Coffee Novelist

I don’t write about coffee, I write about what coffee does. How it collects us, unites us and affects us.

An all-time favorite post of mine, reposted for National Coffee Day The land before Starbucks In Tripio, Jay’s prehistoric coffee landscape does share much with the one in which the modern barista roams. Tripio is three plots and narratives alongside and intertwined with each other. The Starbucks growth narrative is told from a barista’s perspective. …

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The story of a coffee house  Tripio opens with a prologue, which was the suggestion of my editor. He felt the book needed something to grab the reader right away. My immediate reactionary, immature and arrogant thought was that Tripio is great and that its greatness demands patience! Those thoughts did not travel from my …

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