TJ currently lives in Arizona with her mother and her dog, Lucky. She recently took an early retirement from driving a special needs school bus and training new bus drivers to care for her mother and to write full-time. She is also active in Children’s ministry at Church, where she teaches the preschool and kindergarten kids on Sundays and coaches the Children’s Bible Quizzing Team on Thursdays. She loves outer space and everything in it ever since she was a child laying out in the yard star gazing. As a child the original Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars molded her into the science fiction reading and writing person she is today. Yoda has been her hero since she was seven-year-old. Besides reading and writing, she loves to work puzzles and play board games with her mother and their friends. She is always dreaming of space, other planets, and future characters. Nothing and no one are safe from being her muse.