Terry Slade taught himself to write by reading other authors, including David Baldacci, Stephen King, Ayn Rand, James Patterson, Josh Grisham and many others. His first novel, The Choir, was published in 2002, and from then on, he wrote many other stories that he hopes to publish in a collection, and another completed novel. He also has three novels in process of being written.

Terry Slade is also a composer of classical and Christian music with nearly seventy pieces completed, and several in the process. He is a drummer, keyboardist, and French Hornist. Terry Slade currently lives in New Mexico.