Victor D. López, Author

I've previously posted the first five chapters in two separate podcasts available here and elsewhere, and today I'd like to provide some additional information that can help place the novel and its narrative in context. The narrative itself is fiction based on actual events. Beyond the tension, humor, drama, romance, and personal and professional struggles in the narrative, the underlying themes a...

Lectura de un verso libre en  homenaje a mi madre.

Esta es una lectura de un poema escrito inmediatamente después de la muerte de mi padre. Tanto en el dolor como en la alegría a lo largo de toda mi vida he recurrido a la poesía. Mis padres y yo tuvimos una relación muy especial a lo largo de mi vida. Ambos tuvieron vidas extremadamente difíciles que incluyeron tener que vivir a través de dos guerras: la Guerra Civil Española y sus secuelas y la g...

This is a reading of another free-verse poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) collection.

This is a reading of one of my free-verse poems from my recent collection, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2). 

This is a sample reading of a portion of one of the short stories in my Echoes of the Mind's Eye: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories collection. I hope you enjoy it. 

This podcast is a reading of one of the poems from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk book of poems. It is a poem about love, regret and wisdom come too late.  #love #love_poem #regret 

Este es uno de los poemas de mi segundo libro de poesía, "Echoes of Dawn at Dusk". Fue originalmente escrito en inglés. La traducción del al español es mía. 

This podcast is a brief presentation from a scholarly article I am presenting this month at the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual academic conference dealing with the problem of notarial fraud.  Unlike notaries public in the overwhelming majority of nations around the world that follow the prevalent civil law legal system, U.S. notaries public are not required to be highl...

This poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection was written in response to my coming across two statements made by Che Guevara quoted in the poem. It is my response to him and to all those who proudly wear his likeness on their t-shirts across college campuses and elsewhere world-wide. As good old Charlie Brown might utter, "SIGH - My stomach hurts."

Este podcast contiene una de las seis partes de mi poema en verso libre, Héroes Desconocidos. Esta parte concierne a mi abuela materna, Remedios.

Esta es la primera parte de un poema de seis partes, Héroes Desconocidos, sobre mis abuelos y padres que vivieron vidas increíblemente difíciles sin quejarse ni esperar elogios, levantándose a sí mismos por sus propios medios, y superando tragedias y dificultades que aplastarían a los humanos inferiores, como este, su nieto, que nunca podría ser su igual. Esta imperfecta traducción del ingles orig...

Maria was my paternal grandmother and one of my unsung heroes. She was left with four small children to fend for herself when her husband, my paternal grandfather, self-exiled to Argentina during the Spanish Civil War after being warned that his arrest was imminent due to his support of the failed Republic and opposition to fascism. For the better part of two decades,  my grandmother was left...

This podcast is a reading of a poem about my paternal grandfather, who faced nearly 20 years of exile in Argentina for his support of the doomed Republic during the Spanish Civil War, leaving behind a wife and four children, one of whom would die at the age of three from meningitis in his absence.

This podcast contains my reading of the first two pages of the 10 short stories in my Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories collection. The book is available at most booksellers in eBook and paperback versions, and well as an audiobook from Audible and Amazon (read by voice talent Dale M. Wilcox).

This is a reading of one of the new poems in my recently published second volume of poetry, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk. I hope you enjoy it.

This podcast is a reading of the last two parts of my longest free-verse poem, Unsung Heroes. It is about my mom and dad who both had very difficult lives from earliest childhood until their deaths including living through the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War that caused the death and exile of their fathers, living under dictatorships on two continents, pulling themselves by their bootstraps to...

This is a simple introductory lecture on copyright law based on two of my books, Copyright Law: A Practical Guide (C) 20218 and Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets (C) 2013. Both are available in eBook and paperback editions from Amazon and other booksellers. I should note that this is not a formal lecture from one of my graduate or und...

Un cuento de ciencia ficción sobre un mundo en un futuro no muy lejano donde un hombre está siendo juzgado por el último crimen penado por muerte en un planeta mediante el mundo entero.

This podcast features a sampling from my newest book of poems, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2). I hope will find something to like in this eclectic collection.

Una lectura de poesía original, parte de la cual ha aparecido en mis dos libros de poesía anteriores: Echoes of Dawn at Dusk [ecos del alba al anochecer] y Of Pain and Ecstasy [de dolor y éxtasis]. 

This podcast includes a reading of my poem "Mi Canto" in the original Spanish version and in my English Translation. It runs for approximately four minutes.

This short podcast contains a reading of one of the poems in my recently published book, Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2). If you prefer reading the actual text and my commentary, you can find it in one of the book bubbles on a number of my books (fiction, poetry and non-fiction) at https://bublish.com/author/victorlopez. As always, thank you for listening. Victor #poetryreading...

This episode contains the complete reading of the shortest story in my Echoes of the Mind's Eye: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories collection. I hope you will enjoy it.

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