Lisa Loomis Books

New jacket

2013-05-17T07:10:00.000-07:00

Along with being newly edited Boy in a Band is getting a new look.

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Mama's boy?

2013-05-16T08:03:00.001-07:00

“So I get there, right, and he picks me up from the airport. He tells me we are going to go to his mom’s for dinner,” Jillian said sarcastically in her husky voice. “I’m thinking, right dude I fly in to see you and the first thing you want to do is take me to your mother’s, not like to bed or anything but to his mom’s.”

Jillian chuckled, recalling.

“I figure whatever, go with the program, right? So we go to his mom’s. Well she’s this wealthy woman who lives in a massive house with his sister who is divorced and living back at home. I can tell right away she doesn’t like me nor, it appears, does the sister. I feel uncomfortable but he is trying hard to make me feel welcome. Then, throughout dinner, I notice the two of them constantly tell him what to do, what to eat, how much, how much wine, where we are going to sit after dinner, when he can leave. By the time we can go, I’m a little freaked out.”

“So is he a total mama’s boy?” Linda asked.

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Frogs

2013-05-15T06:52:00.002-07:00

The rocks were a bit slippery, so I cautiously followed the boys. There were some patches of cattails, and I noticed a few pollywogs. I immediately started looking for frogs. I was sort of lagging behind, thinking about my own creek and the games we played, while the boys splashed up ahead. It didn’t take me long to find a little frog, and I picked it up.

“Hey, look what I found,” I yelled at them.

Mathew and Bobby turned around and came back.

“Cool, look at that,” Mathew said, reaching to touch the frog that I had cupped in my hand.

“You like frogs?” Mathew asked, surprised.

He was gentle when he stroked the little guy and his fingers couldn’t help but touch my hand in doing so.

“Yeah, we have a creek at the end of our street, and they're all over the place, even bullfrogs.”

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Last June

2013-05-12T08:21:00.000-07:00

My two wonderful kids made me the best cards...so lucky!

Human connection

2013-05-10T07:19:00.000-07:00

I lay awake in his arms thinking about our evening. When I volunteered to cook it was to reciprocate for the nice things he’d done for me. I hadn’t anticipated this is how the evening would end. We’d eased into the whole thing, so comfortably that it shocked me. It was like we both were in need of the human connection for different reasons, but it worked.

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Nervous?

2013-05-09T09:21:00.000-07:00

“You nervous?” he asked opening the car door for me.

“I am,” I answered getting in.

Who was this girl? I suddenly wasn’t sure why I said yes. “Remember who you are” mom said. Yes, remember.

“New car,” I stated.

“Not new, but new to me. Look cassette deck no 8-track.”

“Coming up in the world,” I joked.

“What do you want to hear?” he said leaning across me to the glove box. “I’ve got some John Denver, Barry Manilow."

“You do not, you liar,” I teased back.

Be better

2013-05-08T06:59:00.000-07:00

This writing thing is hard work. My days fly by and I feel like I should be getting so much more done. No writers block, just a lot to be done. Jumping backwards a bit while editing continues...gotta love that it can always be better.

Sad eyes

2013-05-07T07:56:00.000-07:00

“I think you made him up,” Gayle said, referring to Mathew.

“Shut up, you know I haven’t.”

“How? I’ve yet to meet him. You have no picture of him. Maybe he’s your imaginary secret friend,” she said.

She was laying in the grass next to me in my backyard. I knew she was teasing. We were drawing pictures in the clouds. We lay flat on our backs and looked into the sky.

“It looks like a tree. See the branches there, and the trunk?” I said, pointing to the big puffy cloud above us.

“I see a clown with sad eyes?”

“Not in the tree?”

“No there," she pointed. "See the face and bozo like hair. The sad eyes are there.”

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Filler

2013-05-06T06:23:00.000-07:00

As she did so Linda could tell she was looking at herself in the mirror. Linda looked up at Stella and noticed what looked like a bruise on her upper lip.

“What’s that above your lip?”

Stella rapidly raised her fingers to her lip and ran them across it.

“Can you see it?” Stella asked concerned.

“Is it a bruise?”

“A tiny one. I had filler done and it bruised on this one side. Does it look bad?”

Stella was always looking for ways and treatments to defy aging. Linda thought the filler made her lips look too puffy.

“Not too bad,” Linda lied. “Where you surprised to see Greg at Jillian’s?”

