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Enter Amazon Giveaway #2 for June: "The Day the Dolphins Vanished"

Enter for a chance to win a copy of my SF short story "The Day the Dolphins Vanished" in my Amazon Giveaway promotion (Ends June 22). Click on the book cover below or on this link to enter: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/9fb738aa96e4992f
This is a short story (2825 words) reprinted from Book of Dreams Second Edition: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2012 by Victor D. López and Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories (C) 2014...

Amazon Giveaway - Enter for a chance to win a copy of my Copyright Law: A Practical Guide for your Kindle

This book is based on the material that first appeared in my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets with some updates and expansion. Like my earlier work, it is meant to serve as a resource that provides information in an easy to understand and absorb manner. Unlike my earlier work that offers a survey of intellectual property law, this one focuses exclusively on copyright and will be priced at $3.99 for the Kindle and other...

Memorial Day

On Memorial Day and every day, let us remember the brave men and women who laid down their lives in both just wars and in unwise ones to preserve the freedoms we enjoy paid for with their blood in lonely places far from home and in battlefields too close to home. May we never forget their sacrifice. May we always honor their memory. May they rest in peace. 

Whatever our differences and despite the current unpleasant polarization that divides us, I pray we can be of one mind on the value o...

LibraryThing giveaway: 10 copies of the eBook version of my Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories collection

I am giving away 10 copies of the eBook version of my Minsdacapes short story collection through LibraryThing. You can enter the giveaway at the following link  (LibraryThing) by scrolling down until you find my book in the current giveaway page. This giveaway ends May 31. Good luck!

My intellectual property books now available to libraries internationally

As of today, my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets and Copyright Law: A Practical Guide are both available to libraries for the first time in eBook formats. The paperback versions of both books are also available for library adoption. Both books are intended as practical guides for the general public and are brief yet comprehensive in their coverage of their respective subject matter. You can preview these and most of my current b...

Illegal Immigration: The Need for a Discussion Beyond Walls and Sanctuary Cities

Illegal immigration is a topic that is much discussed but about which most people--and politicians--know very little, and what passes for "information" on the subject is often far from the truth. For example, illegal immigrants (undocumented workers for those on the left of the political spectrum) do not just take jobs Americans don't want; a significant number are employed in high paying blue and white collar professions, including law, academia and medicine. Nor is the often touted "fact" t...

Smashwords Interview Excerpt

I just came across a" Smashwords Interview" from a few years ago as I answered a new question about my latest book.  Here is an excerpt. You can access the full text at the following link: Smashwords Interview.

Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?Yes. Alas, it is lost along with much of my early work done on typewriters with no backups. I will rewrite it some day as it still speaks to me and, like many of my later stories, it delved into the interplay between the conscious and...

Save 25 percent on my new Copyright Law book until April 15

Just published: Copyright Law: A Practical Guide (25% off until April 15)
This book is based on the material that first appeared in my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets with some updates and expansion. Like my earlier work, it is meant to serve as a resource that provides information in an easy to understand and absorb manner. Unlike my earlier work that offers a survey of intellectual property law, this one focuses excl...

Just published: Copyright Law: A Practical Guide

This book is based on the material that first appeared in my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets with some updates and expansion. Like my earlier work, it is meant to serve as a resource that provides information in an easy to understand and absorb manner. Unlike my earlier work that offers a survey of intellectual property law, this one focuses exclusively on copyright and will be priced at $3.99. It is available today f...

Free through April 15 -- two speculative fiction short stories from my Mindscapes collection

From now until April 15, 2018 you can download a copy of the two shortest stories from my Mindscapes collection only at Smashwords by clicking here or on the book cover page below with automatically generated coupon code. You can also send a copy to a friend free of charge by selecting the option "give as a gift" from the book's Smashwords page, but you will need to enter the coupon code manually to gift the story free of charge.
If you do not already have a Smashwords account,...