About Us
Adam and Justin met at a conference for artists in Virginia when Justin was still a teenage hipster on his way to Brown University and Adam was a young married guy dabbling in music, community theater, and sculpture. Several years later, Justin contacted Adam for some personal coaching. He had graduated from college and was trying to decide whether he really wanted to pursue a writing lifestyle. After five sessions of coaching, Justin was fired up and ready to go to Oxford and learn to speak British and write more gooder, which he clearly needed help with.
More years went by, and Adam thickened around the middle by eating huge plates of shrimp pad thai, while Justin kept in kung fu shape, until one day they met up in Cha’am, Thailand at another conference and started brainstorming a fictional character together—Stetson Jeff Stetson. Soon they met again in Goshen, Indiana and signed a few legal forms to start a partnership company called Cha’am Cowboys Publishing, so we could publish co-written Stetson Jeff Adventures on Amazon, which is a crazy, funny project with three co-written books published that makes us $4 a month. Don’t be fooled by our high earnings. Stetson Jeff is awesome. He brings people together. Namely, us.
We realized after a while that although groups for aspiring authors often offer critique (and we could do that too) they rarely provide the support needed for everything from time management and practical habits to publishing and marketing your book. The bottom line, we realized, was developing the discipline of putting words on the page.
We want to help you move from an aspirational value for writing to a real, practicing lifestyle as a writer. We did it, and continue to do it, in the middle of very busy family lives with other entrepreneurial projects swirling about. You can, too.
Justin Fike Vital Statistics
Master of Creative Writing from Oxford University. Has published two fantasy novels, with two more in the works for 2019. Likes to read fantasy and sci-fi. Eats coffee beans and author publishing articles for breakfast. In training to be a kung fu master. Electronic marketing savant. Married with one daughter. Lives in Colorado.
Favorite quote: “Don't complain about results you aren't getting from work you haven't done."
Second favorite quote: "Is anyone going to eat that?"
Adam G. Fleming Vital Statistics
Professional Certified Coach according to the International Coach Federation. Has also published one literary fiction novel and two nonfiction books. Likes to read literary stuff. Eats plantain and barracuda whenever in Belize. Plays Vintage Base Ball in the summer. Married, with three boys and one girl. Lives in Indiana.
Favorite quote: “There’s no limit to what you someone can do, so long as they don’t care who gets the credit.”
Second favorite quote, “It’s stupid to have only one favorite quote.”
Third favorite quote: “I will write the copy for that About Us page if it will help you get the whole thing set up by tomorrow, or the next day, or sometime this month. And you don’t have to give me any credit for doing it.”
