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By Paul Biba

Picture 1.pngThis is a long and very interesting interview. Go over and take a look. Here’s an excerpt:

AMoS: What is the Booksquare origin story? When you launched the site, did you expect it to attain its current level of popularity?

KK: Booksquare has a origin story. And it has a rebirth story. We’ll go with the second one because it’s more fun. I started blogging in the vacuum known as Radio Userland. I’m not insulting the software or community, but I couldn’t figure out how to get noticed (writers…what is it about us?). Of course, what I was doing was completely wrong, blog-wise, writing-wise. So I went back into my cave and rethought my thoughts about blogging. Once I understood what I wanted to blog about, I practiced a while (no, seriously, I did about a month of practice blogging before posting my first piece) and settled on a voice.

Which morphed almost immediately. For reasons that made sense at the time, the original voice for Booksquare was the “Royal We.” It felt right, it felt natural. Once I switched to writing under my own name, obviously writing as “we” made no sense. [De gustibus non est disputandum. -Ed.] So the voice changed again—what was once distant and haughty became more personal. Both, sorry, are snarky and cranky.

Obviously, I hoped the site would reach untold millions, but, no, I didn’t really expect it to become popular or influential (at least I like to think it is!). Looking back, I put a lot of hard work and effort into growing the site. I wish I had that same energy today!

 
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