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February 11, 2021
HIRE LERNIN’ — Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Walking back to the reception area and passing the still smiling receptionist busy on the phone, Marvin led Dan to the double swinging doors marked “To Classrooms” directly ahead of them. He opened the door to the right as a few students still poured through the one on the left and held it open for Dan to follow. He then moved to his left down a corridor to what appeared to be a corner office on the left of the hallway and opened the door to a conference room. It was not what he ha...February 10, 2021
Hire Lernin’ – Chapter 4
Chapter 4
A half hour later, Dan was at the lobby of the Wang Office Building waiting for the elevator. The place was teeming with people going about their business in typical harried New York fashion. He got on the elevator and pushed the button for the fourth floor, arriving at 11:50 a.m. for his first day on the job. Taisha, the slightly plump, impeccably dressed receptionist beamed at him from behind her desk. “Welcome, Mr. Amor.” “Dan, please” Dan replied returning her warm smile. “I’m ...Sample Poetry With Poetry Readings
I’ve been having a bit of fun posting samples of my poetry on Booksie with attached mp3 poetry readings. I am a premium member of Booksie primarily because it allows me to post not only text but also accompanying audio files for short stories and poetry (not, alas, for novels as yet). Else I would post only on my blogs and Wattpad as the latter has a nicer look and feel than Booksie. If you’d like to read some samples from my current and first books of poetry and some short story excerpts as wel...
I Just Updated My Primary Web Pages
I had not posted to my primary web page, VictorDLopez.com, in some time, in great part because it is much easier to post to my secondary blogs than to my primary professional site. I landed on my home page in searching for something unrelated on the web and noticed with great annoyance that nearly all of the photos there were not working. It took me all day to figure out the reason with no help from my hosting site. At any rate, I solved the mystery (the site creation software would not recogniz...
February 9, 2021
HIRE LERNIN’ – Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
The phone rang at 9:00 a.m. the next morning as Dan was having his third cup of coffee and thinking about the prior day’s interview. He picked it up on the second ring, his heart racing, yet knowing that it could not yet be the expected phone call. “Dan speaking” he said, trying to remain calm. “Is this Mr. Amor?” A woman’s cheerful voice asked. “Yes, it is” he responded. “Please hold for Mr. Lantz.” After a few seconds, a familiar voice came on the line. “Good morning, Dan. I h...New Author Interview
AwesomeGang.com is an excellent site for independent authors. They provide both listings of new books and author interviews. They published my latest author interview at https://awesomegang.com/victor-lopez/ and also a free listing of one of my two recently released books, “Echoes of the Mind: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories”. I even had the opportunity to mention my upcoming novel, for which I’m grateful. If you are either an avid reader looking for new book releases in your areas of inte...
February 8, 2021
HIRE LERNIN’ — Chapter 2
CHAPTER 2
The next morning, Dan got up early, put on his best suit and gathered his leather portfolio, placing extra copies of his resume and undergraduate and graduate transcripts in it along with three glowing letters of reference from professors who knew him well and could vouch for his intellectual acumen and skill set. Rather than take his car into an area where parking would likely pose a problem, he opted to take the subway, leaving his home at 9:00 a.m. for what should be at most a h...Hire Lernin’ – Preface and Chapter One
Hire Lernin’
by Victor D. López
© 2021 Victor D. López
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Author’s Note
This novel is a work of fiction. Although it was born out of my slightly over one-year experience as the dean of a proprietary, for-profit business school in my first academic posting early in my career in a manner and circumstances similar to the protagonist, the...January 30, 2021
The first ten chapters from the forthcoming novel “HIRE LERNIN'” are now available for free preview
I’ve posted the tenth and last free preview chapter from my forthcoming novel online at https://www.wattpad.com/story/255625705-hire-lernin%27. (It is also available at https://www.booksie.com/users/victordlopez-82664.) That means more than 42,000 words from the roughly 91,000-word complete novel are now available for a free look. When time allows, I will do one final edit and get it published, but that likely will not be until early summer as I am very busy these days.
The novel deals with s...
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