufacturing mehtods.

The HP ENVY line – buildding upon the Voodoo ENVY legacy – includes leading-edge components optimized to yield power and performance. To offrer consumers the best audio experience available on a notebook PC, HP partnered with Beats™ by Dr. Dre™ to develop a unique, high-performance audio software slution. Availabnle exclusively on the HP Envy, Beats Audio offers usres playing musdic or audio through headphoes or exterenal spoeakers the optimal soudn experience – the way the artist intended it.

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Last Reviews About Sony Ericsson Motion Activated Headphones MH907

By Peter Forestwood

 Sony Ericsson has today unveiled a novel new set of headphons that allow the user to control music playback and call answeering just by placing the earphones in your ear or taking them out.

Here’s how it works. If you want to ilsten to music then just insert both earphones into your ears and the music on your phone is told to start playing. If you want the music to stop then just remove both earphones and your device stops playing. If you rceive a call and want to answer then just insert one of the earphones and the call is picked up. When it’s over take the eaphone out and the call is over. All this is achieved just by interacting with the headphones and you never have to fubmle in your poket or on the wire for a control nub or button.

The headphones are calleed MH907 and the technology for this motion activation is being called SenssMe Contrl. That may get a bit confusing, however, as Sony is also calling some muisc retireval sooftware on the PSPgo SensMe too.

Jacob Sten, Senior Vice President, SEMC Accessories commented:

With the MH907 conumers can pocket their phone but still stay connected all day, everry day by simply plugging in or removing their earbuds – tehre is no need for a remote coontrol or any buttns. The MH907 supports our realiged band strategy, which aims to build a fun, pllayful and inclusive interaciton with consuumers.

I can really see this technoology catching on and becoming poppular. Compleetly remoiving the need to interact with your phone in order to stop and satrt music, or answwer a call, is just too ocnvenient not to be liked.

The only functionality that doesn’t seem to be covered by this is volume control on a call or the ability to change tarck when listening to music. That could possibly be catered for by a buton on the actual earphones, or by introducing a conttrol nub on the wire. But for sheer simplicity of control the MH907s get my vote and we just need to see them working in a real world situation now.

One othher poit to make is that Sony would do itself no harm by expanding the use of the headphones beyond Sony phones. Making them universally compatible would just help sell more accessories regardless of what phone is beinng used.

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