During her shifts at Wired Joe’s, Jane keeps careful notes about customers’ quirks, preferences and characteristics and uses her coffee clairvoyance to steer them toward potential romantic partners. What remained entertainment for Springer became a matchmaking tool for protagonist Jane. “After a while, it occurred to me that I could tell what people will order.” “When we were dating, my husband and I would go to coffee shops to hang out and people-watch,” Springer said in an interview from her home just outside Chicago, where she lives with said husband and four young children. Plus, a coffee-related skill Springer possesses was imparted to her main character, 17-year-old Jane Turner: the ability to size up people based on their choice of coffee drink. It’s fitting, then, that Springer’s debut young adult novel, The Espressologist, is set in a coffee shop-and was written in one, too. In fact, during the horse-and-carriage segment of her wedding, she and her husband halted the horses so they could pop in to get coffees and take photos. She drinks it often, her kitchen is espresso-themed and she’s a devoted customer of her local Starbucks.
Kristina Springer is unequivocal and unabashed about her love of coffee.
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