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YOU’RE INVITED: Apply for Book Launch Team Membership

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Be on the team that launches—ALWAYS AN ADVOCATE: Champions of Change for People with Dwarfism and Disabilities—a book documenting radical changes in organization, respect, and equal access for thousands of people with dwarfism and disabilities.

Find out  (1) what it takes to lead a charity that changes lives; (2) how laws were passed to stop a morally bankrupt practice; and (3) who knocked down barriers to equal access in buildings and facilities, public transit, schools, and so many more?

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As a book launch team member, share the answers found in the third book of my trilogy and show how positive changes are possible in our chaotic world.

Apply now and through April 29, the day wrecking cranes began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate in 1990. Be active in the disability movement that continues to break down environmental, attitudinal and system barriers.

Consider the benefits of being a team member:

  • Receive a complimentary autographed copy of Always An Advocate.
  • Exclusive, private, and direct communication with me as the Author and other team members.
  • FUN! Contests with prizes reserved for book launch team members!

Never been on a book launch team before? No worries. If you agree to do the following, you can do it:

  • Subscribe to my weekly blog (if not already a subscriber).
  • Accept Angela’s invitation to join the book launch team’s secret FaceBook group.
  • Agree to visit the team’s group at least once a week to support book marketing.
  • Read a pdf copy of the book prior to the release date. 
  • Post a favorable book review on amazon.com when requested by Angela at the beginning of the book launch month. (If you can’t recommend it to others, no hard feelings, but please agree not to post a negative review.)
  • Share book news on your social media platforms; consider posting a selfie reading the book.
  •  Share your enthusiasm for the book with your LPA chapter, district and any disability organizations that you belong to.

Other book launch team contributions include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Recommend Always An Advocate to family, friends, coworkers and anyone else who will listen.
  • Post a favorable online book review on retail outlets where books are sold, such as Barnes and Noble and Books A Million.
  • Post a favorable book review on Goodreads.
  • If you have a blog, post a book review or interview with Angela.
  • Ask your local library to order copies of Always An Advocate.
  • Gift a copy to family and friends.
  • If you belong to a book club, suggest they read Always An Advocate.
  • Write and submit a book review for your local paper.
  • Anything else the team recommends.

To apply for membership on this book launch team, please text me at 772-834-3951 or private message me on FaceBook with your email address and I’ll send you the link to my website where you’ll find the simple, one page application form. Remember to submit your application on or before April 29th.

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“Pass Me Your Shoes” Book Launches in Dwarfism Awareness Month (DAM)

Pass Me Your Shoes

Thirty-two years have passed since I published Dwarfs Don’t Live in Doll Houses covering my years as a single person.  Now the sequel—PASS ME YOUR SHOES: A Couple with Dwarfism Navigates Life’s Detours with Love and Faith—has released during DAM in October 2020.

Find out what happens when our marriage is complicated by dwarfism, different cultures and careers, dishonesty, discord, and discrimination. No-one skates through life without suffering some kind of hardship— abuse, betrayal, cancer, divorce, environmental, financial, grief, health, and so it goes through the alphabet.

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As a result, people reading this book whether or not they have dwarfism, another disability, or know someone with a disabling condition will—

—relate our challenges to their own.

—experience many emotions, including: (1) joy and laughter in our love story and humorous adventures, (2) fury and frustration for frequent accounts of discrimination; and (3) empathy for relationship struggles and surgeries.

—be encouraged to persevere in tough circumstances.

—aspire to the grit and tenacity we found to succeed in life and love.

—be warned that poor decisions can lead to lasting and painful consequences.

—learn how to live every day with hope and confidence in God’s strength, love, and mercy in all circumstances.

For several years we moved from state to state looking for job stability and a place to put down roots. Our common height of three-feet-four-inches was not a common interest that could hold the marriage together. Yet, through it all, God provided new opportunities, kept us together, and close to loving family and friends.

Whether our hardships are the same or different, all can respond to the message of hope and love we offer in Pass Me Your Shoes. For us, the key was in looking to the LORD God as our strength, rock, deliverer, refuge, support and salvation. You cleared the ground under me so my footing was firm. ∞ Psalm 18:36 (the Message).

Need more persuasion that this book is a good read? Here’s a sampling of endorsements: 

  • “This book provides a thoughtful contribution to the literature of dwarfism.” Carol Wintercorn, Retired Librarian
  • “I pray that . . . anyone who is daunted by a tough circumstance will find inspiration to pursue their dream.” Lee Fielder, former Pastor of Tropical Farms Baptist Church, Stuart, Florida
  • “With great frankness, Angela relates the challenges and triumphs she has faced in marriage, family, health and career. Along the way, we learn profound lessons from her great humor, strong faith and abiding love.” Diane Tomasik, Retired Journalist and Communications Professional

Please also read the five star customer reviews at Amazon.com and order your copy of Pass Me Your Shoes during DAM. The book is also available at

Barnes and Noble, https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pass-me-your-shoes-angela-muir-van-etten/1137737056?ean=9780998464862 and

Books a Million, https://www.booksamillion.com/p/Pass-Your-Shoes/Angela-Muir-Van-Etten/9780998464862?id=7948378273836

For information “About the Author” go to my website at https://angelamuirvanetten.com/about/

Enter Contest to Win
(open from October 5 to November 14 midnight)

Post, tag me, and share on social media a selfie holding or reading your copy of Pass Me Your Shoes. The first 100 people to also email a copy of your selfie to angela@angelamuirvanetten.com will receive a free Dwarfism Awareness Month wrist band and an autographed bookplate to paste in your book.