Galena House Publishing.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.
There is a kind of person who keeps the house for everyone else. The innkeeper with the coffee on before the first guest wakes. The aunt whose kitchen is where the family actually gathers. The friend who always has a spare room ready, and somehow a towel already folded on the bed.
Galena House makes its books for them. Here is which one to give, and to whom.
For the one who keeps the house: Come In. It’s Already Warm.
The keeper’s book. A large hardcover, eight and a half by eleven, 186 pages, with hand-drawn topographic maps of the country around the house, seventeen plates in the maps’ own hand, the views as they stood, and the recipes. It follows Elias, a keeper and a storyteller, who has never quite learned how to be the one who comes in. It arrives on Thanksgiving Day, 26 November 2026. Signed pre-orders are open at the house’s own register, $79, with shipping in the United States on the house. Any bookshop can order it by ISBN 979-8-218-84471-4.
For the reader who loves a quiet novel: Still, by Design.
A literary novel set at a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, where a man who mistook motion for purpose learns to keep time with a house that seems to breathe alongside him. In print, as an ebook, and as an audiobook read by the author. Signed copies are available from the house.
For the tired one: Still Here.
Five short readings about Elias, each with its own song, for the end of a long day. They are on the podcast Avery Lane Maxwell. now, free, and on 1 November they become a book, an audiobook and an album.
For shops
If you keep a shop, an inn or a gift store and would like the books beside your register, they are available wholesale through Faire.
Whichever you choose, the idea is the same. Someone has been keeping the house for you. This is a way of saying you noticed.