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Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD
@drenderturmaud.bsky.social
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Kidlit Author + Trauma Therapist | Rep’d by @BookFairyAngus | Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event
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If you could give a word of encouragement to the #writingcommunity and/or #kidlit community today, what would you say? Here’s mine 👇
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The writing journey isn’t always about writing. Sometimes it’s about living, exploring, being, so that our soul feels alive and we can share that with the world through words. 💜 #writingcommunity #kidlit
October 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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We need art and words and songs. Keep writing. Keep creating lighthouses for the world my friends. 🫶 #writingcommunity #kidlit
In spite of how heavy the world feels, my inspired heart will create beauty in rebellion. We need art and words and songs. Someone, somewhere, is barely hanging on and something beautiful will be their light house. - butterflies rising
October 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#editors who are interested in graphic novels! If you haven’t, check out the @kidlitgn.bsky.social pitch event happening at kidlitgn.com this month! There are some phenomenal pitches by agented & unagented authors posted! (And maybe check out my early reader #GN pitch as well 😉 ) #kidlit
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Advice for my #amquerying peers:

“Query when you & your book are ready, & when the agents you want to query are open: to hell w/ the rest of it!”

(From former agent & editor @keslupo.bsky.social who is a gem to the #writingcommunity !) Full article here: kesialupo.substack.com/p/how-import...
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Write fire my friends. 🔥 Let’s light up this world and change it for the better. #writingcpmmunity #kidlit
I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my nosholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a meteor! —Audre Lorde
September 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Show yourself compassion. Show yourself curiosity. When you experience regret, meet yourself from where you were, not from where you are now.

With 💜, Your Therapist & Author Friend

#writingcommunity #mentalhealth
Regret holds you to a higher standard than even you are able to maintain, it says: “I knew all the answers, I knew what was going to happen, I knew better.” Maybe sometimes you did, but usually, you were just trying to cope & survive within a context that was unfamiliar or scary. Show yourself compassion. Show yourself curiosity. Meet yourself from where you were, not from where you are now.
August 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Beauty is not just something within us or around us, it is something we can create…

—>Through love
—>Through writing
—>Through music
—>Through art
—>Through gardening
—>Through caring for the planet and others
—>Through caring for ourselves
#writingcommunity #kidlit
Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
August 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A #PB that reminds us that we can dance to the unique colors inside of us, no matter what they are. #QueerPit #OS In #editors inboxes now! 🌈(Represented/#agented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social ) If other editors would like to see it, we’d love to send it to you!)
My Rainbow Teacher editor card with comp titles (like My Shadow is Purple, A Teacher Like you, etc.) and themes from the PB.
August 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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There's a place for all of us. MY RAINBOW TEACHER is an accessible & empowering #PB following one child's journey in learning how to dance to their unique colors, w/ support & care from their rainbow teacher. (In #editors inboxes now!) #QueerPit #OS (#agented by @bookfairyangus.bsky.social )
An editor card for PB MY RAINBOW TEACHER that shows comp titles and discusses themes for the PB. Includes an image of a teacher holding the hands of the MC/child.
August 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Writing is grounding. Writing is connecting to ourselves. Writing is healing. #writingcommunity #kidlit
Writing is not a way of escaping reality. It’s a way of engaging with it more completely. Ursula K Le Guin
August 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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This spoke deeply to me today. May we be the lighthouses my friends 🫶 #writingcommunity #kidlit #therapist
If you can it change the course of the storm, be the lighthouse.
August 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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The goal is the anchor, but the steps are what make the difference.
With 💜, Your Therapist + Author Friend #writingcommunity #kidlit
Mental health is not a destination, but a process, it’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.
August 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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And as a part of my entry, I want to share one of my favorite science #PB ! I highly recommend! It’s fun and full of STEAM! #SunWriteFun

www.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25

@kmgreenwald.bsky.social @buchetbooks.bsky.social @swildmansf.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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I entered #SunWriteFun! Any #kidlit peers joining? @ellenmulholland.bsky.social @citlali.bsky.social @steenahernandez.bsky.social @carolynbfraiser.bsky.social
@valeriebolling.bsky.social

www.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25
@kmgreenwald.bsky.social @buchetbooks.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I entered the #SunWriteFun contest today! Any of my #kidlit friends doing it?? @stephanieowens.bsky.social @brilawyer.bsky.social @staceystories.bsky.social @aprilberrybooks.bsky.social @authorkelliebeggs.bsky.social

www.karengreenwald.com/sunwritefun-25

Thank you to @kmgreenwald.bsky.social !
August 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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There is so much light in the world. But don’t be so focused on chasing the light around you, that you forget to see the light you already have within. 🫶 #writingcommunity #kidlit
Don’t be so focused on the light around you, that you miss your own. Danielle render Turmaud
August 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Read that again. 🫶
All of Weather medicine is built on getting rid of pain, which is not the same as healing. Healing is actually the capacity to hold the pain. Dr. Gabor Mate
July 30, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Such beautiful words for life, and the writing/publication journey. May we sit in the in between today 💜 #writingcommunity #kidlit
When you can sit in the space between no longer and not yet, you begin to grow differently. By Nancy Levin
July 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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If you need some encouragement to start your week, I hope you‘ll listen to @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social Ep. 20 w/ Abrams Editor Ivan Taurisano! The authenticity, compassion, & advocacy that Ivan brings is truly inspiring! Link below! #writingcommunity #kidlit
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July 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I was absolutely blown away by Take Your Kid to Publishing Day 2025. The kids were so excited & this amazing group of #kidlit faculty brought them SO much joy! More than ever, I’m so astounded by this #writingcommunity who give their time to make our 🌎 a better place 💜 Coming again next summer! 😄
Photo of the amazing Take Your Kid 2025 kidlit faculty
July 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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I was absolutely blown away by Take Your Kid to Publishing Day 2025. The kids were so excited & this amazing group of #kidlit faculty brought them SO much joy! More than ever, I’m so astounded by this #writingcommunity who give their time to make our 🌎 a better place 💜 Coming again next summer! 😄
Photo of the amazing Take Your Kid 2025 kidlit faculty
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Take Your Kid to Publishing Day 2025 is TOMORROW! We’ve had a few spots open up, so if you know a child 5-17 who would want to see a publishing play, write a short story, meet authors/agents/editors & more, please share w/ them! #kidlit #writingcommunity

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July 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The @ymwjpodcast.bsky.social Season 2 finale is approaching fast & we have a very special #writingcommunity member who will be the guest 👀 Who wants to make a guess? Here are some clues.

They’re a:

➡️Literary #agent
➡️Champion of #kidlit events

Let’s see who can figure it out😉!👇
July 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Your friendly reminder today 🫶 #writingcommunity #kidlit

Love, Your Therapist + Author Friend
You are powerfully you are çapavle you are deserving etc.
July 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM