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The first eight chapters from my forthcoming novel now available for free preview

The first complete eight chapters from my forthcoming novel, Hire Lernin’, are now available on Wattpad at https://www.wattpad.com/story/255625705-hire-lernin%27 and also on Booksie at https://www.booksie.com/644807-hire-lernin.

HIRE LERNIN’ Chapter 7 just published

You can access chapters 1-7 on Wattpad at https://www.booksie.com/644807-hire-lernin?fbclid=IwAR2mgcHCWgQt2gJO1wb_SYW4eBBNEtVDQ4rxWnjJFfaCMhLOgZTQ0m_IdqU and also on Booksie at https://www.booksie.com/644807-hire-lernin.

HIRE LERNIN’ – Chapter six now available

I just posted chapter 6 of my upcoming novel to Wattpad and Booksie. Yopu can access it through links I previously provided, and you can access all posted chapters at Wattpad at https://www.wattpad.com/story/255625705-hire-lernin%27. Please note that at both Boosksie and Wattpad, you can click on any specific posted chapter (these are all complete, not mere previews). If you click on the Author’s Note or Chapter 1, you can navigate through the chapters in order by clicking the link at the bottom...

Hire Lernin’ – Chapter five just posted on Wattpad and Booksie

I just posted Chapter 5 of my new novel. You can access all posted novels at the following links:

Wattpad

Booksie

If you like the story so far, please share links to it with anyone you think might enjoy it too. Thank you!

If you would like to preview portions of my published fiction and non-fiction books and scholarly articles (including some readings of fiction and poetry by me) you can visit https://www.wattpad.com/user/VictorDLopez and https://www.booksie.com/users/victordlopez-82...

Hire Lernin’ – Chapters 1-4 now available

I just posted Chapter 4 of my new novel. You can access all posted novels at the following links:

Wattpad

Booksie

If you like the story so far, please share links to it with anyone you think might enjoy it too. Thank you!

Pre-release chapters 1-3 of my new novel are now available at Booksie and Wattpad.

The first three chapters of my new novel are now available on Wattpad and Booksie. Please forward to anyone you think may be interested in a novel that deals with some very serious issues relating to for-profit education and higher education generally. I do not pay for advertising of my fiction or poetry, and also refuse to pay for reviews though I am flooded with Spam offers for both constantly. Unlike my non fiction and trade books published by traditional publishers, advertising and promotion...

Free pre-release previews of Chapters 1-2 of my new novel

You can access a pre-release preview of my new novel at either Booksie or Wattpad at the links below. The novel is a fictionalized version of what one might call an alternate universe not very different from the one I inhabited for little more than a year as a newly minted lawyer much like the protagonist with similar enthusiasm, naivete, and the conviction that good intentions and old fashioned hard work could change the world.

You can access the sample chapters at https://www.booksie.com/...

Pre-Release Preview of My New Novel

Classes will begin soon and I am already very busy with preparations for the upcoming semester. Nevertheless, I hope to be able to release my new novel, Hire Lernin’, sometime in the next several months. Meantime, I will be posting a preview of a few chapters over the next week or two on both Wattpad and Booksie to try to gauge readers’ reaction to the work prior to its release as I work on final edits and on creating a cover. If you would like to read the first chapter and my author’s prefatory...

FREE for one day – January 13: What Price to Live the Dream (Short Story – Kindle)

This novella-length short story (9500 words) is one of the 13 short stories in my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk collection [(C) 2021] and also previously appeared in my Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014 by Victor D. López. (It and the previously published short stories in the new collection have been revised and re-edited.)

Of the many crossroads we all face in life, some paths once taken have an indelible impact that no amount of regret can ever undo. W...

FREE for one day (Tuesday, January 5): Eternal Quest

This is one of my longest short stories in my current Echoes of the Mind’s Eye collection and also one of my earliest, originally written in my second year at Queens College. It involves a gifted scholar who devotes his life to the single-minded pursuit of knowledge and turns his back on life, love, family and friends. After years of cloistered self-denial that leave a shadow of his former self, he lapses into a coma at the threshold of obtaining his ultimate goal: the discovery of absolute trut...