Shannon Bradley-Colleary’s writing career began in 1998 when she sold her original feature, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," to Warner Brothers Studios for Mark Canton and Jeff Robinov.

Screenwriting:
Shannon has since written scripts for Warner Brothers, Disney, Fox Family, TBS and Lifetime Television; covering an array of topics from teen dating abuse to fat farms, casual sex, homophobia, being a child of divorce and the first years of the Second Gulf War.

She’s currently represented as a screenwriter by Ann Blanchard at CAA and her half-hour, single-camera comedy "Kitty With A Whip" is going out to market this month with David O’ Russell tentatively attached. Emma Watson is attached to Bradley-Colleary’s feature length period piece set in 1959 Wakeeny, Kansas, called "Loving Iris."

Blogging:
In 2010 Bradley-Colleary decided to widen her reach by launching her own website called "The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful: Aging Vaintress, Mom Butler, Wife Dominatrix, Surma Stick Fighter," where she blogs about body image, married sex, raising daughters and grappling mano-a-mano with the ignominious aging process.

Shannon’s blogs have garnered her local and national attention on The Today Show, The Daily Mail Online, The Huffington Post, NPR, Raising America with Kyra Phillips, Fox11News, BlogHer, Babble, Aiming Low and Generation Fabulous.

Shannon’s posts have won BlogHer’s Voices of the Year in 2011, 2012 and 2013. This year Shannon’s post, “What I Know About Sex Now That I’m in my 40s,” is one of twelve posts selected out of 2,600 submissions to be read at BlogHer’s conference in Chicago.

Shannon currently maintains between 30,000-90,000 page views a month on her website and is a regular blogger for The Huffington Post. She has a very strong social media footprint on Facebook and Twitter.

Books:
Shannon’s first book, a memoir titled "Into The Child: 40 Weeks in the Gestational Wilderness," was named one of the Top 100 Indie Books of 2012 by The Kirkus Reviews.

“Colleary’s humor and warmth flow seamlessly from conception to birth in this well-written, snappy read. A hysterical account of pregnancy that will resonate with readers who've been through it before.”
– Kirkus Reviews