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Voices for the Land ~ We publish stories that connect you with landscape, wild places, and awe.

09/18/2026

From Icelandic mares and Irish wolfhounds to elephants, leopards, hyenas, and a desert-adapted lioness named Charlie, Pam Houston has learned life’s most important lessons from animals. How to play. How to rest. How to love. How to die. How to be present with the dying. How to be present with the living and with the Earth. How to find joy in the least likely places. How to find joy, literally, everywhere. With playful sincerity, Houston finds power and promise in the teachings of our fellow creatures and reminds us that animals are here for us, every day and everywhere.

ANIMALS TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING publishes on October 13. Have you preordered your copy or made plans to attend one of Pam's tour events? It's about to be a season of tremendous Horse Girl Energy™ 🐴

https://www.torreyhouse.org/product-page/animals-taught-me-everything

09/17/2026

STITCHED by Eli McCann debuted last night on the New York Times Best Sellers list at #5!!! WE CAN'T STOP SCREAMING AND SMILING. It's been a wild ride, and this is only the beginning. ✨🪡🧵♥️🥂

09/15/2026

From the moment PLASTIC SHAMAN came across our radar, everyone at Torrey House Press understood that this is a book that MATTERS. Annette McGivney took a gripping, tragic story and turned it into a book about America itself—but she also found a way to turn this uncompromising exposé about exploitation on its head. PLASTIC SHAMAN not only invites readers to look inside themselves, McGivney takes them by the hand and show what vulnerability, introspection, compassion can unlock when we are brave enough to pursue it.

“A searing look at America's insatiable and conflicting appetites for healing and wealth. Plastic Shaman spans three genres—true crime, history and narrative nonfiction—seamlessly flowing together to tell the story of a nation that created its own spiritual void.”
—NATIVE NEWS ONLINE

“In this chilling true crime tragedy, journalist Annette McGivney convincingly illuminate how otherwise reasonable people might pay hefty prices—including their lives—to get well.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“A fascinating, deeply personal investigation.”
—JON KRAKAUER, Under the Banner of Heaven

PLASTIC SHAMAN is out now...in trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, and available on audiobook, too!

09/01/2026

Happy book birthday to THIS HAUNTED LAND! 👻 It’s been an honor for all of us here at Torrey House Press to work with Betsy Gaines Quammen to bring this terrific and terrifying book to the page—and now the time has come for readers to fall in love with it, too.

Gaines Quammen set out to write a book that was gripping and illuminating, and she accomplished that and then some. She delivers exactly what readers think they want in a book about ghost stories, and then takes us into hauntings we didn’t see coming and leaves us grateful for the relationships in our own lives. We are so grateful that Betsy is part of the Torrey House family.

Order your copy anywhere books are sold, and raise a spooky glass to this super-fantastic book 🥂🦇👻🕸️

08/27/2026

TONIGHT! We're thrilled to announce the Utah Poet Laureate, Lisa Bickmore, will join us for the LAKE EFFECT panel discussion at Our Lady of the Snows in Alta, Utah. Doors open at 6, event begins at 6:30pm. It's not too late to RSVP.

FREE TICKETS: https://altacommunity.org/events/2026/great-salt-lake-panel

Presented by ACE, Torrey House Press, Grow the Flow, Save Our Canyons, and Friends of Alta, LAKE EFFECT is a call to understand the connection between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains and how we can defend the greatest snow on earth. Featuring Ayja Bounous and Lisa Bickmore, contributors to the anthology The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake; Jake Dreyfous, managing director of Grow the Flow; and Jack Stauss, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons; and moderated by Torrey House Press Executive Director Kirsten Johanna Allen, LAKE EFFECT invites a community discussion on how to maintain a legacy of winter for future generations.

08/18/2026

Last chance to preorder! A spiritual quest turns into a fatal disaster in this gripping true crime investigation. Annette McGivney's PLASTIC SHAMAN publishes one month from today—September 15. Get your copy through our online shop or from your favorite local bookseller (or request it from your library!)

