The Jacklighter & Chained Birds | Carla Conti

Pre-orders for The Jacklighter, set for release in Fall 2026, are coming soon to Amazon. Find Chained Birds at these retailers, including Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Spotify.

Pre-orders for The Jacklighter are coming to Amazon

THE JACKLIGHTER: Murder, Betrayal, and Justice in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains is set for release in the Fall of 2026. Pre-orders will go live on Amazon later this year. ✨

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Read the first 2 chapters of The Jacklighter by subscribing to Carla Conti’s free newsletter CRIMEMOIR CONFIDENTIAL. The welcome email contains a link for the free download.

How to Buy Chained Birds: A Crimemoir

Thanks to universal book links, there’s one easy place to locate all formats and retailers for Chained Birds: Books2read.com/chainedbirds 👏👏👏

Or, broken down by format …

Chained Birds Hardcover and Print Copies

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Find the Chained Birds Hardcover and Paperback editions at these retailers.

Chained Birds eBook

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Find the Chained Birds eBook at these online retailers

Chained Birds Author-Narrated Audiobook (an AudioBookReviewer.com 2025 Best Crimemoir Winner!)

Find the Chained Birds audiobook here:

Find the Chained Birds author-narrated audiobook at these retailers

Other Things to Know …

I launched CRIMEMOIR STORE to distribute my audiobooks and eBooks

You can buy Carla Conti's eBooks and audiobooks with an instant download at her Crimemoir StoreFun fact: I was so impatient waiting for my initial audiobook distributor to release Chained Birds, that I created a storefront on Shopify to sell the audiobook myself. It’s called CRIMEMOIR STORE, where the Chained Birds audiobook and eBook are available at the same marketplace prices you’ll find elsewhere. (A great place to buy it if you want to support this author directly 😁)

It’s a privilege for an author to have their own storefront, and now I have a place to sell future audiobooks and eBooks. The mechanics work with Shopify’s front end, with its stellar sales interface, and Bookfunnel’s back end, where they send patrons an immediate download link and tech support if needed. I have found the Bookfunnel audiobook app on par with Audible’s, for what that’s worth.

The Chained Birds eBook is the only version with color images

The only way to see the new “Author’s Cut” 20+ photos, sketches, and prison artwork in COLOR is by reading Chained Birds on a color Kindle or Kobo reader, or via a Kindle or Kobo app on a tablet, iPad, etc. Price-wise, you won’t do better than the eBook at $9.99, so this is the reading version I recommend for both reasons.

Only the “Author’s Cut” eBook edition of Chained Birds shows the new 20+ images in color. The eBook color images can be seen on a Kindle Colorsoft eReader and Kindle Fire tablets, or on any iPad, tablet, or smartphone via a Kindle app.

All print copies show the images in black and white

All images only appear in black and white in Paperback and Hardcover formats.

All new editions of Chained Birds offer a sneak peek at my next true crime book, The Jacklighter

An extra bonus, in the new edition of Chained Birds, is a sneak peek at Carla Conti's next true crime book The Jacklighter.

Easy peasy ordering of Carla Conti's Chained Birds on Amazon at this link
Easy peasy ordering of Carla Conti's Chained Birds at these and other retailers
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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