Way back in 2014, when my daughter was teething (she’s now ten and will LOVE me telling this story), I used to drive around all night so that the rocking of the car would send her to sleep. I wasted countless hours (not to mention hundreds of pounds in diesel), but at some point in the exhaustion I stumbled upon a 24-hour drive through coffee place that changed everything. Exhausted and loaded up with espressos and Diet Coke, I spent a dozen nights developing a story that started at the end, combined my love of rugby, gangsters and unrealistically-attractive police officers, and saw a coffee shop held up over a piece of stale apple pie. From there, All Night Joe’s was born.
Having been completed in 2016, bounced around international film festivals and screenwriting competitions since 2017, and parked on a hard drive while I moved on to other things during the pandemic, I am thrilled to announce that the screenplay for All Night Joe’s will finally be available to buy in paperback and ebook format for the first time from November 30th, 2023. It’s a bit of a departure from Beware the Boy and The Soprano, but hopefully you’ll have as much fun with it as I did.
M.A.
