About B.D.
A lifetime resident of Kansas, B.D. Tharp is the author of Feisty Family Values, published by Five Star Publishing in February 2010.B.D. began a freelance copy writing and editing company in 2004, now called Scribble LLC. She has been published in Sheridan Edwards Review, Women’s Focus magazine, Active Aging Magazine, Wichita Register magazine, and A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind: An Anthology.
B.D. just completed Patchwork Family, the sequel to Feisty Family Values. More...
Tag Archives: art
Sometimes you just know.
Sometimes you just know what to do, and sometimes your just not sure. If you’re lucky, you make the right decision. If you find that is not the case, well, let’s just say that there are many paths we can take. If we head in the wrong direction, it’s time to turn around and go another way. The same holds true in writing. Authors don’t always know where the story is going, until it gets there. When it works we just know. But we’re a insecure bunch, it comes with being creative, and we need the input of others – … Continue reading
Balancing act!
Life is a balancing act. Especially in this day when everything is so tightly scheduled. We communicate in so many ways, but they are usually short messages letting our friends and family know we’re still here and thinking of them. I don’t remember the last time I wrote or received a really long letter. Now, it’s quicker and easier to dash off an email, get right to the point, and move on to the next project. Many of us fall into the over-achiever category. And once there we have to maintain it, right? We mark off all the things we’ve … Continue reading
Reading is reading
I just realized, I have been a book snob. Who knew? Reading is one of my FAVORITE things, and I read most every genre, by new and well know authors. Magazines and journals are fun to read, too, but I’ve been all about the BOOK. Let me explain. My husband loves magazines and reads the occasional book. My son loves artsy magazines, graphic novels, comics and also reads the occasional book. I devour a book a week (or more). I always thought that you weren’t really a “reader” unless you read “books”, not magazines, not comics, not graphic novels. Books. See … Continue reading
