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Download these free clickable and printable e-books from Strong Bat Productions' MarketsForWriters.com Press.

Ebook Candidates

Ebook Why I Vote


The Lighter Side of Election, Care of Candidate Zero

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Click here to see if you've got the skills to be President - you know, the lightenin' quick arrow keys and the fearless ability to collect votes by eating stars in a maze while dodging voracious cartoon Democrats and Republicans. If you first collect a ticket, button, picket, or cup of coffee then you can win 50 votes by swaying each Democrat or Republican in your favor - AKA eating them Pac-Man-style. (Ms. Pac-Man-style for the ladies.) The game's wahka-wahka-wahka sound is worth it alone.

Nonpartisan Parody: CANDIDATE ZERO is a one-platform pol who knows how to bond with potential voters ("I've always wanted to try yoga"; "Tiramisu is never as good as you think it's going to be"). He's got his own bio ("I invented the after-hours party") and his own mockumentary clips from the mock campaign trail where he mockingly mocks about himself and our "beautiful land of freedom, where woodchucks can chuck and the deer can do...whatever it is that deer like to do." Added bonus: Real footage of a hopping monkey. It's a monkey. But it's hopping.

Free Resources For Young Voters

Thanks for your interest in downloading these free e-books from Strong Bat's MarketsForWriters.com Press. They've got everything you need to vote November 2nd for the future you want.

DOWNLOADING THE COMPRESSED BOOKS: We recommend downloading our compressed files of the books. They download faster and always give you the option to save the file to your computer, as opposed to viewing it in your browser. After you download each compressed file, your computer will decompress it automatically, or you can just double-click on it yourself to expand it into the book.


MAC-USERS, click here to download the ".sit" compressed file of the candidate book: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-candidates.pdf.sit (411K)

PC-USERS, click here to download the ".zip" compressed file of the candidate book: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-candidates.pdf.zip (407K)

FOR AN UNCOMPRESSED VERSION, click here to download the book as a pdf: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-candidates.pdf (480K)


MAC-USERS, click here to download the ".sit" compressed file of the Why I Vote book: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-whyvote.pdf.sit (228K)

PC-USERS, click here to download the ".zip" compressed file of the Why I Vote book: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-whyvote.pdf.zip (225K)

FOR AN UNCOMPRESSED VERSION, click here to download the Why I Vote book as a pdf: http://www.marketsforwriters.com/freebook-whyvote.pdf (254K)

TO BEST VIEW THE BOOKS, USE ADOBE ACROBAT 6, which is available for free download from Adobe. The books work all right in Acrobat 4 and 5, too, but are definitely more effective in Acrobat 6.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have trouble downloading the book, let us/me know and we'll troubleshoot for you. (atedesco @ marketsforwriters.com - remove spaces)

Thanks very much,
Anthony Tedesco, founder of the Presidential Youth Debates

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The Student Publishing Program aims to be a national nonprofit creative writing program which gives secondary students the writing skills and confidence needed to be published, and then secures the professional publication and promotion of their compositions - one piece of poetry or prose from every student in the grade - in a network of online literary magazines and a series of paperback books available in bookstores nationwide. One hundred percent of royalties from each school's book sales help fund future program participation for that school's students.

The Student Publishing Program supports language arts standards and benchmarks through in-class workshops with professional writers and supplementary online creative writing and publishing resources. The publications also help students at all learning levels demonstrate their academic merit - to themselves and to the community at-large - beyond grades and standardized test scores.

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