“Shh,” Stella whispered as she scanned to see who was close by. “I didn’t think he would actually show up. What do you think he told the girlfriend?”

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Why?

2013-05-02T06:11:00.000-07:00

It completely threw me off guard. He kissed me softly, hesitantly. Morgan no, I said to myself. Tell him fuck no. He had followed the rules since I set them. I was forced to follow them.

“Crossover,” I whispered. “Mathew, damn you...”

He kissed me again before I could get anything else out. I kissed him back. I could taste the beer and the marijuana. I didn’t want to kiss him and I wanted to kiss him. Stop. I wanted him to stop, and not to stop. Why, why, why, kept flashing in my head. No mixed messages, we'd agreed. His tongue was deep in my mouth and his hands were roaming over my body. When he stopped kissing me my eyes had adjusted to the darkness. I could make out his face, he could read my confusion. He put his finger to my lips.

“Kid, go with me,” he whispered.

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I shower

2013-05-01T09:46:00.000-07:00

“I’m glad. I was afraid you might get caught. John may not be an angel, but I pretty much think he expects you to be,” Nicky said as she took a bite of her lunch. “Besides you wouldn’t give up the bennies, there are too many.”

“You’re right,” Ali said.

“I don’t know how people cheat. I really don’t. I guess I’m old fashioned. I like to think people fall in love and stay in love, and don’t want other people,” Nicky said. “How do you go have crazy high school sex with architect guy, and then crawl in bed with John like nothing happened?”

“I shower,” Ali said, amused.

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Go slow

2013-04-30T07:58:00.000-07:00

I went to fill up my cup before leaving the keg. I picked up the nozzle and squeezed the black lever and watched the beer come out fast and foamy.

“That’s what happens when you squeeze too hard. You have to go slow,” Mathew said as he took the nozzle out of my hand, extending his hand for my cup.

He was talking about more than the beer tap and he knew I knew it.

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Stupid girl

2013-04-29T09:28:00.000-07:00

I was shaking as I drove away. I watched him in my rear view mirror standing at the curb, a shadow against the dark night. He hadn’t moved when I turned the corner. It wasn’t what I expected. Not my feelings to reveal themselves like that, or his sense of fear in hearing them. I wanted to cry and the tears wouldn’t even come. What was I thinking? That he would be happy about my feelings? He would feel the same? Oh my god, you stupid girl, resounded in my head. I managed to get all the way home before I opened my car door and threw up in my carport.

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W's sound like V

2013-04-19T04:55:00.000-07:00

Roni noticed that she had very long, extravagantly painted nails, obviously applied in a salon, and lots of gold rings on her fingers.

“Look at your nails,” Roni said, “they’re beautiful.”

The woman smiled obviously proud of them. Roni stirred the frozen drink with the straw, mixing in the tequila, and took a sip.

“It tastes good too,” Roni said.

The couple from outside by the pool came to the bar and asked for their tab. They paid in cash and left. Roni was the only patron in the place now.

“Vere ya come from?” the bartender asked.

Roni had noticed many of the Bahamians made their W’s sound like a V.

“I’m staying in a house by the Bay Club,” Roni answered.

“I know dat. I mean, where ya live?”

“Oh, I live in New York City, I just got in yesterday." Roni said as she wrinkled her forehead in confusion. "Wait, how would you know where I’m staying?”

“Erryone know. Gloria tell us a white lady rentin' da doctor's house fo' a lon' stay. Ya not news ta us, gal,” she said, laughing heartily.

Roni smiled. Her laugh was one of those that came from deep down and made her whole body shake.

“I'm Lashanda. Wha' ya name?” she asked.

Excerpt from A Horse Named Joe (a Novel)--not released yet

Set on the small island of Green Turtle Cay in the Bahama's a former investment banker at Lehman Brothers tries to find herself.

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NA

2013-04-18T06:44:00.000-07:00

Great article in USA Today on Tuesday about the up and coming New Adult category in novels. A category that falls between YA (young adult) and Adult. It really excites me as this is were Boy in a Band and Casanova Cowboy actually fit! I have requested Amazon to add these to their Kindle self publishing, I sure hope they will. Very excited, as I continue to edit and write.

