• Award amount: $1,500
• No purchase necessary
• Deadline: ACM’s discretion

Athanatos Publishing is seeking to create a movie out of one of the books it publishes, Dr. Jamie Greening’s “The Little Girl Waits.”

‘The little girl’ in question is a young, American girl, kidnapped off the streets of the United States by human traffickers.  A pastor feels drawn to the case and enlists the help of people that are not exactly his ‘sort,’ but the ‘sort’ who are capable of giving human traffickers exactly what they deserve.

In order to make the movie, a screenplay is needed.  To that end, Athanatos Publishing is hosting this screen play writing contest.  The best screenplay will be selected and used for developing a movie version of the book.

More info:  the book is 212 pages long, does not have exotic settings or need for extensive special effects.

There is NO entry fee to enter the contest.  However, obviously if you are going to make a screen play from the book, you will somehow have to lay your hands on the book–your local library, used book store, etc is fine, but you might find it simpler to just acquire the book from Amazon: [Link].

There IS a cash award for being selected:  $1,500 USD.  This will purchase the screen play from the winner, with all rights being assigned at that time to Athanatos Publishing.  The winning writer will of course be included in the movie credits, should the movie be produced and released.

While there is NO entry fee to enter the contest, in order to obtain the rights to create a derivative from the book, you must at least register for the contest by sending an email to the publisher at athanatospublishing @ gmail.com.

Use the subject line: LGW Screenplay Contest

You may use this text, updating as necessary:

To Athanatos Publishing,

This is to inform you that I will be participating in your screenplay writing contest.  I acknowledge that the book, “The Little Girl Waits” by Jamie Greening is fully copyrighted, and while I have permission to adapt it for the purposes of the contest, I do not have the right to re-distribute it to any other party.  I understand that my rights to the screen play will be turned over to ACM when I receive the cash award, unless other terms are mutually agreed to.  It is understood that ACM cannot use my screenplay until those rights have been transferred.  But, I fully understand that ACM has disallowed my use of the screenplay beyond the parameters of this contest.

Yours sincerely,

[Insert your name here]

This will inform us that you are going to be creating a screen play from the work and serve as confirmation that we have given you the right to create a derivative work from the book, which is otherwise FULLY COPYRIGHTED.

Under the rules of this contest, you are not allowed to share your screenplay based on this movie with ANYONE except for representatives of Athanatos Publishing, WHETHER YOU WIN the contest OR NOT.

The contest will go on for as long as necessary to acquire a screenplay that Athanatos is satisfied with.  Athanatos reserves the right to end the contest without warning at its full discretion for ANY reason.  As there is no contest entry fee, there is NOTHING to be refunded to contest participants.

Thanks for your interest and involvement in this contest!

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Athanatos Ministries is hiring a salesperson.

ACM is a small publishing firm with a distinctly Christian mission.  Candidates should be thoroughly comfortable working for an organization that is boldly Christian in its outlook.

This is a ‘contract’ position, using upwork.com to facilitate payment.

Duties:

The salesperson will,

• on their own time and at their own expense, familiarize themselves with the particular product that they have been tasked to sell.
• assist in the developing of a sales/marketing program for that product.
• be prepared to generate their own leads.
• expect to be the one to follow up, by phone, with the decision makers identified via those leads.
• expect to be well compensated via commissions on sales, rather than relying on hourly wages.

The salesperson will not,

• depend on social media to make sales; we already have someone to manage our social media.  We do not need another!
• Consider this a ‘marketing’ position, so much as a ‘direct sales’ position.

While obviously the salesperson will work in coordination with our social media manager and other members of our team, I hope it is sufficiently clear that we do NOT want the salesperson to rely on social media to generate sales.

Additional expectations:

• As this is a ‘contract’ position, it is expected that the candidates will provide for themselves certain essential tools for the job, such as a telephone or some other way to make calls.
• While an hourly stipend is negotiable, the right candidate will have this attitude:  “I will make much more on commission than I would make on a stipend!  Thanks for offering the stipend, but my goal is to make it irrelevant, ASAP!”
• The right candidate will have this attitude: “I don’t need anyone to hold my hand, guiding me through the sales process. I’m insulted you had to ask.  No, I’m not going to bill you for figuring out how to do X and Y.  I understand that learning how to do that is something that I do on my own time, and frankly I want to do that, because its in my own self-interest to broaden my skill set.”
• The right candidate will have this attitude:  “I can sell ice to an Eskimo.”
• The right candidate will not have to be told that it can take quite a few ‘misses’ before there is a ‘hit,’ and has the understanding that that is just part of the job.

Furthermore:

• The right candidate will not need to be told what to do.  The right candidate will see what needs to be done, and do it.
• While there is some measure of coordination with the rest of the ACM staff, it is not only expected that the candidate will be comfortable picking up the ball and running on his own, it is strongly desired.
• The right candidate will revel in the freedom of being able to work on his or her own schedule, and relishes the idea that whether or not money is earned is tied to their own efforts, rather than just ‘punching a clock.’

Due to the nature of the products to be sold and the general strategy we have for selling those products, there is good reason for the right candidate to believe that this could be full time position, making very good money.  However, we do not expect the right candidate to be full time.  Part time is sufficient, provided that the sales generated sufficiently surpass whatever labor and expenses ACM pays to sustain the position.

Interested candidates will send an email to Anthony Horvath at athanatosgroup @ gmail dot com.

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