About the Author:
BRENDA COFFEE is a published writer, photographer, and filmmaker with a BA in journalism and film. She’s the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010PARKPLACE.COM, home to the popular BRENDA’S BLOG, where you’ll find relevant conversations about finances, friendships, life, sex, culture, and interviews with inspiring women that appeal to the wealthiest, best-educated, most powerful demographic in history: women over 50.
Coffee was the first journalist to drive and fire the Army’s M-1 tank. She did a cable-arrested landing and a catapult takeoff on an aircraft carrier and was on part of the maiden voyage of the USS Dallas nuclear submarine. She’s an adventurer who raced Porsches on the SCCA Solo 1 circuit for nine years, scuba dove and took underwater photographs, searched for minerals and crystals in abandoned silver mines, and hacked her way through three canopy jungles searching for unexcavated Maya ruins in Mexico.
She’s a motivational speaker at conferences and literary events, a businesswoman, and former managing consultant and board member of a public company she sold to Big Pharma. MAYA BLUE A Memoir of Survival is her first memoir. She resides in Texas.
About Brenda’s book MAYA BLUE:
For fans of Breaking Bad and Narcos, a searingly honest and unforgettable memoir that challenges women to rethink everything they know about survival, resilience, and finding their voice.
At twenty-one, Brenda Coffee surrendered herself to her marriage and became a woman who would do almost anything her charismatic and powerful older husband, Philip Ray, wanted. Regardless of whether it was dangerous, adventurous, sexual, or illegal, she wanted to be the one woman he couldn’t live without.
Brenda and Philip’s life together was a fairy tale until it wasn’t. Until Philip, the founder of two high-profile, groundbreaking public companies, began making real cocaine in their basement and became addicted. Until the Big Six tobacco companies threatened their lives for creating the first smokeless cigarette—Brenda coined the terms vape and vaping—and brutal Guatemalan military commandos forced her into the jungle at gunpoint.
A suspenseful, fast-paced memoir that reads like a thriller, Maya Blue will strike a chord with those who’ve lost their voice or had trouble finding their power. It will resonate with those who live with an addict or have grieved the loss of a spouse. But above all, it is an inspiring reminder that as long as you never surrender your voice and always keep your wits about you, you can survive almost anything.
Author visits:
Author visits with Brenda are available via Adventures by the Book here!