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

The Coffee Novels and Novella

The properties of the coffee tree, the myth of Kaldi, the power of the roasting process and the history of coffee unite to propel Altonstreet in search of literary inspiration. Trusting Kollo to send him to London in 1675, or thereabouts, Altonstreet lands at the Blackened Bean, accidently accompanied by his friend Philpatrick.

Grab a cup of your favorite coffee beverage and take a seat at the Trier, a funky coffee house in mid-eighties Dayton, where you find humor, romance, and possibly a ghost, but no traces of cell phones, laptops or logo sirens.

Between the immersive coffee house setting, the layered characters, and the way the story lingers even after you’ve closed the book, The Trier delivered an experience I genuinely didn’t want to end. - Cracked Spines & Coffee Stains

Ironjaws is not the first fish story ever told. But it may be the first one to blend fishing with basketball in a way that asks us to think over what teamwork and friendship are, and what winning really is.