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 fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain.

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.

From the Journal

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

• The Hour Lake Dillon Turns to Glass
  Before the wind comes up the valley, the reservoir goes still enough to hold the mountains twice. Most people sleep through it.
  2 October 2026
• What Frisco's Main Street Sounds Like in October
  Between the aspens and the snow, the mountain town lets out its breath. Some mornings you can hear the creek from the middle of the street.
  2 October 2026
• Boreas Pass, Where the Railroad Became a Road
  The grade is gentle because trains could not climb steeply. Walk it, or drive it slowly, and you are moving at the pace of another century.
  2 October 2026

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.