Carmela A. Martino

Author. Speaker. Poet. Teacher.

Contact/Press Kit

You can email me through the link in the left sidebar or scroll down and use the form at the bottom of this column.

Press Kit

For my Speaker's Bio, see the Bio/About Me page. For a list of some of the conferences where I've presented, see the left sidebar of the Speaking page. Contact me via the email link in the sidebar to request an author headshot or book covers in jpg format.

See the left sidebar to download the following pdf documents:

sample interview questions regarding both my novels
a press release regarding Playing by Heart winning the Catholic Arts and Letters Award (CALA).

See the left sidebar for links to various online interviews and the right sidebar for links TV/radio interviews. For links to reviews of Playing by Heart, see this page.

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TV Interviews

Author A.J. Cattapan interviewed me about my YA historical, Playing by Heart, for the Book.Ed program on Shalom World TV. The program includes a teen fan of Playing by Heart sharing her thoughts on the novel. You can watch the Book.Ed episode here.
EWTN Bookmark host Doug Keck interviewed me at the 2019 Catholic Marketing Nework convention after Playing by Heart won the 2018 Catholic Arts and Letters Award (CALA) for Children's/Young Adult fiction. You can watch the Bookmark interview here.

Radio/Podcast Interviews

Fellow author Amy Cattapan and I were interviewed for the Catholic Chicago radio program hosted by Fr. Greg Sakowicz, Rector of Holy Name Cathedral and Wayne Magdziarz, Senior Vice President at Loyola University Chicago on March 27, 2017. We discussed our books and the CatholicTeenBooks website for the first 30 minutes of the one-hour program. You can listen to the recorded interview here, beginning at about the 2:15 point.
I was interviewed for the Catholic Chicago radio program again, this time by Graziano Marcheschi, on July 26, 2018. We discussed both Rosa, Sola and Playing by Heart. You can listen to the recorded interview here.
I was interviewed by Antony Kolenc for The Shepherd's Pie podcast on Oct. 10, 2021. The topic was "Culture and Youth," and we discussed ways to help young people appreciate their own heritage and respect the culture of others.
I enjoyed a wide-ranging podcast discussion with Jayne de Sales on the July 26, 2022 episode of Tales with de Sales. Our topics included Jane Austen, the harpsichord, computer coding, care of the poor, and my novel Playing by Heart.

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