Author Carla Conti
@carlaconti.bsky.social
Carla is the award-winning author of CHAINED BIRDS, a story of a wrongful conviction, inmate abuse, & prison gang hit orders. Her next true crime book, THE JACKLIGHTER, is set for release in late 2026. 🔗 https://bit.ly/m/carlajeanconti
“A powerful and compulsive true crime epic that demands a screen adaptation.” 🎥 That's BestThrillers on THE JACKLIGHTER, my new true crime book on a 1976 Pennsylvania murder, out Oct. 27. It posts on their site during launch week. But it's on my blog now carlajeanconti.com/the-jackligh... #BookSky
THE JACKLIGHTER hit #1 New Release in Forensic Science Law! 📚⚡️ Paperback pre-orders are moving so fast that Amazon is temporarily out of stock! 🤷🏻♀️ Skip the wait—pre-order via @barnesandnoble.com or call the Jenkintown, PA or Vestal, NY stores to reserve for my signings! #TrueCrime #BookSky
🔦 A hunting trip. A shotgun blast ruled an accident — until a body was exhumed 20 years later. THE JACKLIGHTER is out Oct. 27! Giving away 100 Kindle copies on Goodreads to celebrate launch week + Halloween 🎃 — enter by Oct. 31: bit.ly/4e3N87K #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
Excited to join Pennwriters at the Easton Book Festival! 📚 Catch our panel "Defending Authentic Women in Our Books" on Sun, Oct 18 (2:30–4 PM) at Sigal Museum, Easton, PA w/ Christina VandePol, Geraldine Donaher, Angel Ackerman & Suzanne Mattaboni! @christinavandepol.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚
🔦 A hunting trip. A shotgun blast ruled an accident — until a body was exhumed 20 years later. THE JACKLIGHTER is out Oct. 27! Giving away 100 Kindle copies on Goodreads to celebrate launch week + Halloween 🎃 — enter by Oct. 31: bit.ly/4e3N87K #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
📣 📚 FIRST CHANCE TO BUY! 🎉 THE JACKLIGHTER officially publishes Oct 27, but signed copies will be at Barnes & Noble Jenkintown on Sat, Oct 24, 1–3 PM (905 Old York Rd). A head start on a very dark PA story. #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity #TheJacklighter
Excited to join Pennwriters at the Easton Book Festival! 📚 Catch our panel "Defending Authentic Women in Our Books" on Sun, Oct 18 (2:30–4 PM) at Sigal Museum, Easton, PA w/ Christina VandePol, Geraldine Donaher, Angel Ackerman & Suzanne Mattaboni! @christinavandepol.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚
🐝 THE JACKLIGHTER is getting buzzy on Edelweiss, where librarians & booksellers preview new books. Check out what they're saying 👇 Thank you to everyone who's taken the time to read early! 🙏 Preorder for Oct. 27 delivery → bit.ly/order-jackli... #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Jacklighter
🔦 A hunting trip. A shotgun blast ruled an accident — until a body was exhumed 20 years later. THE JACKLIGHTER is out Oct. 27! Giving away 100 Kindle copies on Goodreads to celebrate launch week + Halloween 🎃 — enter by Oct. 31: bit.ly/4e3N87K #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
✨ 📚 @IndieReader calls THE JACKLIGHTER "thorough, well-written, and devastating." Thirty years in the making — this is exactly the response I was hoping for. 🙏 Preorder now for Oct. 27 delivery → bit.ly/order-jackli... #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #BookSky 📚💙 #BookReview
Heading to the 24th Annual Collingswood Book Festival TODAY, Sat. Oct 3! 📚✨Stop by our booth (10 AM - 4 PM) to talk true crime & grab a pre-release copy of The Jacklighter alongside authors @jmccrone.bsky.social Joanne McLaughlin, and Michael Bradley! #BookSky 📚💙 @sincworldwide.bsky.social
Heading to the 24th Annual Collingswood Book Festival tomorrow Sat. Oct 3! 📚✨Stop by our booth (10 AM - 4 PM) to talk true crime & grab a pre-release copy of The Jacklighter alongside authors @jmccrone.bsky.social Joanne McLaughlin, and Michael Bradley! #BookSky 📚💙 @sincworldwide.bsky.social
