While diving, Patrick also meets beautiful Park Ranger Trudy Price who soon becomes his fiancée. He encounters green skinned mutant people with gills who have been living there for more than fifty years, since the lake was created. Patrick and Trudy are once again coping with good and evil among a different kind of bottom dweller.Īfter suffering a stroke, forty-eight year old, karate black belt Patrick Dylan is scuba diving in Lake Lanier for exercise and therapy. They are thrust into the investigation and discover another subterranean culture: The Mole People of underground Manhattan, denizens of the abandoned subway and train tunnels. When they are visiting the Cloisters Museum, a curator is found murdered.

Thinking that they have left subterranean life in the deep waters of the lake, Patrick and Trudy get married and head to New York City for their honeymoon. Patrick battles with the bad and is surprised by the good. Just as with all people, there are good and bad among the bottom dwellers of Lake Lanier. While diving, Patrick also meets beautiful Park Ranger Trudy Price who soon becomes his fiancee. 5 minutes 5 questions with a shane etter black rose writing bottom dwellers interview joey pinkney joeypinkney.After suffering a stroke, forty-eight year old, karate black belt Patrick Dylan is scuba diving in Lake Lanier for exercise and therapy. “I was the least creative man in the world until a brain change cause by a stroke. My protagonists will be battling a worldwide mutant community. I wrote nearly everyday.ĪSE: “Mind Dwellers”, the second in a series of Dwellers books.

JP: As an author, what is your writing process? How long did it take you to start and finish “Bottom Dwellers”?ĪSE: From start to finish, it took me just over a year to complete “Bottom Dwellers”. JP: As an author, what are the keys to your success that led to “Bottom Dwellers” getting out to the public?ĪSE: The keys to my success are persistence and reaching out to the healthy writing community in Atlanta for knowledge. JP: What sets “Bottom Dwellers” apart from other books in the same genre?ĪSE: “Bottom Dwellers” is also a love story between a man, scuba diving in the lake where he meets the mutants, and a beautiful park ranger who works at the lake. Shane Etter: I got inspiration to write “Bottom Dwellers” from reading an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about houses on the bottom of Lake Lanier near Gainesville, GA. Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write “Bottom Dwellers”?Ī. “Bottom Dwellers” is a supernatural thriller about green mutant people with gills living on the bottom of one of the largest man-made lakes in North Georgia in the USA.

Bottom Dwellers by A. Shane Etter