Encounter Series Art Work Getting Rave Reviews...!

New Character Art from "Twisted" Coming Soon.

We have some really great Design Artist working on lots of cool art that has never been published before, even on social media, so this blog post will be the first insight into what's coming online. And while you’re there, check out some of the other art. It's fantastic!

All of our Graphic Design Art for the Encounter Series has been getting terrific reviews. We’re thrilled to hear that fans want to purchase some of the Art. If didn't attend our two book reviews in October 2017 or January 2018, then then this is a good time to check out our Book Excerpts on the Book Links Tab on our site. I'm confident not one but all of the excerpts will peak your interest.

Exciting new artist joining our, already, exceptional Design Team. So, Prepare Yourselves...a new character is coming to the Characters Link!

I like him and I know you’re going to love him.

The Encounter Series Welcome's Puerto Rico!

Hello Encounter Series Fans!

My first, official, BLOG Post from Boston...!

We'll be checking in from Washington D. C. tomorrow. But right now, I am excited to pass on to everyone out there that we are getting huge responses from Puerto Rico on our website and our Carl Alan Publishing FB Page.

A Huge Shout Out to our FANTASTIC Fans in Puerto Rico!

Welcome to The Encounter Series!

Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback

New Your Times Article

By: David Streitfeld

• July 15, 2018

San Francisco — Many booksellers on Amazon strive to sell their wares as cheaply as possible. That, after all, is usually how you make a sale in a competitive marketplace.

Other merchants favor a counterintuitive approach:

Mark the price up to the moon.

“Zowie,” the romance author Deborah Macgillivray wrote on Twitter last month after she discovered copies of her 2009 novel, “One Snowy Knight,” being offered for four figures. One was going for “$2,630.52 & FREE Shipping,” she noted.

Since other copies of the paperback were being sold elsewhere on Amazon for as little as 99 cents, she was perplexed. “How many really sell at that price? Are they just hoping to snooker some poor soul?” Ms. Macgillivray wrote in an email.

She noted that her blog had gotten an explosion in traffic from Russia. “Maybe Russian hackers do this in their spare time, making money on the side,” she said. Amazon is by far the largest marketplace for both new and used books the world has ever seen, and is also one of the most inscrutable. The retailer directly sells some books, while others are sold by third parties. The wild pricing happens with the latter.