Poet, programmer, procrastinator, sci-fi geek, coffee snob, actor, writer. A devoted Christian, Jim is a quiet and thoughtful man who tends to think deeply, and act slowly. Much of this inner reflection and self-assessment shows up in his writing. "Capturing what truly motivates us," is how Jim describes his approach to both fiction and non-fiction. This author has a very direct, and sometimes in-your-face, way of writing. He tries to always use conversational language, and as one test reader of a work in progress put it, "made the complexities of space flight seem almost understandable." Jim