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I received my BFA from the school of Journalism at USC with a minor in Spanish. I worked as an on-air reporter in Palm Desert at KMIR TV news. I’ve been interviewed for articles on this site by The Today Show, NPR and Studio LA Fox 11 News. I also blog for The Huffington Post and Aiming Low. I’ve been syndicated in London Mail Online, Babble, MomsLa and BlogHer as a reviewer, memoirist, reporter and humorist. To see clips and discuss rates you may contact me at shannoncolleary@aol.com.
I’m an MFA graduate of the UCLA school of Theater, Film and Television where I was one of 5 writers selected by industry judges for the Specs Appeal showcase.
I’ve worked as a screenwriter for Jeff Robinov and Mark Canton at Warner Brothers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron at Storyline, the WB and TBS, Arturo Interian for the Lifetime Channel for Women, and Beth Miller at the Disney Channel. I’ve also worked for the DeAngelis Group Entertainment on a production re-write in Cape Town, South Africa.
To see script writing samples and negotiate rates you can call my representative, Joel VanderKloot, at Nelson, Davis and Wetzstein, 310-214-4800. If you’re interested in blog posts or magazine work you can contact me directly via email or phone.
I’m also available to work as a writing coach. I’m currently working with Life Coach Johanna Sawalha formerly of The Handel Group. You may email me directly at shannoncolleary@aol.com for rates.
All media inquiries can reach me at 310-463-2267
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So glad that I found your blog. I’ve been surfing around and I love your writing. We have some similarities in our backgrounds. I look forward to reading more and I hope that you’ll skip on over to my site and check my shit out. Thanks,
Dani
Will do!
Shannon, your writing is lyrical, fun-loving and inspiring. Did you make a Faustian bargain with “someone” in order to receive this gift, or did it emanate spontaneously, if inscrutably, from some aspect of your self? It’s well documented how American girls and women struggle with the dominant media marketing composite of “what and how a woman is supposed to be” (translated: “the image our sponsors are paying us to induce girls and women to internalize to the point of desperation where they’ll buy just about anything to relieve the implied pressure of not measuring up”). I appreciate that your writing normalizes that struggle, and posits the radical notion that maybe, just maybe, women, and the girls they cherish and guide into womanhood, deserve to define for themselves every aspect of what it means to be a woman, from physical qualities, to career aspirations, to how to partner with someone, to making lives of meaning by their internal lights. Appreciate you being one of the vanguard of capable women (and committed men who are working with them) guiding their sisters (mothers, siblings, daughters, extended relatives) to develop the self-compassion, the self-appreciation and the resulting courage to put the commercial distortions of “womanhood” and “femininity” behind them. Recommend the book by Mary Pipher, “Reviving Ophelia”, as it confronts the soul-shriveling impact of commercial culture on the culture of women, starting with girlhood. Words can heal. A(wo)men.
This comment made me swoon. I’ve only just awoken to discover myself lying next to my computer with an egg-like lump on the back of my head where I hit it on the floor after passing out. Your prose, your humor, your coinage of phrases, your elan. I love you. Where can I read you? And thank you for all the compliments. I’m a bit of a compliment fisherwoman so I appreciate catching a few and gobbling them up. xo
This second comment is per business, hardly gratuitous, promise. For what it’s worth, there are some editing omissions which, once implemented, will bring this “hire me” ‘verbal candid’ page to the level of “even more spiffy”. That will only add lustre (okay, ‘luster’) to your already excellent presentation.
Item 1: “I’m an MFA graduate of the UCLA school of Theater, Film and Television where I was one of 5 writer’s selected by industry judges for the Specs Appeal showcase.” — suggest removing the apostrophe in “writer’s”.
Item 2: “I’ve worked as a screenwriter for Jeff Robinov and Mark Canton at Warner Brothers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron at Storyline, the WB and TBS, Arturo Interian for the Lifetime Channel for Women and Beth Miller at the Disney Channel. I’ve also worked for the DeAngelis Group Entertainment on a production re-write in Cape Town, South Africa.” –as you sequence four elements within this sentence, the rigidly unforgiving rules of grammatical usage suggest a comma ought to follow the word “Women”. I know, who eats their grammatical broccoli all the time? For that matter, why does the dog turn up its nose when said ‘broccoli’ is offered? Just because they’re both metaphorical is no reason for the refusal.
