Despite my best intentions not to create more work for myself, I just launched a YouTube channel to host videos that are too damn large for this WordPress blog.
I didn’t really want to get into making videos (I should be writing 🙄), but I had no choice, because my new videos are just too many megabytes. And you can’t have just one video on YouTube. And since I figured out how to make better ones with voiceovers, I had to keep going … I made a few new videos and overhauled some old ones (see the revised videos for the Lewisburg rec cage stabbing and Aryan Brotherhood hit on Kevin Sanders). So there. I’ve puttered and fussed, and now I have a YouTube channel. Did I mention I should be writing?
In case you’re wondering, my video-making tools include: Canva, ElevenLabs**, and Descript. **I record my real voice with ElevenLabs, which cleans it up, eliminates background noise, and gives it a studio-like finish. And while ElevenLabs is known for its AI-generated voice capabilities, as an author-narrator who just won an audiobook award for my performance, I have no intention of adopting an AI voice … so you can put away your pitchforks 🤨
I present to you my new and improved book trailer for Chained Birds: A Crimemoir … I’ll have more to say about these hand-crafted videos when I bring my next project, The Jacklighter, out from the shadows 🫣
Carla Conti is a former journalist and the award-winning author of Chained Birds: A Crimemoir. Her true crime debut won multiple 2025 national book awards, including 1st Place in True Crime from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Winner in True Crime from the Indie Reader Discovery Awards, Silver in True Crime from the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), Finalist in True Crime from the National Indie Excellence Awards, and a 1st Place Nellie Bly Journalism award from the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Carla is at work on her next true crime book, The Jacklighter, scheduled for release in 2026. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, who supports her true crime habit.
