About Jim Pence
James H. (Jim) Pence turned to writing as a helpful means of expression after the death of his infant daughter, Michelle. Seven years later, Dallas Seminary’sKindred Spirit Magazine published A Road Not Chosen, Jim’s narrative account of his and his wife’s experience.
In 2001, Jim broke into book publishing with How to Do Everything with HTML, a book on Web authoring “by a non-techie for non-techies”, published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. He followed this book the same year with Cascading Style Sheets: A Beginner’s Guide also published by Osborne. A second addition of Jim’s HTML book, re-titled How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, was released by Osborne in 2003.
Although writing Web design books was a great experience, Jim’s passion is fiction. He is the author of Blind Sight, a suspense/thriller novel set in the mind-control cults. Blind Sight was published in May of 2003 by Tyndale House and sold over 8,000 copies.
His most recent novel, The Angel, was released by Kregel Publications in May of 2006. Set against the backdrop of the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide movements, The Angel provides a chilling look at what can happen when society no longer values human life. This novel is also a poignant and compelling portrayal of one man’s struggle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
Jim is a 1978 graduate of Dallas Bible College, and a 2003 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary. He has been in full-time ministry since 1978, and served fifteen years as pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in Greenville, Texas. In May of 2000 Jim felt that God was calling him to devote more time to prison ministry, so he resigned his pastorate and founded Tuppence Creative Ministries, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in the arts for the Glory of God.
Jim and his wife Laurel recently celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary. They live on six acres in the country, northeast of Dallas, Texas. They have two children: Chris (19) and Charlene (15). Chris is in the army and is stationed at Fort Polk in Leesville, Louisiana.