Year: 2025

Each week a new favorite review of CHAINED BIRDS will be featured on this blog and across Carla Conti's social media.
1 min read
To say I’m grateful for my growing list of Chained Birds book reviews on Amazon and Goodreads is a huge understatement. I always hoped β€” but didn’t know! β€” that everyday readers would find the book as compelling of a page-turner as my editorial reviewers have. It’s especially grand to hear from those who listened to the Chained Birds‘...
Chained Birds wins the Gold/1st Place award in the 2025 Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for the Debut Author category
2 min read
To say that book award season has been good to Chained Birds is an understatement! I’m humbled and honored that Chained Birds has been chosen as the 2025 Gold/1st Place winner by the Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for the Debut Author category. At the time of this blog post, the finalists for this award and their other award...
I'll take an innie for the next four years
4 min read
We are in the End Times. I am aware. Just because I don’t write, tweet, or engage socially about it doesn’t mean I don’t know or care. I’m just trying to preserve my mental health. To that end, I have submitted my request toΒ Lumon Industries to be severed like Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan, the courageous data mining employees...
Chained Birds by Carla Conti is a 2024 Nellie Bly Book Award finalist for journalistic non-fiction
5 min read
I am ecstatic to report that Chained Birds has been short-listed for CIBA’s 2024 Nellie Bly Book Awards! So naturally, I’ve done a deep dive into all things Nellie Bly … get ready for a primer. 😁 Sponsored by the Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs), this award recognizes emerging new talent and outstanding works in the...