John M. Harpster was born in Ft. Worth, Texas and raised in Arlington. After several years of odd jobs, he went back to college and got his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California State University in Northridge, CA. His first job after college was in Fort Worth, Texas at General Dynamics. He met and started dating Tamara Stensland, also a software engineer at General Dynamics, and they were married in Dallas, Texas. Before the birth of their son he wrote articles for a computer magazine but put that aside when he became the father of an autistic boy. He and his family live in Lakeside, California with their son John. John returned to writing with his debut book of for the Dancing with the Universe Series, "Doing the E.T. Tango". He is working on additional books for the Dancing with the Universe series and other ideas. He is currently writing on other books, including another satire called "Elijah". He is also building a wooden robot that he can put in the front seat of his car to enable him to drive in the HOV lanes on the freeway. Tamara Harpster was born December 5, 1962, which is also Walt Disney's birthday and the day Mozart died, two facts she has been trying to reconcile ever since she found them out. Her child hood was spent in various cities in the Midwest as her family moved around for her father's job. After graduating from Oklahoma State University she got her first job and met her husband to be on her first project. They married a year later and are still together some 30 years later. In that time she has been a software engineer, motel owner/manager, web developer, project manager and is currently part owner of another small business. In her spare time she works with her husband John to polish up his novels, and do her own writing for blog entries and essays. She is working on a fantasy series "Hero Lottery" and a science fiction novel "Year 2038 Bug". The book "Year 2038 Bug" will be published as a serial on their website.