New Book Release: Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties & Reclaiming Your Life - by Stacie Webb

 

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Breaking free from toxic family relationships isn’t easy — especially when love, guilt, obligation, and fear are deeply intertwined.

Breaking the Chain is a compassionate, empowering guide for anyone who feels trapped in painful family dynamics and is ready to choose peace, clarity, and self-trust.

This book is not about blame.

It’s about understanding patterns, honoring your experience, and learning how to protect your well-being — even when doing so feels overwhelming or late in life.

Inside, you’ll explore:

• How toxic family patterns form and how they quietly shape your choices
• Why guilt, fear, and self-doubt keep you stuck — and how to loosen their grip
• Practical ways to set boundaries without losing yourself
• Tools for navigating grief, confusion, and emotional fallout
• Healing practices to reclaim your identity, voice, and sense of safety

Written with warmth, honesty, and lived experience, Breaking the Chain offers reassurance for readers who have tried everything — therapy, self-help, silence — and still feel unsure where to begin.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Why does choosing myself feel so wrong?
• Why do I still feel responsible for their emotions?
• Is it too late to change?

This book was written for you.

You are not broken.

You are not heartless.

And you are not alone.

About the author:

Stacie Webb is the author of Breaking the Chain: Cutting Toxic Family Ties and Reclaiming Your Life, a compassionate guide for those healing from dysfunctional family dynamics. Drawing from lived experience, faith, and deep emotional insight, Webb writes to empower readers to set boundaries, reclaim their voice, and choose peace without guilt. Her work centers on emotional recovery, generational healing, and personal freedom, offering hope to those who have long felt unseen or silenced. Through honest storytelling and practical tools, she encourages others to break cycles of pain and step boldly into wholeness, resilience, and self-worth.

New Book Release: The Sounds of Unspoken Breaths - by Jenna Tulonen

 

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What if the loudest truths were the ones that we never said out loud?

In this deeply moving collection of 100 poems, poet Jenna gives voice to the quiet struggles that we carry - unspoken grief, invisible strength, the weight of feeling everything and nothing at once. Her words unravel the silence that we wear like armor, and speak gently to the soft places that we often hide.

With lyrical precision and emotional honesty, The Sound of Unspoken Breaths is for anyone who has ever felt like too much or not enough, for those navigating the in-between moments of becoming.

This is poetry for the quiet-hearted -

for the ones still standing,

even when it feels like falling.

About the author:

Jenna Tulonen (J. M. T.) is a poet with a retro soul and a deep love for rhetoric, crafting work that sits in the quiet spaces where grief, resilience, and vulnerability meet. Drawn to what lingers between words, she writes to honor the soft truths we often carry in silence. Her poems explore invisible wounds, unspoken love, and the emotional echoes tucked inside everyday moments, offering readers a sense of companionship and recognition. When she isn’t writing, Jenna can be found scrapbooking, learning new languages, or singing along to ’70s and ’80s classics. She creates with heart, honesty, and just the right amount of weird.

Book signing in Glendale during the Chocolate Affaire - by Vijaya Schartz

 

The shirt says: I write books, what's your superpower?
Glendale, February 14-15 2026 - Chocolate Affaire
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I forgot how much fun it is to do an impromptu book signing.

Glendale AZ is always sponsoring special events. One of the most popular is the CHOCOLATE AFFAIRE, a long tradition which started with the local Cerretta Candy Factory, and taking place around Valentine’s Day.

2013 - old covers tell the story. Chocolate on the table, of course.
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Before the pandemic, this event was held in Murphy Park, on the lawn around the old library, with vendors, food trucks, climbing towers, chocolate of course, live music, dancing, late night activities with glittering lights, and local romance writers signing their books for the duration.

2014 Chocolate Affaire Glendale, AZ
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As a member of a local authors group, I had been signing at this event since my first book was published, and I did it for many years. Then the pandemic changed everything. It became a small indoors event, geared for children, with none of the hoopla that attracted so many people, no night activities… and no authors signing their books.

2018 Chocolate Affaire, Glendale AZ
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This year, although it was still indoors and small, a well-known Antiques store (2 Share a unique boutique) decided to take advantage of the special event’s traffic and organize an author signing during these two days, in front of its entrance. The owner happened to be with us when we met with Jude in Arizona in late January, and she asked Dani Petrone and me to be the signing authors. We enthusiastically accepted.

