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Each week a new favorite review of CHAINED BIRDS will be featured on this blog and across Carla Conti's social media.
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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‘...
I'll take an innie for the next four years
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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...
Midwest Book Review calls Chained Birds riveting that reads like the drama of fiction but is delivered with the one-two punch of reality.
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I’ve been waiting for publication week to post (and boast) about my glowing Midwest Book Review write-up, which just went live on the review site’s Bookwatch page. MBR Senior Reviewer D. Donovan highlights the snowball at the book’s beginning, which was the nexus that led to my involvement in a federal prison case and eventually to my book Chained...
What will it be like to release my debut book Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir during Trumpocalypse 2.0?
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Who were we kidding? A woman of color to be the next U.S. President? No can do. That mountain of American racism and misogyny is just too steep. Pundits and others will debate and blame Trump’s assassination attempt, defecting Latinos, or lies about migrants eating cats that stuck and held. But it really just comes down to racism and...