B. D. Tharp

A lifetime resident of Kansas, B.D. Tharp worked days and attended Wichita State University nights, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications, Women/Minority Studies and Fine Arts. B.D. began a freelance copy writing and editing company in 2004, now called Scribble LLC. Some publishing credits include a short story, articles, and an essay that has appeared in Sheridan Edwards Review, Women’s Focus Magazine, Wichita Register Magazine, and A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind, an Anthology. Accomplishments include: Writer’s Digest 76th Annual Competition-Stage Play category award winner, Kansas award winner in short story, children’s picture book, and prose. B.D. has completed a novel of women’s contemporary fiction, Feisty Family Values, and started working the sequel, Patchwork Family, which also won the KWA award for first pages of a novel.