Tag: Star magazine

Those Were The Days: Writing Fun Fiction For The Star

The trouble with death cleaning is that it’s too much of a walk down memory lane. Those were the days, you think as you try to decide which clutter to toss. It’s difficult –especially when you come across your first forays into writing fiction.

As I blogged last week, delving into boxes full of old papers and documents produced a whole bunch of acceptance letters for “confessional” stories I’d written when I was living in the U.K.

Death Cleaning Discovery, Part 2

It also produced this 10th anniversary issue of Star magazine (below) from May 1984 — which took me right back to the days of writing fun fiction for that tabloid. Continue reading “Those Were The Days: Writing Fun Fiction For The Star”

Inside Story of Confidential, the First Celebrity Scandal Magazine

You probably need to be an octogenarian like my husband, Joe  to remember Confidential, the granddaddy of celebrity scandal magazines.

I certainly don’t remember the magazine which had its heyday in the 1950s although I do remember its progeny like Silver Screen, Modern Screen, and Screenland.

These were American fan magazines which I could buy in London way past their publication dates. They were sold in a small, newsagent’s shop in Ealing located on my route home from school (Tube ride from the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith to South Ealing station, then a half-mile walk to my house.) I was 11, and journeyed to school and back on my own. I had plenty of time to linger at magazine racks. Continue reading “Inside Story of Confidential, the First Celebrity Scandal Magazine”