We love to celebrate our members!!!! And, Kay Presto is one amazing lady...she sent us the below news from the New York Book Show.
'It is
our pleasure to inform you that your book cover entry, "Chasing The
Checkered Flag," in the Children's Fiction Category, has received an
award in the 2017 New York Book Show!
The Book Industry Guild of New York deeply appreciates your entry for this year's show.
All
winning entries will be on display at the 31st Annual New York Book
Show, to be held Thursday, October 12, 2017. We hope that you will join
us as we meet to review the "Best of the Best'' of book art, production,
and manufacturing from 2016.'
ABOUT KAY (CATHERINE) PRESTO
ABOUT KAY (CATHERINE) PRESTO
Kay
Presto is an award-winning book author, television and radio producer
and broadcaster, photo-journalist, public relations expert, and owner of
her own motorsports website, www.carsandcompetition.com.
She
has covered motorsports for over thirty years, reporting on every type
of racing from Formula One to motocross. She not only covers the
competitive side of racing, but also is an expert on the technical side,
covering such subjects as superchargers, downforce, and other items
that make the race cars competitive.
Her
photo-journalism has been published in the hardcover coffee-table book,
High Octane. Ninety-eight percent of the photos in this outstanding
book on CART racing are hers. She is also the author and photographer
for the award-winning book Power Basics of Auto Racing, and was the
co-producer of the video of the same name. Her photo-journalism has also
been published around the world, in such famed magazines as Sport,
Autoweek, Circle Track, Car Craft, National Speed Sport News, Corsa,
Richard Petty Magazine, and many more.
Her
stories are published in a variety of Chicken Soup books – Chicken Soup
for the NASCAR Soul and Chicken Soup for the Soul: NASCAR, Chicken Soup
for the Coffee Lovers’ Soul, Ultimate Christian Living, and many more.
Other publications in which her work is published are Wake Up…Live the
Life You Love – Giving Gratitude, which was No. 6 on the Barnes and
Noble Best-Seller List, and various books in The Heart series.
She
has been a television producer and on-air sportscaster for CNN and ESPN
“Speedweek,” and has broadcast racing on many major radio networks,
including Mutual, ABC, and NBC. She has done public relations for race
teams, legal firms and businesses throughout the United States, and was
the Director of Public Relations for the Ontario (Calif.) Visitors’ and
Convention Bureau at the Ontario Convention Center.
Her
love of writing has also led her into writing books for children.
Becoming a member of the international Society of Children’s Book
Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), she has recently published the
fast-moving Middle Grade go-karting adventure novel, “Chasing the
Checkered Flag,” and has written twelve other books for children.
For
her work in motorsports, Kay has received 103 national and state awards
in television and radio broadcasting, journalism, photography, and
website, and many other numerous national honors. Her achievements are
currently listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in America,
and Who’s Who in the World.
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