Carla Conti’s Chained Birds is featured on two new true crime podcasts
April 25, 2025
I had the great pleasure of discussing Chained Birds on two new true crime podcasts, and I’m honored to be among their first guests. My interviews on Santana True Crime and True Crime Talk with Nic Edwards just dropped, and each episode offers something unique in terms of interview style, topics discussed, and book content ...Podcaster Appreciation Day: Thanks to all who’ve hosted me to talk about Chained Birds!
March 31, 2025
As the launch period for Chained Birds winds down, so has the flurry of my podcast appearances. I’ve been on a dozen since the book’s release, and here’s a recap of the latest shows, complete with all listening and viewing links.ย This was such a great bunch of hosts, all armed with terrific questions โ ...UPDATE: Follow this Kindle Scribe hack for better note-taking and easy book edits
March 27, 2025
Post updated March 2025 New fun fact: my original post about a Kindle Scribe hack for taking notes is my number one visited blog post. BY A LOT. Every day, every week, this evergreen article for tech geeks outperforms all my posts across my website, most of which are about my true crime memoir Chained Birds. ...Indie Reader finds Chained Birds a “gripping exploration” of prison system’s underbelly
March 13, 2025
Update May 29, 2025: Chained Birds won the top prize for True Crime in the 2025 Indie Reader Discovery Awards! Original Post I was beyond thrilled this week to see in my inbox another stellar editorial critique for my debut, Chained Birds: A True Crime Memoir. The unexpected surprise was courtesy of Indie Reader, and one of ...Featuring Chained Birds Reviewer of the Week!
February 20, 2025
To say I’m grateful for my growing list of Chained Birds book reviews on Amazon and Goodreads is a huge understatement. I always hoped โ but didn’t know! โ that everyday readers would find the book as compelling of a page-turner as my editorial reviewers have. It’s especially grand to hear from those who listened ...Chained Birds wins the Feathered Quill Debut Author Award
February 2, 2025
To say that book award season has been good to Chained Birds is an understatement! I’m humbled and honored that Chained Birds has been chosen as the 2025 Gold/1st Place winner by the Feathered Quill Book Awards Program for the Debut Author category. At the time of this blog post, the finalists for this award and ...The Artful Periscope reveals why Chained Birds had to be memoir mixed with true crime
February 2, 2025
I had the pleasure of appearing on Larry Davison’s final 2024 episode of his podcast, The Artful Periscope, which just dropped on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other platforms this week. I was the first of Larry’s two interviews for his non-fiction-focused episode and was followed by best-selling author Daniel de Visรฉ, who talked about his latest ...Can I get a Lumon innie for the next four years?
January 25, 2025
We are in the End Times. I am aware. Just because I don’t write, tweet, or engage socially about it doesn’t mean I don’t know or care. I’m just trying to preserve my mental health. To that end, I have submitted my request toย Lumon Industries to be severed like Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan, the courageous ...
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.