Hardcover: https://www.torreyhouse.org/product-page/plastic-shaman
Paperback: https://www.torreyhouse.org/product-page/plastic-shaman-paperback

"A fascinating, deeply personal investigation."
—JON KRAKAUER, NYT bestselling author of Under the Banner of Heaven

In October 2009, more than fifty people attended a $10,000-per-person wellness retreat led by a celebrity self-help guru. For these enlightenment seekers, their time in Sedona, Arizona, culminated in a fake Native American sweat lodge ceremony. Three of them would not make it out alive.

This tragedy exposes the dangerous truth about the booming two-trillion-dollar wellness sector, where promises of spiritual awakening and financial success often mask shocking practices underpinned by cultural appropriation and the commodification of nature. Journalist Annette McGivney’s investigation of the wellness industry lays bare the manipulation and greed that allow charismatic influencers to prey on vulnerable people in search of happiness and healing—no matter the cost.

08/14/2026

We love when reviewers just TOTALLY GET our books. Thank you to Library Journal for this excellent starred review and summary of THIS HAUNTED LAND: Reckoning with Ghosts and the Stories that Shape America by Betsy Gaines Quammen. We're so excited for September 1! Spooky Season starts now. 👻 Preorder: https://www.torreyhouse.org/product-page/this-haunted-land

08/11/2026

Ok but actually he is fired from hand signing any more books from our online shop, so DON'T PREORDER THROUGH US (at this point we are worried his arm is going to fall off and don't want to be responsible). If you preorder from The King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City, they are also offering their preordered books signed by the author, and I think we are okay with his arm falling off there. OR, preorder your copy from any of your favorite indie booksellers hosting Eli on tour and bring it to their event to have Eli sign it in person!

Preorders are super important, and if you order from an independent bookseller, each bookshop reports their sales and those can all add up to get this book on the New York Times Best Sellers list. So yeah, that's on our agenda. 🫡 ONE MONTH TO GO!!!!! 🧵🪡

08/06/2026

Join us for LAKE EFFECT, a panel discussion on the relationship between the Great Salt Lake and snowpack in the Wasatch Mountains. Thursday, August 27th, at Our Lady of the Snows in Alta, Utah. Doors open at 6 PM and event starts at 6:30 PM. This event is free, but sign-up is required (we need to know how many chairs to set up!).

Sign up: https://altacommunity.org/events/2026/great-salt-lake-panel

Presented by ACE, Torrey House Press, Grow the Flow, Save Our Canyons, and Friends of Alta, LAKE EFFECT is a call to understand the connection between the Great Salt Lake and the Wasatch Mountains and how we can defend the greatest snow on earth. Featuring Ayja Bounous and Teri Harman, writers and contributors to the anthology The Once and Future Lake: Stories for Great Salt Lake; Jake Dreyfous, managing director of Grow the Flow; and Jack Stauss, Executive Director of Save Our Canyons; and moderated by Torrey House Press Executive Director Kirsten Johanna Allen, LAKE EFFECT invites a community discussion on how to maintain a legacy of winter for future generations.

08/05/2026

Breaking news! VOICES FOR THE WEST Writing Workshops will take place Feb 14-16, 2027, in Springdale, Utah—just across the river from Zion National Park. Join us in the heart of redrock country for an inspiring, unforgettable time!

Study fiction with Pam Houston, author of Cowboys Are My Weakness and many other books, nonfiction with award-winning authors Deborah Jackson Taffa and Amy Irvine, or poetry with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets. The stunning redrock scenery of Springdale, Utah, provides inspiration for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction writers—writers of all levels are welcome. Generate new work, take risks, and learn from experienced instructors and fellow writers in a supportive and intimate space at the doorstep of Zion National Park. Plus, each attendee will gain insider knowledge into the publishing world with Torrey House Press Publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen and Editor Will Neville-Rehbehn.

Each workshop will have a maximum of 15 attendees. A limited number of scholarships will be awarded to attendees on the basis of financial need. Early bird pricing is $700 through September 15...

Learn more and apply at www.torreyhouse.org/voices-for-the-west-workshops

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