Biography

Recently, James Byerley has published his first novel, "A Battle at the Fingertips: The IMFish.net Archives - Book 1", a Christian fiction, techno-terrorism thriller (Page Publishing, 2019). His favorite author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

The novel is endorsed by William D. Watkins, most known for the Christian nonfiction book "The New Absolutes".

James Byerley realized he was a Christian at the age of five. As a high school business and technology teacher, nine years of his career has been as an online instructor, and four of them have taken place in public school. At forty-seven years of age, he is father of two sons and married to his wife of twenty-eight years, who is also a teacher. He has an MS degree in secondary education at Nova Southeastern University and has participated in its doctoral program in educational leadership.

Byerley also attended Colorado Christian University and the University of Colorado at Boulder in his undergraduate years, wherein he met his spouse. From 1995 to 2001 and in 2019, he has participated in the Colorado Christian Writers’ Conference/Seminar and others.

He was educated abroad at TASIS, a private American school in England, from grade five through his sophomore year in upper school. Thereafter, he graduated at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado (graduation 1990). He has done extensive research on the debate over internet addiction and virtual communities (social media), and currently teaches an online course about social media. The book that most influenced him to write this novel was the nonfiction best seller The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, by Howard Rheingold (Addison-Wesley, 1993).