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It’s Day 3 of THE JACKLIGHTER’s pre-launch phase on Kickstarter, and I’m thrilled to report that things are already off to a promising start. 🎉 As of this writing, The Jacklighter is trending #6 out of 206 projects in Kickstarter’s “most popular upcoming nonfiction” publishing category—and I have my fabulous first 11 followers to thank for ...

The Wait Is Over—THE JACKLIGHTER Is Now LIVE on Kickstarter! It’s happening. 🎉 After months of R&D, THE JACKLIGHTER: Murder, Betrayal, and Justice in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains is finally live on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform for creatives. This is a FOLLOW Phase … Backing with Pledges & Rewards Comes Next Month! This project, my second true crime book, is ...

To add to this month’s publishing news for indie authors … Just when I thought February couldn’t get any better for Chained Birds — after celebrating the book’s availability in ALL formats on Bookshop.org — Spotify dropped a game-changing feature called PageMatch that’s giving Amazon’s whispersync a run for its money 👏 Introducing PageMatch: Your Reading-Listening Superpower ...

And Every Purchase Supports Local Bookstores! 💕 ❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day, Book Lovers! In celebration of indie authors and local bookstores, I have a shout-out for Bookstore.org, which announced some big publishing news last week about bringing eBooks to their platform. And I noticed that my award-winning debut, Chained Birds: A Crimemoir, was an immediate beneficiary. Bookshop.org ...

The 2025 Newsletter Archives are Now Open If you’ve been following my journey here on the blog, you know that the “story behind the story” is often just as gripping as what’s on the page. Between my awards, the #1 bestseller badges, and regaining my publishing rights for Chained Birds, 2025 has been a whirlwind. But there’s a whole ...

(This article has been updated with new details and images from its original September 2024 publication.) My true crime memoir, Chained Birds, chronicles the ten-year journey of federal inmate Kevin Sanders as he fought to survive the blood-soaked Special Management Unit at Lewisburg Prison. While the book serves as an exposé of that now-shuttered experimental program, ...

Award-winning author Carla Conti recaps 2025 milestones, from eight true crime book awards to THE JACKLIGHTER Kickstarter teaser.

This is an end-of-year video wrap-up about my book, CHAINED BIRDS, appearing on my new YouTube channel … every video’s theme is about the high cost of truth. For a long time, the only price I thought I’d pay was the ten years I spent writing it. I was wrong. The story—a true-crime memoir centered on ...