Jencey's Writer's Corner

  Colleen Oakley likes to pick interesting topics to write about in her book The Invisible Husband of Frick Island.  The main character is having a hard time moving forward with her life after the death of her husband.  What could go wrong?  Synopsis:  “Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island—a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay—is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her darling husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders Caldwell’s career is not going well. A young ambitious journalist, he’d rather hoped he’d be a national aw...

What if you were born with an allergy that would not allow you to touch another human being?   And they could not touch you? How would you survive?   How could you participate within society?   In Colleen Oakley’s novel Close Enough to Touch her main character Jubilee Jenkins lives with these issues.   Can one truly understand this journey? Facebook             Twitter                   Instagram “Jubilee Jenkins has a rare condition: She's allergic to human touch. After a nearly fatal accident, she became reclusive, living in the confines of her home for nine years. But after her mother dies, Jubilee is forced to face the world - and the people in it - that she's been hiding from. Jubilee finds safe haven at her local library, where she gets a job. It's there she meets Eric Keegan, a divorced man who recently moved to town with his brilliant, troubled adopted son. Eric is struggl...