Yvonne Perry: Vickie Decoster on Writing Podcast October 5, 2007!

Friday, October 05, 2007

Vickie Decoster on Writing Podcast October 5, 2007!

TGI Friday! I have uploaded a new show to my podcast this week!

Vicky Decoster joins Yvonne Perry today on Writers in the Sky Podcast to discuss her

latest book, "Husbands, Hot Flashes, and All That Hullabaloo!"

Vicky DeCoster, award-winning humor writer and author of The Wacky World of Womanhood, will have you laughing out loud at the realities of life as a middle-aged woman as she takes you on a hilarious hormonal journey. Any woman tackling the second act of her life will relate to DeCoster’s humorous personal essays as she makes fun of matrimony malfunctions, female fervor, corporate craziness, parenting pandemonium, and aging anatomies. This new-age Erma Bombeck entertains readers with her comical anecdotes on dieting with her husband, the roller coaster of emotions that accompany trying on swimming suits in your forties and beyond, and the unwelcome neuroses that often occur during parenthood. Husbands, Hot Flashes, and All That Hullabaloo! will leave you with the comforting secret that life is too funny to take seriously!

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Vicky DeCoster first learned to laugh at herself in second grade when she donned her first pair of cat eyeglasses and hasn’t stopped since. Her 25 years of experience includes writing humorous essays and articles for Atlanta Singles, Metro Parents, Omaha Magazine, Her, Omaha World-Herald, www.absolutewrite.com, Single Life, and www.boomerwomenspeak.com. She is the author of The Wacky World of Womanhood: Essays on Girlhood, Dating, Motherhood, and the Loss of Matching Underwear (iUniverse, 2003) as well as Husbands, Hot Flashes, and All That Hullabaloo! (iUniverse, 2006). Her essay, “How to Just Say No to a Date” was featured on a morning radio show and won the award “Best Creative Story” from Omaha Magazine. She has written humor columns for Her magazine in Omaha, Nebraska, and Still Moments magazine based in Nova Scotia.

In 2005, DeCoster won the "Boomer Women Speak" July/August essay contest; second place in the national humor writing contest "Make Me Laugh"; and in 2005 and 2006, respectively, she won "Honorable Mention" and “Finalist” awards in the HumorPress.com national humor writing contests.

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Her inspirational essays have been published in the Don’t Sweat Stories with a foreword by Richard Carlson, Ph.D. (author of Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff), the book Real Stories of Spirit Communication by Angela Hoy (Booklocker-2004), the book FamilyFun - My Great Idea (Disney Editions), and Christian Single magazine. In August 2007, her essay “Best or Better” will appear in the new book Chicken Soup for the Soul in Menopause.

She is a featured writer in the book Burning the Midnight Oil: How We Survive as Writing Parents by Dawn Colclasure (2004) and in Book Marketing from A-Z and Talk Radio for Authors both by Francine Silverman (2005 and 2006, respectively). DeCoster is also listed as a humor writing expert on http://www.bookpromotionnewsletter.com/ where she fields questions from writers around the country.

Vicky DeCoster lives in Papillion, Nebraska with her husband and two children. In her spare time, she enjoys backpacking, hiking, running, and of course, laughing at herself.

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Next Friday I will upload my interview with Irene Watson.

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Light Language Emerging ~ Activating Ascension Codes & Integrating Body, Soul, and Spirit

Light is the language of the creator. When spoken verbally, light language can create, bring a message, blessing, or healing as a response to a request a soul has made. Old thoughts, beliefs, and behavior patterns are housed in the subconscious and our DNA. Our DNA also holds light codes of the original Adam (perfect divine human). When activated, these codes can override and reprogram old beliefs and patterns that keep the body, mind, and emotions sick and in disrepair. Learn how light language can help activate these codes.

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As the Earth is coming into alignment with the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, we are being affected by strong cosmic energy that is compelling us to change our way of thinking and living. Shifting into Purer Consciousness ~ Integrating Spiritual Transformation with the Human Experience is designed to help people personally manage the symptoms of the current shift in consciousness we are all experiencing as we approach the end of the Piscean Age and enter the Age of Aquarius.

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Walk-ins Among Us ~ Open Your Personal Portal to Cosmic Awareness

If you have had a strange spiritual experience, you will find comfort and information to help make sense of it in this eye-opening book, written by a walk-in to help others understand the soul exchange process and how to integrate higher vibrations that clear energy imprints that are not aligned with love, light, and joy.

Learn how to stay centered and actively involved in your personal ascension process as you discover your mission, purpose, and role on Earth.

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Whose Stuff Is This? ~ Finding Freedom from the Thoughts, Feelings, and Energy of Those Around You

Are you super sensitive to the negativity around you? Are your coworkers like psychic vampires who leech off your energy? Do you have mysterious illnesses, aches, and pains? Are you depressed or angry for no good reason? Do some friends and family members make you feel drained?
You may be an empath picking up on the thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and even the illnesses of others. Whose Stuff Is This? is a guidebook for empathic people who have been unknowingly carrying energetic burdens that belong to someone else.

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More Than Meets The Eye ~ True Stories About Death, Dying, and Afterlife

More Than Meets the Eye: True Stories about Death, Dying and Afterlife is a book that address topics that many people are not comfortable talking about such as suicide, the near-death experience, end of life decisions, and euthanasia. The book is designed to help people release their fear of death, learn to communicate with those on the other side, and to comfort someone who is grieving the loss of a loved one.

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The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children

Perry has authored twelve children’s stories known as The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children. These stories build self-esteem and empower young ones to follow their inner guidance and overcome fear. Inspired by her grandson, these stories offer valuable messages that support the whole child—body, soul and spirit—and teach environmental responsibility.

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Stockpiled Poetry ~ Introspective Thoughts About Life, God, and Other Stuff That Can’t Be Explained!

Stockpiled Poetry is a bunch of plain style poems LavendarRose threw into the file drawer awaiting someone to appreciate them. If you like them, their day has come.

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Yvonne's humorous book, Email Episodes ~ A Hilariously Honest Look at Life, is about a woman experiencing an identity crisis as she faces divorce and approaches mid-life with teenagers who are raising reptiles in the basement.

A great book of short entertaining stories, which also shares some of life's triumphs and troubles shared by all mothers of teenagers. Those going through divorce, leaving organized religion, or learning to live authentically will appreciate the candid humor.

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Oh, Come, Angel Band ~ The Living Genealogy of the Charlton Bates Family

Authors: Jenny Bates Meadows-Sauls and Yvonne Perry

The genealogy of the Bates family of Cherokee County, Georgia is traced back to Charlton Bates and Nancy Kelly (O'Kelly) Bates, who are first mentioned living in South Carolina in 1812. Through DNA testing, we know that our family has a ancestor blood-related to James Shockley Bates.

The descending lineage mentioned in this book are David Ward and Nancy Martin, Thomas F. Bates and Sarah Elizabeth Ward, Savannah Bates and Alexander Newton Smith, and Lemuel Harris Bates and Lillian Margaret Smith.

Many of the children and extended family members of these family heads are mentioned in this book, and more than 200 photos document the journey.

Of broader interest, the book contains some history of the Cherokee and Hall Counties of Georgia as remembered by the Bates family who lived in the area.

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