Welcome to my literary workshop.
This is where the wind lingers, the stories stretch out, and experience meets craft.
Here you'll find long-form prose, screenplays, reflective travel writing, and journal projects written under my real name—ranging from the deeply personal to the formally inventive.
Some are ready. Others are in motion.
This space is still unfolding.
Jerry R. Steele Jr. continues to build out project pages, each offering excerpts, context, or a glimpse behind the scenes. Some are already mapped. Others are still taking shape.
Weathervanes of Helsingør
A literary mosaic where wind moves between lives.
This genre-bending work blends myth, memory, stream-of-consciousness, and Danish folklore, with the Wind as a drifting narrator. Neither traditional novel nor short story collection, it unfolds as a layered sequence of interconnected tales. Helsingør becomes both a setting and a mirror.
A deeply personal and ever-evolving creation, Weathervanes is the defining project of my life as a writer.
The book is filled with visitations, reawakenings, and reimaginings of characters drawn from literature, myth, drama, and rock ’n’ roll.
The Road to L.A. (novel)
Literary Coming-of-Age Fiction
A raw, restless journey through late-1980s California—both figuratively and literally—where faith, failure, first love, and small-time smuggling road trips push one young man toward the blurry edge of adulthood.
Feature Filmscripts
Three original screenplays exploring identity, transformation, and the shifting edge between reality and what we choose to believe.
Each one walks a different path—gritty, absurd, or quietly miraculous—toward the moment when everything changes.
These scripts weren’t a result of film school—they're what led me there.
The Road to L.A.
An adaptation of my own novel, this screenplay follows a troubled college student haunted by guilt and barely holding it together, who goes on the run—with a girl running from something darker than he knows, a trunk that gets heavier by the mile, and a growing sense he may never make it back.
Fat Chancy, Runner Man
After being publicly challenged to run a marathon, a popular and sharp-witted sports reporter trains with stubborn flair—but when the weight he loses starts weakening him, and death threats start rolling in, he’s forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about strength, health, and staying alive.
Shades of Grace
In the stillness of a Swedish summer, old wounds resurface and generations collide—until one moment of grace reframes everything left unsaid.
From Shades of Grace
Travel Journals
Real journeys, shaped into story.
Includes Land of the Midnite Sun (set along Sweden’s northern Kungsleden trail) and other place-rooted reflections. Blending narrative and observation, these pieces explore what lingers after the footsteps fade.