GalenaHouse Publishing

Galena House Publishing is the press of Galena House, a literary house in the Colorado mountains. It publishes very few books, slowly, and makes them the way the house makes everything else: so that the way a thing is built is the way it is felt.

Its books are written at altitude, by lamplight, for the reader who stays up after everyone else has gone upstairs. Each one is printed to order and sent out into the world one copy at a time.

The books

Still, by Design.

Avery Lane Maxwell

A novel, set at a small inn in the Colorado mountains.

Hardcover, blue cloth

ISBN 979-8-9937250-0-0

Paperback

ISBN 979-8-9937250-5-5

From your bookseller, or from the author at averylanemaxwell.com. Booksellers and libraries order through Ingram.

The Amber Thread

The house's magazine of place: essays, stories, and portraits in words of people and places, made by invitation. It is read free in the Epopteia Reader, and its first print edition is being made now.

By Avery Lane Maxwell

What the podcast reads aloud, on the page: the Tuesday essays and the Sunday Room, one a week.

• Actual Size.
  the second Sunday Room
  No. 13 · 11 October 2026 · 12 minutes
• Resemblance.
  what autumn remembers
  No. 11 · 6 October 2026 · 10 minutes
• Where Elias Goes to Write.
  the first Sunday Room
  No. 10 · 4 October 2026 · 8 minutes

From the Journal

Essays on the places around the house: the lake, the passes, the towns at nine thousand feet.

• Come In. It's Already Warm. Is Now on Kindle Pre-order
  The keeper's book is on Kindle pre-order, out Thanksgiving. Every edition of Come In. It's Already Warm., and where to find each one.
  19 October 2026
• The Storyteller at the Front Desk
  Every keeper of a house is also a storyteller, whether they mean to be or not. The podcast that came out of that, and how to listen.
  18 October 2026
• Books for the Keepers: Innkeepers, Hosts, and the People Who Keep a House
  There is a kind of person who keeps the house for everyone else. Galena House makes its books for them. A short guide to which one to give, and to whom.
  18 October 2026

Support the work

A press this small is kept lit by a few people who would simply rather it existed. If the books have kept you company, there are quiet ways to keep them coming.

• Read the book, from the author

  A copy of Still, by Design. bought from the author's own shelf is the surest support of all. Then give it to someone who stays up late. The book, from the author

• Reserve a copy in print

  The Amber Thread goes to print one edition at a time. A copy reserved tells the press how many to make, and costs nothing. On the same page, if you like, a gift to the press in any amount. Reserve a copy

• Become a patron of the press

  Patrons are the reason the paper is good and the portraits take as long as they take. A seat runs from a month of light to a founding place at the table, and every patron receives a key to the Reading Room. The seats

Take a seat at the Patron's Door

By post, always

The press takes its correspondence by letter, and only by letter. Publishing requests, manuscripts, rights, trade, review copies, suggestions for portraits and press all come through the same door: an envelope, to the address below. If Galena House sent you here, this is the door it meant.

Writers who would like the press to consider their work should send a letter first, and no manuscript until one is asked for. Letters are read in the order they arrive and answered by hand. The press publishes outside authors rarely, one at a time, and never to fill a list.

Rights in Galena House titles, including translation, audio and dramatic rights, are held by the press. Permission to quote beyond fair use is given by letter.