Colleen Mooney

\nAuthor Bio Colleen Mooney\n\nColleen Mooney is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author. She was born and lived much of her life in New Orleans before a job moved her to other cities. She writes a cozy mystery series set in New Orleans. It’s called The New Orleans Go Cup Chronicles and the third book, Drive Thru Murder, was released in early April. \n\nSince January 2017 Colleen organized a Sisters In Crime chapter in New Orleans, has been elected President and has a planned a Mystery Writers’ Conference for June. She is currently working on her 4th book in the Brandy Alexander series. You would expect her protagonist with a name like Brandy Alexander to be a stripper instead of the girl next door with a serious passion for rescuing dogs. Brandy has a way of being in the eye of every storm that seems to go through the city and we’re not talking about the weather. In the city known as The Big Easy, Brandy Alexander’s life is like a Category 5 Hurricane. You have to ask, Is there anything in Brandy Alexander’s life that is not complicated? There’s no place like New Orleans to have a good crime!\n\nColleen was born and raised in New Orleans and lived in the Irish Channel along with just about everybody else in her family. She says, “New Orleanians are a lot like boomerangs or homing pigeons. If we move away, we always move back.” \n\nColleen worked in corporate America for twenty-one years before retiring and has lived in Birmingham, Atlanta, New Jersey and New York. She moved back to New Orleans every time before another corporate reorganization would transfer her to another city.\n\n“My vacation and work related travels opened my eyes as to how different we are in New Orleans. We are very different from the rest of the state, let alone the rest of the country. We have different laws, different food and the way we cook it, different weather, different things we celebrate and how we celebrate them. We even have a different language in some cases. Everyone thinks New Orleans is all about a good time in the French Quarter or on Bourbon Street, but those of us from here know that’s only the tip of the iceberg, well, if we had icebergs.” \n\nColleen loves to travel and do new things. She is an avid Scuba diver and Underwater photographer, owned and raced sailboats in the Gulf of Mexico, Key West and the BVI. She has owned a motorcycle and has skied Colorado, Idaho, California, New York State as well as the German and Austrian Alps. \n\nIn New Orleans, she’s been active in many Mardi Gras Krewes, Super Krewes, and organizations and has belonged to the Krewe of Cork, Orpheus, Iris, Tucks, Joan of Arc and the Halloween Krewe of Boo. Colleen says she has never met a parade she didn’t like. \n\nShe’s an ardent animal lover and the Director for a breed rescue, Schnauzer Rescue of Louisiana for the last fifteen years. She has rescued and placed over 300 abandoned or surrendered Schnauzers. She loves to write, and writes about what she loves. Colleen says, “New Orleans is where it all happens for me.”\n\n\n\nFeel free to email/contact Colleen at one of the following:\nEmail: colleen@colleenmooney.com \nFacebook: www.facebook.com/ColleenMooneyAuthor \nWebsite: www.colleenmooney.com \nTwitter: mooney_colleen@twitter.com \nGoodreads:\nhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8548635.Colleen_Mooney\n\n\n