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Free and cheap children’s and YA ebooks; nothing above $5.00, most $2.99 and under. Please check prices before you buy; free and on sale books do not remain indefinitely at that price.

Free

Rowan of the Wood
Directly from the author on her site
Price: FREE formats: PDF, ePub, html, mobi (for Kindle), and others.

Starfire Angels (Dark Angel Chronicles Book 1) by Melanie Nilles
Price: FREE

Next in series Broken Wings (Starfire Angels: Dark Angel Chronicles Book 2) $2.99

Cheap Reads

Children’s Books: Picture Books, Easy Readers, & Middle-Grade Books

The Tawny Scrawny Lion (Golden Books) by Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
Price: $3.99

Big Dog, Little Dog (Dr Seuss I Can Read It All By Myself) by PD Eastman
Price: $3.99

A Treasury of Curious George (8 Stories) by Margaret & HA Rey
Price: $7.24 ($0.91/story)

Big Egg (Step Into Reading) by Molly Coxe
Price: $3.99

Judy Moody Was In a Mood by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Price: $0.99

Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows
Price: $3.74 (Most of the others in this series are the same price.)

Horrid Henry’s Stinkbomb by Francesca Simon, illustrated by Tony Ross
Price: $0.89

Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald, illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds
Price: $3.89

Amber Brown Sees Red by Paula Danzinger
Price: $4.99

Tween

The Doll in the Garden: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Price: $4.46

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Price: $5.00

Guardians of Ga’Hoole: The War of the Ember by Kathryn Lasky
Price: $4.49

Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Price: $4.46

YA Fiction

Tender by Valerie Hobbs
Price: $2.99

There are three free ebooks for writers on Amazon right now, that you may want to snag for yourself. Free ebooks don’t stay free, so please check the prices before you download.

How to Write a Great Query Letter: Insider Tips and Techniques for Success by Noah Lukeman (a literary agent)
Price: FREE

Write Good or Die by various authors including MJ Rose and Douglas Clegg
Price: FREE

Smashwords Book Marketing Guide: How to Market any Book for Free by Mark Coker
Price: FREE

There are also some cheap ebooks for writers that look like they could be good deals–nothing over $4. You can download a sample before paying to see if it interests you:

Writing Technique & Inspiration

If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland (I love this book!)
Price: $3.99

Screenwriting Tricks for Authors and Screenwriters by Alexandra Sokoloff
Price: $2.99

A Book Inside: How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story by Carol Denbow
Price: $2.99

Writing Fiction For All You’re Worth: Strategies and Techniques for Taking Your Fiction to the Next Level by James Scott Bell
Price: $2.99

The Story Engine by Matt Schutt
Price: $2.99

The Story Book: a writers’ guide to story development, principles, problem resolution and marketing by David Baboulene
Price: $1.55

One Way to Write a Novel by Vicki Hinze
Price: $2.99

How to Swat the KILLER BEs Out of Your Writing: A Writing Skills Handbook on How to Write in Active Voice by Nancy Owens Barnes
Price: $2.99

From Idea to Book by Joanna Penn
Price: $0.99

Book Promotion

From Book to Market: Internet Marketing, Sales and Promotion…For Your Book by Joanna Penn
Price: $0.99

100 Ways to Market Your Book For Free (or Really Cheap) by Carol Denbow
Price: $0.99

My Book Isn’t Selling! The Chargan Book of Marketing Ideas by Philip Ragan
Price: $0.99

Reference & Prompts

The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Price: $0.99

3 Simple Words: Prompt-like Phrases To Get You Writing by David Stoddard
Price: $0.99

1000 Creative Writing Prompts by Bryan Cohen
Price: $2.99

What do you think? Do any of those books interest you? Would you like to see more posts like this?

I love good books. And I love getting good books cheaply (though I’ll pay a lot for books and authors I love). Here are some of the current cheap and free YA novels available on the Kindle.

Note: Most of these ebook prices are for US only. And, as always, check the price before you buy; some of the free or low prices are only low temporarily.

Dead Girl Walking by Linda Joy Singleton.
Price: FREE

Songs For a Teenage Nomad by Kim Culbertson
Price: FREE

Cat Calls by Cynthia Leitich Smith (Short Story)
Price: FREE

Girls to the Rescue: Book #1 by Bruce Lansky
Price: FREE

The Middle Passage by Julia Golding (Short Story)
Price: FREE

Dust by Arthur Slade
Price: $0.99

Glimmerglass by Jenna Black
Price: $2.99 (normally

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Price: $5.00 (normally $14.99)

Like Scott Westerfeld’s writing? Then you might be excited to know that you can download his Uglies ebook for free this month. The ebook is in PDF format. You just have to sign up with your email address, birthday, and zip or postal code on the Simon and Schuster site, and you’re good.

Westerfeld says that the first chapter of his new book Leviathan is included in the ebook, along with an illustration you probably haven’t seen before.

What great book promotion!

So tell me–are you going to download the ebook? I am. (smiling)

"When I tell people I write about sex, I can see immediately whether their judgment about me has changed in the second it took me to say it. Most of the time, I don’t have time to sit and explain how complex a topic we’re talking about. Now, I can just hand them this book, which asks just as many questions as it answers, and hopefully does what good sex should do: leave you wanting more."

That's Rachel Kramer Bussel explaining a little bit about her writing life. She wrote the Lusty Lady sex column for the Village Voice, and recently edited Best Sex Writing 2008--among other erotic anthologies. You can see her website for that book here.

