The Skerries

By J. Howard Hall

YA Fiction
Cover by Kate Brennan Hall

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Howard Hall
• Release date: Dec 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9780983587941

J. Howard Hall

J. Howard Hall has a day job, marketing industrial process equipment. He writes in the comfort of his garage-sale La-Z-Boy during the pre-dawn hours before life gets in the way. His repertoire ranges from limericks to technical articles, which he has published in a variety of trade journals, but this is his first novel. He lives in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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