Item 3: “To see writing samples and negotiate rates you can call my representative Joel VanderKloot at Nelson, Davis and Wetzstein 310-214-4800 or contact me directly through my email.” Use commas to offset “Joel VanderKloot”, and to offset “310-214-4800″.
Not snarky suggestions. If you’re offering your writing talent, I figured you’d want to present your writing in its most polished form.
I will be recommending your wonderful, girl and woman mental/emotional health-promoting blogging to many in my personal and social networks. Write on.
Flow not only am I not annoyed by your recommendations I intend to take every one of them. My Strunck and White’s a little dusty. Thank you for your fabulous attention to detail. xo
Last comment, which I felt compelled to make after reading your blog entry, “Walk the Walk, Naked Lady”.
A woman’s beauty is in her substance: how she carries herself, her sense of dignity, poise, character, personality and self-compassion. From within this frame, it is easy to see that women become more attractive and compelling as they age. By this measure, all other judgements of beauty are, I believe, superficial, unfortunate, and begging the truth. I get that, through your writing, you’re processing your way free of the surly bonds of culturally dictated standards of attractiveness, and arguing for the values I’ve mentioned. I admire how you represent those values handsomely, and that you rock 46 in the bargain. Regards.
No, I am not a deer caught-in-the-headlines she-walks-on-water rabid fan. (Not yet, anyway.) But I AM, most definitely … How shall we say? …. “Impressed.”
“Impressed” is worth its weight in gold.
Buy the book — WHATEVER it is!
thank you Joel. Into The Child might not be your wheelhouse, but I’m working on a second very slender (sadly) memoir that will be current and hopefully a crowd pleaser.
RE: How Many Lovers is Too Many? So disheartening.
Ms. Bradley-Colleary, I would have posted this comment on Huffpost, but am not willing to give them access to my email contact list.
Would a man with a “broad sexual history” be judged as anything other than … a man? Would his friends fixate on his “number”? Yes! He’d be revered, envied, and emulated as a master pick-up artist. Perhaps you didn’t search for what was wrong with you when you went through your “promiscuous phase” because there was nothing wrong with you. Admittedly, I’m over-the-top cranky about our ongoing political insanity, but please. It’s nearly 2013 and male politicians are still trying to control women’s lives. Musings like these help perpetuate the stereotypes and fixed role expectations that allow it to continue. Sex goddess? Crunchy granola? Strumpet? I hope it’s important to you that your daughters as adults can explore their sexuality as fully as they like without judgment. That they have access to full affordable health care and can make their own sexual and reproductive decisions, medically necessary or not, without it being anyone else’s concern. That they have educational opportunities and earning power equal to men. I’m glad to read that you’ve decided to stop judging others’ sexual histories. You seem sincere and you have a national audience. I hope to see a piece from you in the near future that I can take seriously. KR
Hi KR — thank you for holding me to a higher standard. I was perhaps ineffective in conveying my desire to pull the curtain away from my own subconscious prejudice. I passionately agree with your position on women’s rights and sexual equality. Despite this I’ve soaked in the cultural mores of my place and time. In examining -publicly – my own foibles I hope to eradicate them and perhaps to shine a light for people who may struggle with their own inchoate prejudices. Thank you for reminding me to sit a little longer with my piece before pressing SEND.
I just read “The Virgin Marriage” on Huff Post from a Twitter feed today entitled “What my Mormon brother taught me about premarital sex.” I was very pleased with the writing and then got to the end of the story when I realized it was you that wrote it! We went to school together, I am casual friends with Gina and was mostly surprised to see what a good writer you are. I just think the world of you and your endeavors now! Just wanted you to know you have a new fan in social media!
Hi Mark — thanks so much for letting me know! I tend to write these posts too quickly to give them a lot of thought so once I press submit I always have a bit of a rock in the pit of my stomach. Best to you and keep reading!
I have just found your blog, and I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to find it!! Your writing is witty, intelligent, and truly, something for all of us women dealing with motherhood to soak up, and enjoy. Oh, and thanks for posting the nude pictures! Those were fantastic. And, I remember always thinking myself “fat” back in the day. I look at my pictures now, and think: Stupid!
Well thank you for being happy to find me. I need approval like plants need sun.