This kind of focused, jam-packed career brings its own share of scheduling problems, and today she explains how she keeps her writing life balanced.

This is my deceptively simple feature, Five Easy Questions. In the spirit of Jack Nicholson’s mad piano player, I run a weekly set of quality interviews with writing pioneers—delivering some practical, unexpected advice about web writing.

Jason Boog

Rachel Kramer Bussel:
Well, I have to admit I laughed at bit at the last part because my stress level is way high. Continue reading...

I can't believe it's already December 20th!

I'm not ready. I haven't written my Christmas cards yet. I haven't decorated the tree (although I did get the lights strung onto it last night). I have no presents. I haven't yet BAKED!

I haven't been this behind for the holidays in years. Everything will be wonderful, I'm sure. So I'm not stressing about any of this--too much.

From my many years of experience with these holidays and especially my extensive experience with being behind on the preparations and fun, I do have a few tricks up my sleeve (well, it's the tropics, so no sleeves, but you get the idea). So at the end of the work day today, I'll be off to buy some "starter" cookies. And cheese and crackers, olives and other appetizer/party goodies.

I already have the wine. :-)

Happy holidays, everyone. And here's wishing for peace on Earth.

New FREE e-book on Artists Pitfalls. As we speak I am finishing off my first free e-book for artists, which covers some of the pitfalls when learning to paint. I hope to launch it on this blog later this week. To make sure you remember to get a copy for yourself subscribe to my Easy Updates via the subscription form on the right panel of this blog.-----------------------> This free e-book will

Ok for those who love book and love freebies here is a site for you. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page This website has tons of free books to download. They aren’t pretty but the information is there. For example type in the search box “paintings” and you will find at least 8 books. Try “How to” and you will find loads of listings. All yours Enjoy

Autism confounds researchers but one way of understanding it is to look through the lens of stress and coping. That is exactly what editors M. Grace Baron, June Groden, Gerald Groden and Lewis P. Lipsitt do in their book Stress and Coping in Autism. Contributions by researchers, clinicians, teachers, and persons living with autism illustrate how it is possible to reduce the impact of stress in autism by understanding both the science and the experience of it. Below we excerpt part of the introduction. To learn more be sure to visit our morning post, Helping Children With Autism Learn.

The construct of stress has expanded our understanding of both typical and atypical human development in a revolutionary way. Research into a number of disorders that are often comorbid with a diagnosis of autism, such as anxiety, shyness, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and thought disorder, already include a systematic theoretical and applied analysis of the contribution of stress to the disorder. Autism, in its own right, might also benefit from such a focus for a number of reasons.

Anxiety, an indicator that someone is experiencing stress, was associated with autism as early as Kanner’s (1943) first description of the syndrome. A few early clinical and research reports (e.g., Marks, 1987; Matson & Love, 1990) examined the correlation between fear and anxiety and autism. In 1994, Groden, Cautela, Prince, and Berryman presented the first systematic framework for using the concepts of stress and anxiety to describe and treat autism and proposed that those with autism may, in fact, have a special vulnerability to stress. We now have a better understanding that the clinical problems often associated with stress, such as anxiety, are more prevalent among people with pervasive developmental disabilities than in the general population.

Autism has long been seen as a problem of faulty or different arousal responses to environmental intrusions (Dawson & Levy, 1989). This has given rise to continued speculation about the role of such patterns of arousal as diagnostic markers or even indicators or subtypes of autism. As early as 1979, Piggott’s review of selected basic research in autism suggested that, “Children called autistic probably represent a complex of clinically similar manifestations in a variety of difference physiological disturbance[s]. Objective markers are needed as to allow the demarcation of subgroups of autistic children for further study” (p. 199). More recently, Tordjman, Spitz, Corinne, Carlier, and Roubertoux (1998) offered a stress-based model of autism, integrating biological and behavioral profiles of individuals wish ASD. They propose that stress and anxiety may be core problems of autism and that an analysis of differential responses to stress can lead to the identification of different subtypes. Similarly, Porges’s The Listening Project (2002) documents hyperarousal and vagal disruptions in children with autism and offers a biologically based behavioral intervention designed to stimulate the social behavior of children with autism.

Some of the known biological or behavioral effects of stress (see McEwen, 2002; Sapolsku, 1998) can be seen in persons with autism. For example, there is recent evidence (Krause, He, Gershwin, & Shoenfeld, 2002) of suppressed immune system function in some persons with autism. Under- or oversentivity to pain is a hallmark behavioral symptom for many with autism, and turbulent sensory and perceptual experiences are documented regularly in first-hand reports (e.g., Jones, Quigney, & Huws, 2003). Fur

Saqib Saddiq has our number. He's determined the occupation that suffers the most stress and it's (drumroll please) librarians. TA-DAH! Says he:

"Firefighters and police are trained to deal with the stresses that their jobs undoubtedly entail; librarians and school teachers are less likely to have these support systems in place."

Bear in mind that only 300 people were polled, of course. One wonders what kinds of librarians he looked at too. People who lump the profession into a big squishy ball often forget that the job has so many different variations. The corporate librarian won't deal with the stresses of the librarian in the public school. And the academic won't be under the pressure a cataloger might face. In America there are undoubtedly many stressed librarians, but in my personal experience I've found that teachers are some of the most pressured people I know. I vaguely wonder if anyone recently done a study of this sort in the U.S. Hm.

Here's something I did while under a bit of stress.
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