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    In Search of the Perfect Cup
    In Search of the Perfect Cup
    In Search of the Perfect Cup
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    In Search of the Perfect Cup

    By Russ Crossley

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    Trevor Watkins writes coffee table books, but now he faces his biggest project yet. A coffee table book about coffee!

    Problem: everyone he talks to has a different opinion of the perfect cup. Finally he discovers Almost, Oregon, a mysterious town where rumor has it there exists the best coffee in the world.

    Trevor journeys to Almost and discovers more than the perfect cup. Much more.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher53rd Street Publishing
    Release dateOct 13, 2017
    ISBN9781386146650
    In Search of the Perfect Cup
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    Russ Crossley

    International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com.  He loves to hear from readers  

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      In Search of the Perfect Cup - Russ Crossley

      In Search of the Perfect Cup

      In Search of the Perfect Cup

      Russ Crossley

      53rd Street Publishing

      In Search of the Perfect Cup

      Russ Crossley

      Published by 53rd Street Publishing

      Copyright 2013 Russ Crossley

      All rights reserved

      Cover art © FairytaleDesign/depositphotos

      Cover designed by R. Edgewood

      Cover design and layout copyright 2017 by 53rd Street Publishing

      53rd Street Publishing

      Head office: Gibsons B.C. Canada

      www.53rdstreetpublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.

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      In Search of the Perfect Cup

      About the Author

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      In Search of the Perfect Cup

      Trevor Watkins sat prone in front of his Mac his fingers poised over the keyboard staring at the empty page. The gray cursor at the left side of the screen flashed intermittently as if to urge his long, narrow fingers to write. Something anything. Instead, it reminded him of his failure. His advance was nearing depletion and he had nothing to show for it. At least very little his publisher would appreciate .

      The only thing interrupting the silence in his study came from his extra large tumbler of cola. It popped and fizzed to its own drummer oblivious to his frustration. The air was filled with the odor of sweet cola.

      In conducting his research, Trevor had traveled to every country and city on Earth to find the perfect cup.

      Not in the Paris café’s or the Istanbul coffee houses or the London bistro’s or the finest New York restaurants or even in the Mall of America. It seemed nowhere on God’s blue Earth was the perfect cup to be found. He’d drunk so much swill that he was certain his blood had been replaced by black ooze. He was also sure he’d die of a coffee overdose before he finished. Either that or his editor would kill him. Of the two options open to him right now he preferred the latter. Wally would kill him for sure.

      The editor

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