Screen name:Emberchyld
Real name, gender, location, profession (only if you want to):Carla (aka Carli), female, NJ, mechanical engineer (in the medical device field)
Are you here as a reader, writer, or both?Both
How did you first become a fan of Star Trek?I used to be deathly afraid of TOS-- Dad was watching an episode once when I was about 4 and the plot scared me so much that I used to have nightmares about it and refused to watch anything Trek-related. Fortunately, TNG converted me: I was spending my summer in Portugal at my grandparents' home and was flicking through the TV channels. TNG was on one of the channels, subtitled, so I ended up watching it because it was in English and the Portuguese soap operas were boring me. I came back that summer converted.
Are you interested in any other fandoms?I loved Voyager and the rest of my fandoms were *sigh* doomed series: Earth 2, Forever Knight, Dracula the Series...
What's your favorite Enterprise fanfic?I love so many authors that it's hard to pick. Distracted and Linda are way up there are favorite fic writers, but I love them all!
What was the last book you read?Uhm, I'm in the middle of: "The Time Traveller's Wife" (very very good so far), "Strange New Worlds 10", "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (re-read)". Just finished "Avalon High, Coronation" and "Queen of Babble in the Big City" (both by Meg Cabot), and "Mirror Universe: Glass Empires" (loved it. I don't even like TOS *see above for reason*, but I lent the book to my dad and told him to read the TOS story-- amazing)
Hobbies:Reading, writing, ballet, and I just started figure skating last year. (I used to fence and kickbox, but incurred an injury that's limited me in those, so I needed somewhere to go to for all of my colorful bruises and injuries. Sadly, my major injury occured in neither of those sports, but in ballet!) In my spare time

I crochet, knit, and sew. And collect fabric. Because she who dies with the most fabric wins.
I guess that's all about me!