About Emma Jane Davies
My name is Emma. I am British. I grew up in Nottingham. I have also lived in Matlock, Derbyshire, and in Nice, in the South of France. I currently live in Sheffield, with my long-term partner. We live in an Edwardian house in a leafy garden district on the south west side of Sheffield. We own a manic but very clever chocolate-coloured working cocker spaniel called Jasper.
My dad is a college lecturer, and he looks after my mum, who is disabled. My little sister, Sarah, was the bass guitarist for a girlband called "Hepburn". Hepburn reached number eight in the UK singles charts with their first single "I Quit". You might remember the annoying cockney accent of the lead singer. They also appeared on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack.
I have two degrees, one in social sciences, and the other in writing. After leaving university, I taught myself to program computers and design websites. I write visual basic, vb.NET, SQL, HTML and JavaScript. I can never stick to learning about one subject.
I have toyed with the idea of doing a medical degree. Under another persona, I do a lot of blogging on the subject of health, nutrition, and medicine. I run a support group for people with food intolerances. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia when I was thirteen, but it turned out that this was a misdiagnosis, and I am actually hypothyroid. Now I am taking the right medicine, I am getting better.
Because I am very quiet, people tend to assume that there is nothing between my ears. In fact I have an IQ of 145. Although I am rubbish at maths. Some interesting genes and personality types run in my family. We seem to produce either wildly extrovert musicians and actors, or crazy solitary inventors and engineers. I am very shy and can be difficult to talk to at first, though once I know you, I can be hard to shut up. I work better in one-to-one situations.
It is always dangerous to talk about politics and religion. I am an atheist. I am not even slightly mystical. Sorry, I do not believe in fairies. I am a scientist. I greatly admire Richard Dawkins. Because of my background in sociology, I passionately believe in equality for all, feminism, sexual liberation, rights for young people, and the end of racism and homophobia, though I am too cynical to believe in the Marxist dream.
I like goths, skaters, hippies,punks, emo kids and alternative types. Witches and pagans fascinate me. I am not a goth, I am a chameleon. I have a kooky dress style. If I could dress up as a pirate every day and get away with it, I would. I do not subscribe to any one social group, as I like dressing up too much.
I have wanted to be a writer since being small. I love speculative fiction, anything escapist – science fiction, fantasy, horror. I wrote several lengthy unfinished novels and many short stories when I was younger. I have struggled for many years with concentration problems. I am usually in a state of writer’s block, so I have a habit of writing prolifically on all other subjects than the ones I should be writing. With much effort and a carefully planned regime, I have knuckled down and I am currently working seriously on a contemporary fantasy novel.
For those who arrived here via google and still want to know: no, I'm not a comedy actress, a showbiz agent, an artist, a glamour model, or an olympic cyclist. Those are all other Emma Davieses.
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