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New Adult

2013-04-17T06:36:00.001-07:00

He mixed it up but his favorite was the rock and roll stuff. Some of it I recognized from the radio, some I didn’t. He would sing now and then, but mostly he played. His fingers moved so knowingly over the strings. As he played his hair would fall forward over his face and he would flow with the music. While he was so wrapped up in his music, I could observe him closely. I watched his expression change with the chords and the song. God damn, he was good looking. Somehow he seemed older than me, so comfortable with himself. He interrupted my thoughts again when he set the guitar down. I hadn’t even heard the music stop. I was looking at his lips and quickly shifted my focus to his eyes.

“There’s that look again,” he said.

“What look?” I asked.

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Final the category is out there

Season over

2013-04-16T06:50:00.000-07:00

Children's picture book about skiing and snowboarding

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Although the season is over many out there still have young ones who will need the courage next season.

Spill it

2013-04-15T06:48:00.000-07:00

“Spill it,” Ryan said.

I could tell he was tired of my pensive sadness.

“I don’t want to,” I said.

“Why?” he asked.

“Cause it’s over. It was over before, but now it’s really over,” I said.

“If you love him, why is it over?” he asked.

I watched the sun sink lower in the sky throwing a bright line of light across the ocean at us. I didn’t answer him.

“Come on Morgan, tell me,” he said. “I’m a good listener.”

I looked at him trying to conjure up a decent answer.

“Just because you love someone doesn’t always make it right, make it work."

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Sewing

2013-04-14T11:16:00.000-07:00

Keri and I both hated sewing. We sat right next to each other so she talked to me. She was one of the more popular girls at school. I didn’t rate there. She was shorter than me but she had thick straight blonde hair that fell to her waist and almond shaped green eyes. She had a cute figure and did her best to flaunt it. The boys all thought she was hot and she knew it. She was a total flirt. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I wanted to trade places with her, but I sure wished I could get some of the attention she got.

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Tingle

2013-04-13T08:44:00.000-07:00

Linda moaned softly as he slid one hand down and parted her legs sticking two fingers into her. She spread her legs more and he pushed his fingers in and out of her. She could feel the tingle between her legs, and the wetness. She wanted him inside her. She tried to pull Jake onto her, but he wasn’t finished with pleasuring her.

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Intensity of old

2013-04-12T08:00:00.000-07:00

When we made love it was with the intensity of old. He was all I could see. The guilt feelings I thought I should feel never surfaced. We spent the next few days and nights together, completely immersed in each other. It made me sad to have to leave him, and I dreaded going home. As I lay in Mathew’s arms I tried to compare my love for him to my love for Max and realized there was none, they were completely different.

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Ah, yeah!

2013-04-11T07:02:00.000-07:00

He looked me in the eye and gave me a small smile. His expression sent a shiver through me, and it was hard to pull my eyes from his. I had no idea if he wanted to sit there or didn’t want Bobby sitting next to me. I could feel the heat rush up into my chest, and my heart beat faster. Yeah, Gayle, I said to myself, I want to kiss him.

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Getting better...

At the movies

2013-04-10T07:31:00.000-07:00

I get up and blog almost every day--it's sort of like shouting through a tunnel because I'm not sure I can be heard. Last night we watched a newer movie, a regurgitation of a plot line that has been going on for years...years...years. It was film, in my opinion, completely wasted. The plot was nil and the only thing, only thing, going for it was a ton of fighting, blowing up, and car/train chases (which I don't like). I have given up on regular TV and about to give up on movies. Hollywood has become like our government, it's all about the money and not about the real thing anymore.

Nick-name

2013-04-09T06:45:00.000-07:00

Rachel hung up feeling proud of herself, a step in the right direction. She inspected herself in the mirror again and wondered if the jewelry she’d put on was too much. Damn Ali for always having just the right amount. She chuckled to herself, Gem Rats, she thought it was a very cleaver nick-name for the girls’.

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If only you knew

2013-04-08T07:10:00.000-07:00

I closed my eyes. I thought about his kiss, his touch. “You want some of this?” he'd asked. Yes, I do I imagined myself saying as I started unbuttoning his pants.

“Ohhhh,” I shouted arching my back as cold ocean water was splashed across me.

I flipped over to find Mathew holding an empty plastic bucket, the kind kids get with the shovel, at the drug store. I’d been daydreaming and looked from his hands to his face.

“Mathew!”

“You looked like you needed some cooling off,” he laughed.

If you only knew, what I'd been thinking, nevertheless he’d totally startled me.

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Re-editing, after my new editor finished--always so fun going back, seeing it differently.