Posts on Chained Birds Book

  • Reclaiming My Work: What Taylor Swift Taught Me About Fighting for Creative Rights

    September 27, 2025Reclaiming My Work: What Taylor Swift Taught Me About Fighting for Creative Rights
    This summer has been a whirlwind for me. After reclaiming the rights to my award-winning bookย Chained Birds, I took the leap into indie publishing. Itโ€™s been a liberating experienceโ€”one thatโ€™s pushed me to explore new platforms and opportunities, like making my audiobook available on Spotify. Yes,ย Chained Birdsย is now streaming on the same platform whereย Taylor Swiftโ€™sย chart-topping ...
  • Countdown to the Oct. 4th Collingswood, NJ Book Festival!

    September 20, 2025Countdown to the Oct. 4th Collingswood, NJ Book Festival!
    ๐Ÿ“š October is right around the corner, and so is one of my favorite book festival events! Iโ€™m thrilled to announce that on Saturday, October 4, 2025, Iโ€™ll be joining the Delaware Valley Chapter of Sisters in Crime at the 23rd Annual Collingswood Book Festival in downtown Collingswood, NJ. This vibrant, six-block celebration of books, authors, ...
  • Page Turner Awards: Chained Birds Has Movie Potential!

    August 26, 2025Page Turner Awards: Chained Birds Has Movie Potential!
    ๐ŸŽฅ Iโ€™m overjoyed to announce that Chained Birds: A Crimemoir has been named a finalist in the 2025 Page Turner Awardsโ€™ Book Adaptation Needed category! ๐Ÿ† This recognition is particularly meaningful because the Page Turner Awards celebrate books with cinematic potentialโ€”an exciting prospect for any author dreaming of seeing their work adapted for the screen. ...
  • AudioBookReviewer on Chained Birds: an “Eye-Opening” Exposรฉ and “Captivating” Author Narration

    August 21, 2025AudioBookReviewer on Chained Birds: an "Eye-Opening" Exposรฉ and "Captivating" Author Narration
    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, ...
  • Killer Nashville Writers’ Conference, Here I Come!

    August 16, 2025Killer Nashville Writers' Conference, Here I Come!
    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 ๐Ÿ‘ So if you’re a crime fiction, thriller, or true crime fan in ...
  • Announcing: An “Author’s Cut” Chained Birds Re-launch With 20+ New Images

    August 9, 2025Announcing: An "Author's Cut" Chained Birds Re-launch With 20+ New Images
    There’s a reason I’ve been missing in action here, on social media, and on the pickleball court this summer … I’ve been busy getting my Chained Birds rights reverted from my former publisher to re-launch it under my own imprint. That’s right, I’ve had a friendly divorce from my traditional publisher, and have now gone “indie” ...
  • VIDEO: The Lewisburg Prison Rec Cage Fight Behind Chained Birds (Viewer Discretion Advised)

    August 8, 2025VIDEO: The Lewisburg Prison Rec Cage Fight Behind Chained Birds (Viewer Discretion Advised)
    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 ...
  • VIDEO: An Aryan Brotherhood Prison “Hit” From Chained Birds (Viewer Discretion Advised)

    August 8, 2025VIDEO: An Aryan Brotherhood Prison "Hit" From Chained Birds (Viewer Discretion Advised)
    This is the second of two prison stabbing videos I’ve made available to the public as part of my re-launch of Chained Birds: A Crimemoir. Like the first one, it’s grainy and brutal, and the victimโ€”federal inmate Kevin Sandersโ€”survives … but just barely. The 2013 footage from USP Florence in Colorado begins with an Aryan ...
Carla Conti - True Crime Journalist, Storyteller, Prison Reform Advocate

Carla Conti is a journalist and the award-winning author of Chained Birds: A Crimemoir. Her next true crime book, The Jacklighter, is set for release in 2026. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, who supports her true crime habit.

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