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Michael's Story

My eighth novel, Michael's Story, is complete, and I am pleased with the result.
The publication date is April 27th 2026, in paperback and as an audiobook, and it will be available
most everywhere. At 572 pages it is my longest novel, and it took that many pages to tell his story.



Michael's Story takes place over most of his life. During this story, you will follow his life through his eyes.
Michael's parents abandon him at birth, and he is raised in seven different foster homes by the age of five.
He experiences abuse that no child should ever experience. Reunited with his father and stepmother at five years old,
Michael has no idea that what he learned he shouldn't have learned. His father and stepmother never ask him about his past.
Without learning love and care he is often the only human he understands, and his innate optimism keeps him happy.
This begins Michael's Story; does he learn to live a life free of abuse, and does he prevail?

The Journal Writer

My seventh novel, The Journal Writer, is published, and I am pleased with the result.
It is also published as an audiobook, and it is available most everywhere.

A note from Peter Skeels- I had the idea of writing a novel where every chapter was a short story. But due to the disparate nature of short stories I had no idea how to do it.
Finally, after revisiting the idea for twenty-five years, I figured it out, and this is that novel.

The Journal Writer takes place over many decades of Chris's life. During that time, this journal is his account of his life.
His journal gives us a unique window into his life, with which we get to watch his successes and failures
as he tries to understand why he is the way he is and repair his broken parts. Seemingly without a solid foundation,
he nevertheless goes forward, and while he is often the only tangible thing he has, he keeps going forward.
This is the story of a man who realizes he is completely broken but decides he wants to fix himself.
Can he do it? Does he have the long-term tenacity for the job? Does he do it?


The Box

The Box, my sixth novel, is now available to buy using your favorite book store. Amazon has it, and all of the other online book stores.

Just ask for The Box by Peter Skeels.

The Box tells the story of Rupert and Lucille; their lives, loves, families, achievements, and failures. Lucille is the last child born to a family of generationally poor dirt farmers, while Rupert is the only child born to multi-billionaire parents. Rupert and Lucille's paths cross due to a confluence of seemingly random events, and, as their business relationship grows, so does their friendship, love, and respect grow for each other. The Box tells how a simple invention has the potential to transform not only their two lives, but the story tells how the invention has the potential to change the lives of thousands of people. Where does it all lead though? Does the invention lead to the good that Rupert first envisioned? Does the invention help Lucille out of her generational poverty? Does the invention help anybody? Or, is the old adage that says, "No good deed goes unpunished," really true?


Consenting Adult

My fifth novel Consenting Adult was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize!

"Your Fiction entry (Consenting Adult peter skeels)
in the 2023 Pulitzer Prize competition has been approved."
I did not win but just being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize is a dream come true!




Consenting Adult was written to accomplish the theme of what would the Commandments be if they were written today? Jonathan, the main character, sets off to write his Commandments, and his new job teaching a Creative Writing class at the local Junior College helps him get past the initial block. As he teaches the class, he introduces several themes to his young students, and eventually he introduces the theme of them rewriting the Commandments. Jonathan goes through some very emotional introspection while teaching, and he also introduces ideas to his students for their own introspection. The main character, Jonathan, stubbornly refuses to accept the normalcy of established concepts and ideas. Jonathan also refuses to believe in, or to accept, religion. Instead, Jonathan introduces the idea that the new Commandments should come to a world needing peace and love. The new Commandments should be free and have no enforcement. They should also be good commandments to live by. Are they successful?

Novels

My collection of novels are available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Austin Macauley, elsewhere online, or at most book stores, worldwide.

I have pulled the tetralogy of Interloper, A Natural Pause, Persistent, and The Last Garden and combined them
into one novel titled Michael's Story, due out on April 27th 2026. Michael's Story will also be in audiobook format.

I will of course update book covers, publishing dates of new novels, etc., as and when I receive them.

My novels are available either online or in most bookstores, or your favorite bookstore will order them for you.

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