← Avery Lane Maxwell Good Little Innkeeper
Galena House · Frisco, Colorado
The Advance Circle

The First Readers

“Come in before the doors open.”
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Until Good Little Innkeeper opens · October 26, 2026

Good Little Innkeeper arrives this October. The First Readers are the handful who come in early — who read the book while the doors are still shut, and who help it find its footing the day it opens to everyone.

Still, by Design. was the atmosphere. This one is the reckoning — what happens when the caretaker finally walks through the front door himself.

You’ll receive an advance copy — an early galley, still warm from the press. The only ask: read it before launch, and the week the book goes live, leave an honest word where readers will find it. Honest, not kind. A few plain three-star lines do more good than a wall of fives.

One small courtesy

Please hold your review until launch day — I’ll write to you with the date and a gentle nudge when it’s time. And when you post, simply note that you read an advance copy. That’s the whole of it.

The book
Good Little Innkeeper
The copy
Advance galley · ebook
The circle
Forty first readers
Ask for a seat

Join The First Readers

Forty seats, and I read every note. Tell me where to send the book — and, if you like, a line about you.

An advance circle of Galena House. Seats are limited; if the forty are full, you’ll be first on the small waitlist. Your address stays with the house — never shared, and a way out of every letter.

Your name is in.

I read each note myself. If there’s a seat, you’ll hear from me with the book and the plan — and if the forty are full, you’re first in line. Thank you for wanting to come in early.

Avery Lane Maxwell
Found, not marketed.
Galena House · Est. MMXXIII
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