My name's Emily Martha Sorensen, and I started this comic strip around July of 2002, a month before I married my wonderful husband, Ben.  I drew over a hundred strips before I posted anything online, and only then, once I was confident that I could keep to a good update schedule, I launched my first website in March of 2003.  By July of 2003, I had moved the site to Keenspace, now Comicgenesis, and it's stayed there ever since.  I based Aylia loosely on myself, Felincia and Jenny more loosely on different sides to my personality, and many of the other characters in this strip on friends of mine.

I graduated with a degree in English from BYU in April 2005, and I am now working as a front-end supervisor at Michaels, the arts and crafts store.  My husband, Ben, graduated with a degree in English a year before me, and is now working as an editor at a phone directories company.  Both of us are content with our current jobs, though we both dream of publishing our fiction books someday.  I've been working very hard to achieve that dream, so I hope that sometime in the near future, I will be able to announce good news on that score.

I've loved books since I was four years old and first learned to read, so of course I have a large collection of them that's always growing.  I have about sixty favorite authors, but only six favorite favorite authors, the distinction being that my favorite favorites write books I wish I had written myself.  Here they are:

My favorite books include, but are not limited to, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Fablehaven by Brandon Mull, Archer's Goon by Diana Wynne Jones, The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, almost anything by L. J. Smith, and my favorite book of all time: The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle.

I discovered anime soon after coming to college, and I've been an otaku ever since, though I'm not your typial otaku -- I hate ecchi (dirty) series, I love shoujo, and I go nuts over magical girl anime.  Because of this, I inspired the character of Himeno in my friend Shada's comic strip -- go read Nowhere University, if you don't know who I'm talking about!

My favorite animes are mostly shoujo, though not all of them; here's a list of my favorite anime series, in order of obsession:

The TV shows I have been, or am currently, obsessed with are:

And my favorite cartoons include Avatar, the Last Airbender, Batman Beyond, Ben 10, Jem and the Holograms, She-Ra (I mentioned I'm a magical girl nut), Spider-Man (the good one from the nineties), and X-Men (the good one from the nineties).

Have any other questions?  Wanting to talk personally?  Feel free to e-mail me -- I won't bite!  (Much.  ;P)

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