Month: August 2025

Chained Birds named finalist for Page Turner Awards’ 2025 Book Adaptation Needed category
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🎥 I’m overjoyed to announce that Chained Birds: A Crimemoir has been named a finalist in the 2025 Page Turner Awards’ Book Adaptation Needed category! 🏆 This recognition is particularly meaningful because the Page Turner Awards celebrate books with cinematic potential—an exciting prospect for any author dreaming of seeing their work adapted for the screen. 🎬 The winners will...
AubioBookReviewer.com calls Chained Birds' prison expose "eye-opening," and Carla Conti's author-narrated performance "captivating."
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Better late than never! Seven months after receiving this one and only editorial review for my author-narrated audiobook of Chained Birds, I am finally posting it in its entirety. I’m extremely pleased to immortalize this review by AudioBookReviewer.com, even though the reviewer wasn’t so fond of the book’s political aspect. That is the reason, I suspect, for the four-star...
Carla Conti will appear at the 2025 Killer Nashville Writers' Conference on three author panels, followed by a book-signing session at the Killer Nashville Book Store
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I am SO jazzed to be appearing on three author panels at this year’s Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference, followed by book signings of Chained Birds after each one in the Killer Nashville Bookstore! Fun fact: all bookstore signings are open to the public 👏 So if you’re a crime fiction, thriller, or true crime fan in Nashville next weekend,...
Watch the Lewisburg rec cage video behind the true crime memoir Chained Birds by Carla Conti (viewer discretion advised)
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As part of my “Author’s Cut” re-boot of Chained Birds, I am making available to the public the video surveillance footage of the 2011 recreational cage fight at Lewisburg Prison that essentially launched this book. It’s grainy and brutal, and thankfully the victim survived and walked away on his own … still, viewer discretion is advised. The participants**, from...