🔦 A hunting trip. A shotgun blast ruled an accident — until a body was exhumed 20 years later. THE JACKLIGHTER is out Oct. 27! Giving away 100 Kindle copies on Goodreads to celebrate launch week + Halloween 🎃 — enter by Oct. 31: bit.ly/4e3N87K #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
Heading to the 24th Annual Collingswood Book Festival on Saturday, Oct 3! 📚✨Stop by our booth (10 AM - 4 PM) to talk true crime & grab a pre-release copy of The Jacklighter alongside authors @jmccrone.bsky.social Joanne McLaughlin, and Michael Bradley! #BookSky 📚💙 @sincworldwide.bsky.social
Excited to join Pennwriters at the Easton Book Festival! 📚 Catch our panel "Defending Authentic Women in Our Books" on Sun, Oct 18 (2:30–4 PM) at Sigal Museum, Easton, PA w/ Christina VandePol, Geraldine Donaher, Angel Ackerman & Suzanne Mattaboni! @christinavandepol.bsky.social #booksky 💙📚
🔦 PREORDERS ARE LIVE for THE JACKLIGHTER! Ebook, hardcover & paperback—arriving October 27, 2026. Already #1 New Release in Forensic Science on Amazon 🎉 Preorder: www.amazon.com/Jacklighter-... #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
Heading to the 24th Annual Collingswood Book Festival on Saturday, Oct 3! 📚✨Stop by our booth (10 AM - 4 PM) to talk true crime & grab a pre-release copy of The Jacklighter alongside authors @jmccrone.bsky.social Joanne McLaughlin, and Michael Bradley! #BookSky 📚💙 @sincworldwide.bsky.social
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to @Independent Book Review for giving #ChainedBirds one of its first honors! Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
📣 Update: THE JACKLIGHTER now has FIVE stops on the calendar! Added the Wissahickon Valley Public Library in Ambler — Wed, Nov 4 🧡 Full lineup: Oct 29 @thebookshoponmain, Oct 31 @bnvestal, Nov 1 @thrillerdelphia, Nov 4 @wvplibrary, Nov 28 @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social. #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️
So grateful my Around Ambler's feature on THE JACKLIGHTER is still hitting inboxes 2 days later! Suzanne McNaughton covered the book & the Dillon-Scher case. bit.ly/4giIXGF Thank you, Around Ambler, for covering local stories—and local authors! 📖 ✨ #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #WritingCommunity
Ambler author releasing true crime novel 50 years after infamous murder - Around Ambler
Local News, Events and Happenings in Ambler, Blue Bell, Fort Washington and Lower Gwynedd PA
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📣 It's official! THE JACKLIGHTER launches Oct 27! Around Ambler covered the book + case. 4 signings are booked: Oct 29 @thebookshoponmain | Oct 31 @bnvestal | Nov 1 @thrillerdelphia | Nov 28 @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social See you there! carlajeanconti.com/the-jackligh... #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime
THE JACKLIGHTER Launches October 27—And Four Signings Are on the Calendar 🎃
THE JACKLIGHTER, Carla Conti's new true crime book on the Scher-Dillon case, launches Oct. 27, 2026. Four signing events now on the calendar. 🎃
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✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
Hey, ya'll, it's been a minute–wanted to share my birthday present from one of my favorite people in the world 💕 It's highly appropriate since I'm putting the finishing touches on THE JACKLIGHTER for its near-Halloween release 🎃 Launch date news w/ bookstore signing events coming soon!
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
✨📖 It’s Wednesday! Huge thanks to this week’s reviewer for the kind words on #ChainedBirds. Your support means the world to an indie author like me! ✍️✨ Read it here: amzn.to/3YnBNY4 #WritingCommunity #BookSky 📚💙 #TrueCrime 📚⚡️ #Bookstagram #Bookthreads #BookReview #CarlaConti
