Before the Coffee Gets Cold is the first of a series of 5 sequence novels with continuing themes and titles including: Before Your Memory Fades, Before We Say Goodbye and Before We Forget Kindness. The writer is a screenwriter and author born in Osaka.

Humans of New York (HONY) is by no means a new book on the market. In fact, there's some who even question if it should be called a book, or if the author should be described as a writer. This is because the collection of stories in it are drawn directly from the social media blogs of the same name on Facebook and Instagram. Many who follow HONY would already be familiar with its characters and photos online -yet looking at them in a book brings them closer. It's like looking at photos of friends whom you realise you don't know personally, but whose experiences have nevertheless become part of you.