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Free book of poetry through 3/20/2018

Free with coupon code through 3/20/2018 "Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems"My book of poems is FREE with coupon code KV32D, through March 20, 2018 in any eBook format, but ONLY at Smashwords. (I cannot create coupon codes for discounted or free books at the other retailers where my books are sold.) Make sure to download the actual full book rather than just the book preview sample which is also always available at the book's Smashwords page for this and all of my eBooks.
The book conta...

Book of Dreams: Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories 1st edition free through 3/11/2018

For five days only (march 7-11 2018) you can download a copy of my Book of Dreams (first edition) free of charge in any of the leading eBook formats only from Smashwords with coupon code TG56G at checkout (entered automatically from the link below). Extended free previews are also available at any time from the same link for this and all of my books distributed through Smashwords.

From the Smashwords book page:
This collection of five science fiction and speculative fiction short stor...

Free with coupon code through 2/28/2018 "Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems"

My book of poems is FREE with coupon code KV32D, only through February 28, 2018 in any eBook format, but ONLY at Smashwords. (I cannot create coupon codes for discounted or free books at the other retailers where my books are sold.) Make sure to download the actual full book rather than just the book samples which is also always available at the book's Smashwords page.
The book contains samples of my free verse, blank verse and sonnets spanning four decades. It is the smallest, most insig...

Amazon Giveaway #1 for February -- "End of Days" plus extended text preview

Amazon Giveaway #1 for February -- "End of Days" SF short storyPlease click on the following link to enter an Amazon Giveaway for a chance to win one of the ten SF short stories in my Mindscapes collection: "End of Days". The giveaway ends 3/1/2018 or when the prize is claimed in this lucky number giveaway. Click on the following link to enter: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/2f906707d945983a
I am also reprinting an excerpt from this short story below where you will also find links to the A...

Amazon January Giveaway #3 -- "End of Days" SF short story

Please click on the following link to enter an Amazon Giveaway for a chance to win one of the ten SF short stories in my Mindscapes collection: "End of Days". The giveaway ends 2/10/2018 or when the prize is claimed in this lucky number giveaway. Click on the following link to enter: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/712c4e9e74bedd40 


I am reprinting an excerpt from this short story below where you will also find links to the Amazon version of the book and also the Mindscapes collection....

Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets on sale this week only

Save up to 50 percent from the regular selling price on the Kindle edition of my general reference book on intellectual property for 5 days only (January 19-23) on an Amazon Countdown deal. The book is on sale for $4.99 on January 19-20 and the price incrementally increases back to its regular sale price of $9.99 thereafter over the remainder of the sale period. This is the first time the book has been discounted and it is a one-time deal as I am removing the book from Amazon-exclusive distri...

Intelelctual property law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets on sale this week only

Save up to 50 percent from the regular selling price on the Kindle edition of my general reference book on intellectual property for 5 days only (January 19-23) on an Amazon Countdown deal. The book is on sale for $4.99 on January 19-20 and the price incrementally increases back to its regular sale price of $9.99 thereafter over the remainder of the sale period. This is the first time the book has been discounted and it is a one-time deal as I am removing the book from Amazon-exclusive distri...

Free book of poems "Of Pain and Ecstasy: Collected Poems" through 1/23/2018

My book of poems is FREE with coupon code KV32D, but ONLY through January 23, 2018, in any eBook format, and ONLY at Smashwords. (I cannot create coupon codes for discounted or free books at the other retailers where my books are sold.) Make sure to download the actual full book rather than just the book samples also available at this page.

The book contains samples of my free verse, blank verse and sonnets spanning four decades. It is the smallest, most insignificant all my books, but nothing...

Héroes Desconocidos VI: Lita (Manuela)

Héroes Desconocidos VI: Lita (Manuela)(C) 2018 Victor D. López 
Naciste cinco años antes del comienzo de la guerra civil,Y viviste en una casita de dos pisos en la Calle de Abajo de Fontan,Frente al mar que les regalo su riqueza y belleza,Y les robo a tu hermano mayor y el más noble, Juan, a los 19 años.
De chiquita eras muy llorona. Los vecinos te hacían rabiar con solo decirte,“Chora, Litina, chora” lo cual producía un largo llanto al instante.A los siete u ocho años quedaste ciega por u...

Free with coupon code RZ76G through January 20, 2018 -- Book of Dreams (first edition) Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories plus links to previews of my fiction, poetry and intellectual property books

This collection of five science fiction and speculative fiction short stories probes the interrelationship between dreams and reality, the nature of reality itself, and the dangers attendant to the single-minded pursuit of wish fulfillment with its attendant unexpected and unwanted consequences. NOTE: The author's Mindscapes collection includes all of the stories in this book and five new ones.

What price would you pay to revisit a crossroad in your life when you had made a terrible, life-alte...