Overview

MK lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her family and writes middle grade books. She enjoys keeping busy with many activities, which helped inspire her books. While vacationing at Hilton Head, she helped find a way to save baby sea turtles.

Her books are STEM based because she wants to inspire girls and it fits her engineering background well. Her series, Putney and the magic iPad were written with the idea of a girl MacGyver.

If kids like science and projects, these books are just the thing for them.

Website

https://putneydesigns.com

Book

Putney and the magic iPad

Favorites

Sarah Woodbury

YouTube

https://youtu.be/kenfytdN0ic

Transcript

[00:00:42] Stephen: today on episode 1 0, 2 of discovered Smiths. I have. Uh, VK Tuft, who is talking about her book Putney and the magic iPad, actually, it's a Siri. And this one I really loved for multiple reasons because she is a middle grade author, just [00:01:00] like me. We had a lot to talk about. Plus she made her books based on her engineering background.

So they are stem based. They have what she kind of talks about, uh, wanting to make a female MacGyver, which are all things near and dear to my heart. So it sounds like we had a lot in common and we did, and it was a great talk and we had so much fun. So I encourage you. If you've got kids check out these books, listen to the interview.

If you're an author and you've been wondering, how do you market middle grade listened to the second half? Because obviously that was something we could talk about and we did, and she's done even more than I have. So there's some great information in there for anybody. Let me get right to it. Here's VK, Marsha.

Welcome to discovered wordsmiths. How are you this morning?

[00:01:52] MK: I'm doing really well. Thank you, Steven. How are you?

[00:01:57] Stephen: Good. Good. [00:02:00] Not too bad. Did you get caught in the snow?

[00:02:03] MK: No, I was home when it snowed, so I didn't have the bad stuff. My, we spend time in health. And we came back, we're traveling back new year's day and January 1st and January 2nd.

And we got home, which is Cincinnati, Ohio for us ahead of the snow and my sister who lives in Virginia. She got on us. We dodged the bad snow bullet. And then yesterday we had more than I was expecting. Since I'm a retired engineer and I work from home on my book. I didn't have to go out in it.

[00:02:43] Stephen: Yeah. Same here.

So you live in Cincinnati cause I live up by Kent state. So both the pile. Cool. So why don't you tell us now that we know that where you live, why don't you tell everybody a little bit about you and some of the things you like to do besides writing,

[00:02:59] MK: [00:03:00] as I mentioned, I'm a retired engineer and from,