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		<title>Available topics of Condensed Classics series</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For our forthcoming Condensed Classics series, we are looking for manuscripts pertaining to these world philosophers and thinkers.The manuscript will be discussing each philosopher/thinker&#8217;s significant contributions, excerpts of important works, current relevancy, and brief biography. For details on how to submit a manuscript, please refer to this previous post &#8220;Calling for manuscripts.&#8221; St. Thomas Aquinas [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For our forthcoming Condensed Classics series, we are looking for manuscripts pertaining to these world philosophers and thinkers.The manuscript will be discussing each philosopher/thinker&#8217;s significant contributions, excerpts of important works, current relevancy, and brief biography.</p>
<p>For details on how to submit a manuscript, please refer to this previous post &#8220;<a href="http://www.writinggigs.com/2010/07/13/calling-for-manuscripts">Calling for manuscripts</a>.&#8221;</p>
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<li>St. Thomas Aquinas</li>
<li>Aristotle</li>
<li>Sir Francis Bacon</li>
<li>Jeremy Bentham</li>
<li>George Berkeley</li>
<li>Auguste Comte</li>
<li>Democritus</li>
<li>Rene Descartes</li>
<li>John Dewey</li>
<li>Denis Diderot</li>
<li>Friedrich Engels</li>
<li>Epictetus</li>
<li>Epicurus</li>
<li>George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel</li>
<li>Martin Heidegger</li>
<li>Heraclitus</li>
<li>Thomas Hobbes</li>
<li>David Hume</li>
<li>Edmund Husserl</li>
<li>William James</li>
<li>Immanuel Kant</li>
<li>Soren Kierkeegaard</li>
<li>Wilhelm Gottfried Liebniz</li>
<li>Locke</li>
<li>Lucretius</li>
<li>Nicollo Machiavelli</li>
<li>Maimonides</li>
<li>Marcus Aurelius</li>
<li>Karl Marx</li>
<li>John Stuart Mill</li>
<li>Baron de Montesquieu</li>
<li>George Edward Moore</li>
<li>Sir Thomas More</li>
<li>Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche</li>
<li>Parmenides</li>
<li>Blaise Pascal</li>
<li>Plato</li>
<li>Pythagoras</li>
<li>Jean Jeaques Rousseau</li>
<li>Bertrand Russell</li>
<li>Jean Paul Satre</li>
<li>Arthur Schopenhauer</li>
<li>Adam Smith</li>
<li>Socrates</li>
<li>Benedict Spinoza</li>
<li>Thales of Miletus</li>
<li>Francois Marie Aronet Voltaire</li>
<li>Alfred North Whitehead</li>
<li>Ludwig Wittgenstein</li>
<li>Zeno the Stoic</li>
<li>George Orwell</li>
<li>John Maynard Keynes</li>
<li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li>
<li>Rabindranath Tagore</li>
<li>Hayek</li>
<li>Gandhi</li>
<li>Herbert Spencer</li>
<li>Karl Marx</li>
<li>Emile Durkheim</li>
<li>Max Weber</li>
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		<title>Calling for manuscripts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WritingGigs.com is a bulletin board of a sister company of Afton Institute, LLC . We are an online publisher of practical electronic books based in the Far East of San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California. In our well-funded growing startup publishing company, we continuously hire writers and editors, as well as acquiring professionally-written and well-researched [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WritingGigs.com</strong> is a bulletin board of a sister company of Afton Institute, LLC . We are an online publisher of practical electronic books based in the Far East of San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California.</p>
<p>In our well-funded growing startup publishing company, we continuously hire writers and editors, as well as acquiring professionally-written and well-researched manuscripts of practical, how-to, and condensed books. A typical electronic book is of 30,000 words length, approximately 100 to 120 published pages.</p>
<p>At the moment, we are looking forward to acquire manuscripts in the following <strong>categories</strong>.<span id="more-5"></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Condensed classics (world philosophers and thinkers)</li>
<li>Biographies (celebrities, intellectuals, businesspeople, and inventors)</li>
<li>How-to (things that would make our lives easier)</li>
<li>Starting a career</li>
<li>Starting a business</li>
<li>Dating and relationship</li>
<li>Happiness</li>
<li>Getting rich (unusual how-to get rich tips, but not get-rich quick schemes)</li>
<li>Self-help and motivational (other than on happiness, dating and relationship)</li>
<li>Internet success (success stories of Internet businesses)</li>
</ol>
<p>Our goal is to publish 1,000 ebook titles in the first stage of our startup development.</p>
<p><strong>Do you have what we are looking for?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>College/university professors, topic experts, and published professional writers and bloggers who are familiar with a specific topic.</li>
<li>Completely written manuscripts of the above topics (word length: 30,000 words) upon agreed timeframe (usually 60 days).</li>
<li>The manuscript will follow certain guidelines and template to ensure uniformity and quality.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>How can you apply?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Submit a query on the topic you have chosen. Pitch with substance and style, impress us.</li>
<li>Submit a cover letter specifying why you are the right person to write the ebook.</li>
<li>Submit a professional resume or CV specifying your writing experiences.</li>
<li>Include writing samples in PDF format (other formats will be deleted automatically by our email system).</li>
<li>Email condenze@gmail.com</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>If you&#8217;re accepted, then what?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You will be requested to sign an agreement on finishing the agreed manuscript within 60 days.</li>
<li>Upon acceptance of the completed manuscript, you will be requested to sign a publishing agreement, in which you will be receiving 15% royalty of sales price.</li>
<li>Royalties will be paid quarterly.</li>
</ul>
<p>Currently available topics will be posted on this site. Please check back often.</p>
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