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 contains samples of my free verse, blank verse and sonnets spanning four decades. It is the smallest, most insignificant all my books, but nothing I've ever written or am likely to write is closer to my core.  To get your free copy, just click on the following link:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/181370.

For simple book trailers containing my reading of sample poems from this book as well an one new poem, you can click on any of the following links. You can also get previews from my short story collection (ebook and audiobook versions) as well as my general reference book on intellectual property law from Amazon by clicking on the book covers below.

Unsung Heroes: Remedios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6w1Pwe7gI&t=109s

On Shattered Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CV4fGZ2VA8&t=63s

On Fading Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ4EVKhvEYQ

Central Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=757IZDfihJU&t=11s

Sample Sonnets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGahdFd9Fs&t=5s

Extra: Unsung Heroes: Felipe (unpublished): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhHLYK92Js

For information about most of my books, you can visit the following author's web pages:

Official Author's Web Page (with links to all current published works): http://victordlopez.com/index.html

Amazon Author's Page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001KMII74

You can also download a copy of my book of poems free of charge during this promotional period by clicking on the book cover below:

You can also preview my other ebooks and audiobook from the samples below from Amazon:

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 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 altering mistake? Would you give up an unfulfilled life for the chance of virtual happiness in a computer-generated alternate reality? Would you sacrifice everything if you could attain absolute knowledge? If so, could you live with the knowledge you attained? It is said that no person is an island, but what if even the least among us is a god in his/her own right? If an alien visitor offered you a lifetime of health and the gift of telepathy in exchange for a small service, would you be quick to accept? And if consciousness utilizes only a small portion of our brain, what function does the larger, presumably unused portion actually serve? 

These are some of the questions explored in this collection of science fiction and speculative fiction short stories that 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. Most of the short stories published here were written and revised over a period of more than thirty years (1977- 2011) and, with the exception of "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream" have not been previously published. 

The author is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at Hofstra University's Frank G. Zarb School of Business and has previously published seven non-fiction books through traditional publishers. His business law and legal environment textbooks have been used in colleges and universities throughout the United States since 1993. This is his first fiction collection. [Please note: the five stories in this collection and five new stories written from 2011-2014 are included in the author's new short story collection Mindscapes: Ten Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Short Stories available in paperback and eBook versions through CreateSpace, Amazon and Smashwords and which which will also be released as an audiobook in June 2014 through Audible, iTunes and Amazon.

For a current list of my major scholarly publications, textbooks, trade books, short story and poetry collections, you can visit my official Author's page at http://victordlopez.com.

To download a copy of the book free of charge through 3/11/2018 click on this link:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/181335
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