🥳📚👏 I love that my Reviewer of the Week, Kathleen Riggs, says #ChainedBirds is "remarkable" and "gripping" and "reads like a thriller‼️" She calls it an "immensely powerful book on gangs and the American prison system ..." Many thanks, KR, and to all who've rated & reviewed

I'm so honored to receive a #TrueCrime SILVER MEDAL! Thank you, judges, and congrats to all category winners 🏅👏🥳 carlajeanconti.com/chained-birds-…

🏆🎉Holy guacamole! IndieReader just named #ChainedBirds its 2025 top #TRUECRIME BOOK AWARD WINNER, and I'm over the 🌚 ‼️ (Also impressed I kept this secret for more than a week 😱) Thank you, judges, for giving my book its 3rd #TrueCrimeBookAward this month. 🫶 Congrats to all

Alex DeMille will be a featured guest for the 100th episode of the podcast Artful Periscope coming in June with the third book featuring Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor.Alex DeMille Podcast Overlord Larry Davidson ITW Organization #BookPodcasts #AuthorInterviews #Repost

🎊🏆🏆🏆🎊 Love my Indie Book Awards❣️ I feel like a triple 👑 winner this month thanks to 3 #TRUECRIME #BOOKAWARDS given to #ChainedBirds from IndieReader , Indie Book Awards & Independent Publisher Book Awards 🫶 Many ecstatic thanks to all judges & program editors for these esteemed honors, and

Suicides in NC prisons linked to solitary confinement (via The Charlotte Observer) pulse.ly/59uzct7a0w

🥳 🏆 📚 In honor of IndieReader naming #ChainedBirds their 2025 #TRUECRIME BOOK AWARD WINNER this week, I'm posting an excerpt from IRDA's "verdict blurb." The contest judge called my book "raw and unflinching," and said, "this impactful read lingers long after the final

🎊🏆🏆🏆🎊 Love my Indie Book Awards❣️ I feel like a triple 👑 winner this month thanks to 3 #TRUECRIME #BOOKAWARDS given to #ChainedBirds from IndieReader , Indie Book Awards & Independent Publisher Book Awards 🫶 Many ecstatic thanks to all judges & program editors for these esteemed honors, and

🥳📚👏 So proud to have this 5-⭐️ #ChainedBirds review by GoodReads bookworm Rose! She said I keep readers INVESTED with the story's engaging characters, and that at times the legal battles seem "senseless," making it hard to watch them unfold. (I know 🥺) Many thanks, Rose, and

This was such a fun interview, Christina - thanks so much for your interest and support!

‼️Attention fellow creatives! Just a couple of weeks left to enter the #PageTurnerAwards ‼️ I've entered my #TrueCrime memoir #ChainedBirds and can't wait to see the list of finalists 🤞🥳

📚 ✍️ 🙌 Shoutout to my fellow author-blogger Christina Boyd for interviewing me about #ChainedBirds, writing #TrueCrime and much more, & featuring our bookish Q-A on her blog this week! Thank you, Christina! 🥳 🙏 🤩 bit.ly/4e0EKVA

🥳📚 My glowing #MidwestBookReview said the snowball that launched the events exposed in #ChainedBirds was an EXPLODING SUPERNOVA 🪐💥‼️ and that the book reads like fiction but is "delivered with the one-two punch of reality." Let me know if you agree—I'd love to feature you as

I have been tweeting this every day. Will you join me? Over 5700 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women #MMIW #MMIWG2S. #MMIP.

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📚✍️ 🙌 Many thanks to IndieReader for this new author interview about #ChainedBirds, which they named as their 2025 #TRUECRIME BOOK AWARD WINNER 🥳🏆… I'm so honored for the spotlight 🫶 and congratulate all my fellow category winners and those taking the top prizes in

🥳📚🏆Thank you, thank you NIEA for naming #ChainedBirds a #TrueCrime finalist in this year's book awards! I'm honored to share the spotlight with my fellow crime writers, and congratulate the winner and other finalists on this career achievement‼️🙌🎉 #CarlaConti

🥳📚👏 Shout out to my Reviewer of the Week, book blogger and Netgalley reviewer Kayleigh Annaleise aka 𝔨𝔞𝔶𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔤𝔥 𝔞𝔫𝔫𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔦𝔰𝔢, who called #ChainedBirds "riveting and entertaining!" She said my journalism background influenced the flow, and that anyone interested in #TrueCrime should get

📣🎉Shout out to NIEA for giving #ChainedBirds its 4th #TrueCrime book award this spring! 🏆🏆🏆🏆 I'm so honored to be a category finalist and share the spotlight with my fellow crime-writing prize winners! Congrats to all #NIEA2025 winners and finalists! 🙌🥳