I created this web site in order to share ideas about how and why I came to create a series of stories about a group of twelve fictional, international characters who lead interesting lives, have adventures, and, incidentally, enjoy drinking really great coffee. These people are known collectively as The Coffee Bar Gang®
This is a project that I have been working on for a few years now and it combines three activities that I enjoy in my retirement – writing, painting, and making music.
Over time, more characters came into existence so, alongside the TCBG, we now have a Barista Series including The Barista Collective, Legendary Baristas, and a growing set of contemporary ‘Block-Buster’ Baristas.
The current website ‘Objective’, therefore, is simply to present interesting ‘content’ for readers to sample and enjoy at their leisure.
Moving on from there, however, I would also like to ‘monetise’ some of the Blog activities by publishing short stories and selling associated ‘collectables’ e.g. art prints of characters, coffee mugs, calendars, note-lets and cards, featuring the characters and their stories.
It would be good too, if we were able to create a bespoke range of coffee products?
On that note, you will see that we have a page set aside for a TCBG SHOP. Once the blog is underway we will install an e-commerce ‘plug-in’ and start trading!
Happy Days!