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 is her first memoir. She resides in Texas.

Books by Brenda Coffee

Maya Blue: A Memoir of Survival

by Brenda Coffee - Memoir, Nonfiction

At 21, 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.