From Frisco, Colorado
Literary novels about the places that keep us, and the people who keep arriving at the door.
Still, by Design. · a novel, out now Good Little Innkeeper · a novel, complete
Some places heal you by watching you live.
It began in the early mornings of a small inn on Galena Street.The Amber Thread
Literary fiction from Galena House, written at the front desk of the inn the books describe.
Out now · A novel · Print, ebook and audiobook
At a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, a man who mistook motion for purpose learns to keep time with a house that seems to breathe alongside him, and must decide whether he is ready to belong to a place.
Also an audiobook, seven hours, read in the author's own voice.
A novel · 80,000 words · Complete
Beneath Mount Royal, where the room was always real. The same inn, the same mountain, a harder and truer light: a reckoning with identity, mythology, and the beautiful lies we build in order to survive.
The second novel in the Galena House architecture. Still, by Design. is the atmosphere; this is the reckoning.
The novel unabridged, in the author's own voice, rendered digitally with his consent and disclosed as such. Seven hours of the kettle, the front desk, the gold light crossing the floor one plank at a time. The first chapter is free to listen to, and there is nothing to sign.
On its way to Spotify and Apple Books.
Every book, the magazine, the journal, and the letters both ways, in one room. The first chapter of every book is free, and there is no account to make.
The author built it.
A world built by someone learning to stay inside it.Still, by Design.
Each issue a gathering on the thread: a letter, the features, the photographs. Premium in web and in print, from Frisco, Colorado, or anywhere the desk happens to be.
Open the magazine
Every book is a room in the same house. You do not have to be told which door to open.
Avery Lane Maxwell is a writer and innkeeper in Frisco, Colorado, publishing literary fiction under his own imprint, Galena House. The novels are written in the building they describe, a fifteen-room inn on Galena Street, between arrivals, in the off-season quiet of a mountain town at nine thousand feet.
Still, by Design. is the atmosphere. Good Little Innkeeper is the reckoning. Both are built on one conviction: the way something is built is the way it is felt.
For agents, editors and press: the press room.
For when there is something worth sending. Nothing more often than that.