Chained Birds to be Published by WildBlue Press in Fall 2024
I’m thrilled to announce my debut true crime memoir, Chained Birds, has found a home with WildBlue Press and will be published this fall! I’ve known about this since the end of last year — talk about a secret that’s hard to keep! I inked my deal just before Christmas following two weeks of dialogue with ...Book Chained Birds: A Crimemoir to expose prison abuse, gang violence, criminal justice failures
I never knew what a mood board was until I decided to enter a couple of X (formerly Twitter) book pitch contests this fall. Because I love tinkering with graphics, I dove into creating my first-ever mood board for November’s #MoodPitch contest — a contest that ended up getting canceled. The volunteer contest organizers decided ...Murdered Boston mobster Whitey Bulger to be featured in Chained Birds: A Crimemoir
In 2014, inmate Kevin Sanders stepped off a ConAir flight from Pennsylvania to a tarmac in Orlando, where he met an “old timer” similarly dressed in an orange jumpsuit and belly chain. The ornery felon with a sharp tongue and Southie Boston accent turned out to be the notorious Boston mobster Whitey Bulger. Kevin and ...Coming in 2024: Chained Birds: A Crimemoir, by Carla Conti
Welcome to my digital home! This space is devoted to tidbits about my book in progress, Chained Birds: A Crimemoir, my publishing safari, anything that catches my fancy in the true crime world, and posts about prison reform and the criminal justice system — a central theme to Chain Birds’ story. So what’s Crimemoir? So glad ...