November to November

If you’re reading this, thank you.

Screenshot of my first post - The Bathhouse: Part 1

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Almost a year ago, I hit publish on the first part of The Bathhouse series. At the time, I was just trying to process an experience I had in a bathhouse that I thought might make for a good erotic tale. I didn’t think it was a series. I didn’t think I was an “erotica writer.” But that experience needed to be surgically extracted from my mind in a way only writing could do. Which is why, when I read that first part now, the blow-by-blow structure of it makes complete sense. I was really reliving every moment of that encounter. A year later, The Bathhouse is in a much different place. I’m not reliving something through story, the characters are making it. There’s a plot. It’s an honest-to-goodness story and it reads so differently from that very first part, I’ve considered making it a standalone piece.

But that first exorcism-by-writing I began nearly a year ago started something else, too. I decided I would give this erotica writing thing a shot. I’d commit and see what happened. So I wrote and published to a nonexistent audience, with the goal of releasing something once a week. Naturally, life got in the way, as it does, but I’m proud of what I’ve accomplished in the last year. I have published eight audio episodes and thirty-six stories, including three series, ranging from humor to satire to gritty noir to high fantasy. I have 188 subscribers and two thousand people have viewed my work in the last thirty days. Honestly, I cannot believe it.

And there are so many more stories to tell. But the main one I want to make space for today is one of gratitude. Gratitude for you.

If you’re reading this, thank you.

Thank you for being interested in my words, even if only moderately so. Thank you for your patience as I figure out the shape of this thing called Maia Woodhouse. Thank you for your comments and engagement. Thank you for doing me the honor of trusting me with your desires.

Thank you for this year.

Here’s to another three-hundred and sixty-five days of discovery together 🥂

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What’s been your favorite story from the last year? What are you looking forward to getting more of?

💛 Maia

Take a walk on the wild side.