Biography

As a child, Laine thought she was normal. Much later in life she realized her imaginary childhood friends were not imaginary, and houses didn't have voices. As the daughter of a well-known Atlanta Civil War lecturer/historian, C.P. Crosby, Laine grew up cataloging and cleaning cemeteries while helping her father do genealogical research. She was known to have

the uncanny ability to find lost graves whether she was in a cemetery or just "had a feeling" where to go. As she grew older, she focused on her education and a career in marketing and public relations spanning two decades.

Laine began her professional writing career at the age of sixteen when she became the student editor for The Purple Cow, an Atlanta monthly, with a circulation of 40,000. Upon obtaining a scholarship for her writing, Laine attended Agnes Scott College and became the Advertising Editor of the campus newspaper and later worked her way through graduate school as a freelance writer, writing for corporations, magazines and newspapers.

Laine's corporate career spans two decades where she worked in the capacity of director/vice president, building businesses, positioning brands, and launching products for major corporations and start-up companies. Since 2005, Laine has worked as an investigative medium (investigativemedium.com), and spends time working on murder cases, writing about her adventures as a medium, and producing original programming for The Ghost Channel, which can be seen as web casts and downloaded to ipods, computers, and televisions.

Laine's online and broadcast media experience began at The Weather Channel where she worked several years directing and managing all marketing efforts for The Weather Channel Web site (weather.com) brand and launch, 1-900-WEATHER, Radio and Newspaper Distribution, and syndication of The Weather Channel across various interactive delivery media including email and wireless technologies. Laine also managed publicity for weather.com, and was one of two spokespersons for The Weather Channel, where she wrote, produced and directed numerous ads and in-flight segments.

Laine's experience also includes the marketing launch of Wachovia Investments, the investment subsidiary of Wachovia Corporation (NYSE:WB); Coca-Cola USA (NYSE:KO) the Burger King account; the product launch of Kellogg's (NYSE:K) Banana Nut Cereal; and director of marketing for several high-tech start-ups spawned from Georgia Tech's prestigious incubator, the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). Laine earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Georgia State University, a B.A. in economics from Agnes Scott College, and certificates from Georgia Institute of Technology (ecommerce), the University of London (international law) and the University of Tours (international finance). Laine spent many years as a publicist and corporate writer, and after leaving The Weather Channel, she owned the Atlanta-based marketing and public relations firm, the redd group, until she relocated to Maryland in 2004.

Laine moved to a haunted house on an old Maryland plantation and life has never been the same. The shock of leaving the city life was compounded by the realization that she had psychic abilities. Laine's work as a medium has been in The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Baltimore Examiner, and Maryland's The Daily News and Record among other local and national papers. She has appeared on the Michael Medved Show, Eerie Pennsylvania with Brad Christman, and the syndicated Travel Host show with Jeff Campbell, as well as many times on the local WB and Fox News affiliates for Baltimore and DC. She can be seen on the Ghosts of Gettysburg episode of The Travel Channel's Mysterious Journeys, now airing. Laine is a transmedium and is clairaudient, clairsentient, and clairvoyant. Laine has helped historians, historical organizations, authors and archaeologists discover details about the history of locations in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

Mark Nesbitt and Laine are business partners and own the Ghost Channel (www.ghostchannel.tv), and the duo also host the popular Internet talk show, Ghost Talkers, available as a download on the Ghost Channel, and web cast at www.ghosttalkers.net.

Laine's current projects include a non-fiction book about how she moved to a nineteenth century Maryland plantation and literally woke up talking to dead people- and they talked back!
Investigative Medium: The Awakening will make you laugh, cry, and inspire you as soon as 2010.

Laine Crosby is a professor of business and marketing at a Maryland college and lives in an historic Maryland community just north of Washington, D.C.