Happy Birthday, WU!
January 21st, 2008 by Kathleen Bolton
Pardon us while we take a moment to squee. But we’ve reached a milestone at Writer Unboxed. Today WU turns two!
I clearly remember the birth of Writer Unboxed. Therese and I are writers by trade, but aspiring novelists by vocation. We’d been kicking around the idea of unboxed fiction for a long time, admiring writers who took risks, and books that made us go “wow, wish I wrote/thought/dreamed of that.” We were both ready to take our fiction to the next level.
We’d also made friends and connections during our journey, and we thought it’d be fun to share what we’d learned about the industry with other aspiring novelists. I can’t remember which one of us said, “hey, let’s start a blog,” but we both thought it a terrific idea.
I laugh about our naivety now. We’d hooked up with a Blogger platform and after painful forays learning HTML and templates and so forth, we launched WU. Our first month I think we had something like 20 pageviews. Half of those were spam. We were thrilled anyway.
Therese and I make our livings interviewing people, and so we thought, hey, let’s interview novelists and publishing professionals, and ask them the questions writers really want asked. Since our modest start, we’ve interviewed over 50 writers, editors, agents, and other key people in the world of fiction. We’ve learned a lot from them, and we hope you have too.
Therese and I are also mindful that readers might get sick of reading us blah, blah blah every day, so we’ve been lucky to have an amazing array of contributors give their perspectives on the crazy world of writing fiction. We love the opportunity to bring fresh voices to WU, and we’ll keep doing so in the months to come.
Thank you for being a part of WU. We hope you’ll stick around while we turn three.
Happy birthday, WU, and thanks for two great years!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for a consistently great site!
Happy blogiversary! I’m a fairly new reader, looking forward to many more years.
Congratulations! This was the first writing blog I found, and it’s still my favorite.
Bonne Anniversaire, WU! I love this site. The interviews are great and the advice has helped me a lot. Here’s to many more!
Imagine me as Bill Murray, the Lounge Lizard, singing, “Happy An-ni-ver-sary to you” (pointing at you, WU!) Can’t wait to see year three!
and make a wish, birthday girls!!!!
Just wish I’d been dropping by since the first posting. Glad I finally found you. Great site. Best wishes as you set sail for year number three.
Congrats. It’s been a fun ride!
Aww, thanks guys. The comments really keep us trucking, believe me, so thank YOU for being a part of the WU community.
Happy Birthday!
You guys have one of the best writing websites out there, in my humble opinion.
I look forward to reading every morning.
Happy birthday, WU!!!!! I always know I can find good stuff here.