2017 Chocolate Affaire - Glendale AZ
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After rushing to order the new titles, and Jude being wonderful as usual, making sure they would arrive on time, Dani and I filled our long table with our books. Only my latest books, to be sure (I have too many to display them all – It would take more than one table).

January 2026 Meeting with Jude (BWL Publishing), Dani Petrone, and John Hovey and his wife

On Saturday, we had a big draw and a little competition, as the window behind us was filled with lovely doggies for adoption (part of the 2 Share rescue program for working K9). Five were adopted that day. Yay!

Saturday, February 14, 2026, ready to go, with chocolate on the table.
The puppies have not arrived yet.
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We stood there, outside, from 10-11am to 5pm both days, talking to people about our books, selling a few, handing out postcards, bookmarks, and answering questions about where the Chocolate Affaire was happening, which was a few blocks away.

My latest book, CHI WARRIOR, was available there.
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Some friends came to visit and chat and buy my latest book. Dani and I were so excited, we totally forgot about lunch and survived the whole day on a single can of Coke. These two days were exhausting, but we were happy with the experience.

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The good news is, it looks like next year the Chocolate Affaire will be back in Murphy Park in all its splendor. Looking forward to the outdoors fun.

Happy Reading

Vijaya Schartz, award-winning author

Kick-butt Sci-fi Heroines, cats, romantic elements

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New Book Release: Saving Her Prairie - by Heidi M. Thomas

 

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Battle for the Soul of the Prairie

In this modern “David vs Goliath” story, Dede Hume is thrust into the decades-old battle for grasslands in the wide-open spaces of Montana.

When her dad is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and her parents take early retirement, Dede and her younger brother are left in charge of their ranch. She’s plunged into a dilemma beyond her wildest imagination—a struggle to save the family legacy.

Managing a financially viable ranch is hard enough without having to battle the huge wildlife preserve organization buying up the land around her. Their agenda: reintroduce species to the prairie that will end the way of life for ranchers. Joining forces with her neighbors, she helps fight to maintain the family-owned businesses that have fed the nation for generations.

But will a new friendship expose her plans to the organization and set her on a course to lose everything her parents built? How can one young woman make a difference before the ranch is wrenched from her forever?

About the author:

Heidi M. Thomas grew up on a working ranch in eastern Montana, riding and gathering cattle for branding and shipping. Her parents taught her a love of books, and her grandmother rode bucking stock in rodeos. She followed her dream of writing, with a journalism degree from the University of Montana. Heidi is the author of the award-winning “Cowgirl Dreams” novel series and Cowgirl Up: A History of Rodeo Women plus Seeking the American Dream, Finding True Home, Rescuing Samantha, Rescuing Hope, and Rescue Ranch Rising, Goth-girl to Cowgirl and Saving Her Prairie.

New Book Release: Let Him Go Wild - by Robert Ronning

 

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In Let Him Go Wild, the sequel to Wild Call to Boulder Field, park ranger Wade Conrad searches for black-market wildlife traders in Arizona’s White Mountains, while Jesse Hayduke, paroled from jail, labors uneasily at a golf course along the Coronado Trail. Until he meets the course cart-girl, Ruby Martinez, a young woman of Apache-Mexican heritage, who takes a liking to Jesse and shares with him the healing powers of the wilderness and a respect for wildlife—especially for Perrito, a curious coyote pup that friends Jesse after a trapper takes away his family. When the human-coyote connection has its tender moment, Jesse strays over the natural divide between people and wild creatures. He has to learn to “do no harm” and allow Perrito to go his own way in the wild. But it is through Perrito that destiny calls Jesse and Ruby to face the malicious animal trapper and his illegal wildlife captures at his remote encampment. Wade, tracking Jesse, reaches the appalling camp and confronts the trapper for a reckoning over his cruelty and killing.

About the author:

Robert Ronning had an early career in theatre, earning a Ph.D. in communication arts. He directed two plays Off Broadway: a comedy about George Bernard Shaw and a concert docudrama on Albert Einstein at Lincoln Center. He taught performance literature at City University of New York. His writing has appeared in local, regional, and national publications. He pivoted to write about wildlife and conservation, including his adventure novel, Wild Call to Boulder Field, and its sequel, Let Him Go Wild. He lives in Tucson and summers in Arizona's White Mountains, just a few minutes daily dog walk from National Forest and wildlife.