Maya Blue

A 2025 Kirkus Best Indie Book of the Year 2025 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards Bronze Medal in Non-Fiction: Inspirational “Coffee demonstrates her considerable powers as a storyteller and a wordsmith … delivers suspense and action that rivals any thriller.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A high-stakes, raw memoir of addiction, survival, and reclaiming power from the shadows of chaos. This is one you won’t forget.”—Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper, “The Sunday Paper’s 2025 Summer Reading List” “A memoir of unusual strength, resilience, resonance, and purpose… . At times, astonished readers will do well to stop reading for a moment and remind themselves that the experiences of this remarkable woman and brilliant storyteller are distilled from real life rather than the sweeping imagination of a titan of fiction.”—Readers’ Favorite, 5-star review “Maya Blue reads like a Netflix series. Brenda Coffee’s compelling memoir reminds us of the importance of seizing our power.”—Lee Woodruff, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller In An Instant: A Family’s Journey of Love and Healing “This riveting memoir reads like a thriller. Beautifully written with courageous self-reflection, Brenda Coffee’s harrowing story of survival took my breath away.”—Laura Munson, author of the New York Times bestseller This Is Not the Story You Think It Is and the USA Today bestseller Willa’s Grove “Brenda Coffee has brought us a memoir that is wonderfully hard to put down. Color me Maya Blue!”—Peter Petre, former executive editor of Fortune Magazine “Five stars! I can’t wait to see this memoir on the screen.”—Linda Sivertsen, New York Times best-selling author and host of the acclaimed Beautiful Writers Podcast “I’m an expert in tobacco and addiction, and Brenda survived a remarkable journey. She has my admiration.”—Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, Big Tobacco whistleblower, former VP of research, Brown & Williamson, and focus of Academy Award-nominated film The Insider “Brenda Coffee is the embodiment of bravery, strength, and courage, a badass woman who teaches us to advocate for ourselves.”—Grace Kraaijvanger, Founder & CEO, The Hivery “Coffee rises to show us what it means to be resilient, to fight for one’s survival. You won’t be able to put this one down.”—Laura Whitfield, author of Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground “One of the year’s most thrilling reads. Some memoirs invite you to sit quietly and listen. Maya Blue does the opposite. Brenda Coffee’s story swings the door wide open and pulls you into a life that starts like a dream and veers, chapter by chapter, into places you don’t expect to go. It reads with the tension of a thriller, yet it’s rendered with the candor and empathy of a confidante.”—BookTrib “Brenda Coffee’s powerful story of Maya Blue, in her own voice, was chosen as episode #375 and the opener for Season 15 of the popular podcast This is Actually Happening on the Wondery Podcast Network. In the first two weeks, it had over 150,000 downloads. Amazing!”—Whit Missildine, creator, producer, and host of This is Actually Happening

Brenda Coffee is a businesswoman, public speaker, and former board member and managing consultant to a public company she sold to Big Pharma. She is also the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010ParkPlace.com, home to her popular BRENDA’S BLOG, which has repeatedly been voted a Top 10 Blog/Site for Women Over 50 by FeedSpot. Brenda is the author of The Breast Cancer Sisterhood and Husbands and Heroes: – The Breast Cancer Caregiver, and was formerly a writer for Spirit, Southwest Airline’s magazine. A graduate of Trinity University with a degree in journalism, she lives in San Antonio, Texas.

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