Victor D. López, Author

This is a simple book trailer for my Mindscapes short story collection with my reading of the first two pages of each short story. The book is available in eBook and print versions as well as a professionally produced audiobook version read by voice talent Dale Wilcox. You can preview versions at Amazon and Audible . As always, thank you for listening.

Translated from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Vol. 2) (C) 2021, 2024

This is the shortest story in my Echoes of the Mind's Eye science fiction / speculative fiction short story collection. It involves the last remaining crime punishable by death in a fully connected world in which opting out is simply not an option.

Este es el cuento más corto de mi colección de cuentos Echoes of the Mind's Eye , traducido e incluido en mi colección de cuentos Libro de Sueños .

My advice for new writers.

This is a brief paper presentation based on one of my articles published this spring in the North East Journal of Legal Studies (Vol. 44, Article 1, 2024) that deals with the problem of unscrupulous notaries public who engage in the unauthorized practice of law and prey upon unsuspecting foreign-born individuals who mistakenly believe U.S. notaries public to be highly trained lawyers who have succ...

May we never forget the true purpose of Memorial Day. May God bless our fallen men and women in uniform and their families. May we never forget the debt of honor we owe them all.

This is a reading of Parts 5 and 6 of my longest free-verse poem, Unsung Heroes, about the lives of quiet heroism and self-reliance in overcoming adversity. The first four parts of the poem deal with the lives of my grandparents, and the last two read here of my parents. As I note in the introduction to the poem: Although I stand on the shoulders of giants, I see little farther than the bridge of...

A reading of my original poem Mi Canto in Spanish followed by my English Translation.

Poem

Although poetry represents a minuscule amount of my published writing which is mostly non-fiction, it has been and remains close to the core of who I am as an author. In this podcast I will read samples of my sonnets from my two books of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk (C) 2021 and Of Pain and Ecstasy (C) 2011. I hope you may find at least some of these to your liking. As always, thank you for liste...

This is a sample sonnet reading from my second book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems, Volume Two (C) 2021.

A teaser poem for my short story, Amor Vincit Omnia.

I am posting some English and Spanish version readings from my novel Hire Lernin’: An Idealist’s Quest Through the Realm of for-Profit Education here and elsewhere and wanted to provide some general background for the novel. I hope you will sample and enjoy my cold readings from the novel.

La entrevista continua . . .

Chapter 5: Meeting the Faculty

his novel involves the bittersweet journey of a young, idealistic, naïve attorney who takes on the role of academic dean at a for-profit business school in New York City in the late 1980s knowing very little about the industry. Unable to accept the way things are, he immediately launches into a personal quest to change lives for the better in an environment where only the bottom-line matters. Hard...

This is a cold reading from my novel, Hire Lernin’: An Idealist’s Quest Through the Realm of for-Profit Education (C) 2021, 2024.

This is a reading from the first two chapters of my novel about an idealistic young lawyer hired as the dean of a for-profit business school knowing next to nothing about the industry. Unwilling to accept things as they are, he launches on a personal quest to implement meaningful changes, achieving in the process unprecedented professional success, devastating personal loss, and some profound less...

A Thanksgiving Message

Esta es una traducción del autor de los dos primeros capítulos de su novela Hire Lernin' (C) 2021 traducida al español. La versión completa en inglés de la novela y la traducción al español en curso están disponibles de forma gratuita en el siguiente enlace: https://www.royalroad.com/profile/368939/fictions .