Justin Fike

When I was in the throws of the inevitable adolescent growing pains that accompany the early teen years, I frequently felt torn between several seemingly irreconcilable interests that all offered viable paths into the future. I love history (which I eventually focused my undergrad years on), writing (which is my current passion), technology, travel, politics and philosophy, martial arts, the great outdoors, and so on. How to boil all of those things down into a single coherent answer to the multiple variations of "so what do you want to be when you grow up?" Thankfully I gave up trying some time ago. I currently run a small digital production and publication company I started a few years back while frantically searching for any excuse to avoid the corporate typhoon that was sucking up all of my friends as we sailed from the safe harbor of our alma maters. Equus Digital Publishing handles digital projects large and small with creativity and efficiency, and has recently begun working on some super-secret in-house projects of our own. In my copious (*snort*) spare time, I'm slowly chipping away at two separate novels I've been working on in one form or another for close to 10 years now. Thankfully I'm finally finished with revisions and am making slow but steady progress on drafts that I actually feel good about, so hopefully I'll have something publishable within a year or two. Otherwise, I look for any excuse I can find to expand my horizons and my skillsets. I'm increasingly convinced that the future belongs to those who become well rounded enough to engage many different spheres and interests with grace, creativity, originality, and excellence, rather than developing extreme competence at fitting the same square pegs through the same square holes. Here's hoping I'm right on that one.