Casi McLean's Blog, page 50

Jana Richards

ABA feature, Jana Richards, shares 5 secrets to insure a great relationship or marriage to make 2016 the best year ever.

Katie O’Sullivan

When I finished my very first manuscript, I had no clue about the publishing business. I figured if I write it, someone will publish it. The end. Hey, stop laughing! So I was young and (incredibly) naive.

Atlanta Author Sets Novel Beneath Lake Lanier

The Gwinnett Daily Post: Atlanta-based author Casi McLean was fascinated with the towns buried underwater when the man-made Lake Lanier was created. She decided that the fictional town of Sidney, decades in the past, would be the setting for her debut novel, which was released in August.

K.K. Weil ~ Feature author

Wouldn’t it be great if, at the end of the day, we’d reflect on all the things we accomplished, instead of worrying about what we didn’t get to today?

Alicia Dean ~ Featured Author

Happily ever afters aren't all the same. Some people jump into bad relationships simply because they don’t want to be alone. I wish they could understand that being alone is better than being in a bad situation.

Mysteries & Death at Lake Lanier ~ part 3

Delia Parker Young, and her friend, Susie Roberts, headed off to Three Gables in Dawsonville in Susie’s 1954 Ford for a night out. They would never return. The only clue left at the scene was a set of skid marks across the road which seemed to suggest that the car had skidded off of Lanier Bridge on Dawsonville Highway and into the lake below, yet no vehicle could be found.

Mysteries & Death at Lake Lake part 3

Delia Parker Young, and her friend, Susie Roberts, headed off to Three Gables in Dawsonville in Susie’s 1954 Ford for a night out. They would never return. The only clue left at the scene was a set of skid marks across the road which seemed to suggest that the car had skidded off of Lanier Bridge on Dawsonville Highway and into the lake below, yet no vehicle could be found.

Mysteries & Death at Cursed Lake Lanier part 2

This rather eerie history and the spooky presence of whole underwater ghost towns, derelict ghost ships, and desecrated cemeteries, are far from the only strange things about Lake Lanier, and indeed it has accrued a rather sinister reputation for drawing death and suffering to itself.

Mysteries & Death at Georgia’s Cursed Lake

Join me between now and Christmas for an amazing treat. Whether you liked BENEATH THE LAKE, or have yet to read my book, experiencing the eerie lore that haunts Atlanta's famous Lake Lanier will chill you, thrill you and suck you into the whirlpool of intrigue that captured my heart and inspired my story. The next few days I'll be posting a wonderful article published on December 4, 2015 by Brent Swancer––well after the August 5th publishing of my book––a man I do not know and with whom I have no ties. Don't miss this incredible depiction of the ghost town time forgot!

Jeannie Hall ~ Feature Author

I write from what I only half-jokingly call the Darkside. Ever since I was a teenager, I was captivated by stories with emotional intensity. I didn’t want to simply read a book, I wanted to be absorbed into it. I wanted to laugh, to cry, to shiver. I wanted to not be able to look away from the page. For me, those moments encapsulate everything that matters about reading and writing. The magic of books is their ability to carry us away.