This is a good post and you should feel good.

I like the part about Soraya Saga and her response to you. It's wonderful when creators of fiction react like that to the fans of their work.

The stories that did this for me as a teenager were themselves about the power of stories (Sandman, as much as I'm loath to admit it now given the pictures that conjures up of overenthusiastic, clueless, vaguely creepy goth girls). Which is kind of meta, I guess.