I was born in Brooklyn, New York. I am an author, Joanbeesley.com, with five books on Amazon. Ive written a screenplay based on my novel, 40 Shades of Green: The Junkman of Brooklyn. I've also written the screenplay as a feature film, as I wanted to tell the whole incredible tale myself.

After graduating from The College of New Rochelle in New York with a BA in English I obtained a Masters from John Carroll University in Cleveland to teach English to disadvantaged youth in the inner city. This occurred just after the Cleveland riots.

I then went to work in New York for TIme-Life Inc. where I held several positions including assistant to the Editor of Time-Life Books. I took the subway down to NYU at night working on my Ph.D in English Lit.

I moved to Denver and worked writing new technology plans in telecommunications. I now am involved in theatre, play-writing and have taken several courses locally and with ScreenwritersU to adapt my novel to a screenplay to get this story to the screen!

"40 Shades of Green: The Junkman of Brooklyn" is the story of my great-great grandfather Michael Flynn, recounting events beyond his death at 88, a stern Irishman confined to his bed with arthritis. Starting out as a junkman in the late 1800's, he passes on his global aluminum and steel window empire to his sons and grandsons after WWI and II. Was the magic, talent and entrepreneurship of the family patriarch handed down intact through the Flynn family, The Forty Shades of Green? No stranger to terrorism himself, I'd like to share the touching ending as Michael Flynn alters the destiny of the author herself.