Come in. It's already warm

A podcast made at nine thousand feet in Frisco, Colorado, in the hour before anyone is awake.

I am Avery Lane Maxwell. I write books, and I have spent nine years keeping houses for strangers. Every episode here is an essay, read slow, scored with my own music: about building a life by hand at altitude, about the house that didn't save me, and the habit it taught me instead. Leave the room ready. Someone is coming.

And every episode ends with a recipe. An actual recipe. Mostly scones. Because an essay, like a breakfast, should leave you with something you can hold.

New episodes when they are ready. Never before.

The novel: Still, by Design., out now. The reading room: Epopteia Reader, free on the App Store. The house: averylanemaxwell.com · Frisco, Colorado.