Author Emy Louie is the director of public outreach for the United States High Speed Rail Association (USHSR), a national non-profit that aims to help build public, business, and political support for a nationwide high speed rail system. Along with co-author, entrepreneur and ad agency director Nancy Bolts, their book Fast Trains three months after its recent release became one of the top best-selling books in its category on Amazon.com. A major marketing campaign is underway promoting the book and Emy Louie enjoyed an opportunity to speak about the book at the HSR Conference in Los Angeles.“Our book is now a nice addition to furthering this cause why so many of us in the transportation industry are at this major conference on high speed rail,” she said. “I’m not here so much to sell books but to sell the idea and opportunity of high speed rail and to passionately let people know that it is a solution to climate change, for creating jobs and stabilizing our economy, and for ending our energy crisis and dependence on oil.” The book was inspired in part by the tremendous surge of popularity, interest, and ridership in rail travel in the last couple years as Americans across the country overwhelmingly support the advancements and needed investment in public transportation. One such indication of this renewed popularity in train travel is Amtrak issuing a recent report that it currently is experiencing the highest level of ridership in its 50-year history.“Fast Trains” received an enthusiastic endorsement at the conference and Emy Louie is delighted that her and Nancy Bolts’ new book can be integral to bringing high speed rail to all of America!

Numerous benefits of High Speed Rail include the following:• Creates millions of green jobs nationwide building the new rail infrastructure and manufacturing the rail cars• Pays for itself by significantly reducing our $700 billion a year oil purchase trade deficit• Offers a convenient, comfortable way to travel without hassles or delays• Faster commutes/arrival times and lower cost to take• Congestion Relief - delivers new mobility while relieving congestion on highways and runways• A major step toward solving global warming by reducing our oil consumption and emissions• Drastically reduces our oil addiction and lowers our risk from the coming peak oil crisis• Lowers our dependence on costly military operations securing oil flow around the world• Lowers our national security risk, and ends wars for oil• Freedom from oil - Powered by clean electricity from renewable energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal, ocean/tidal• Safe, affordable, green transportation for everyone• Saves lives (43,000 Americans die each year in car accidents)• Provides efficient mobility that moves people and goods without delay and waste

Being a recognized expert on the transportation industry and all things High Speed Rail has afforded Emy Louie a special perspective and a rather focused view on the subject of bringing HSR to North America. It has inspired her to have passion and vision. These in turn animated her to envision and set in motion the writing of HIGH SPEED RAIL FOR AMERICA: THE GREEN TRANSPORTATION REVOLUTION.As director of public outreach for the US High Speed Rail Association, Emy is a key spokesperson for USHSR and in circulating the organization’s many dynamic programs and activities. Well connected in government, grass roots and industry circles, she works diligently and tirelessly in introducing people to USHSR and sharing its vision for building an advanced rail system in North America. Her passion for bringing High Speed Rail to America is perhaps unmatched. It is certainly unsurpassed. Originally an architect by profession (graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in architecture) who once ran her own radio show, Emy has taught numerous university courses in HSR, sustainable development practices, advocacy, and building grassroots movements. She is the source and spirit behind this project, and a force to be reckoned with which, it may be inferred, is as unstoppable as a high speed train whose trajectory is set to bring HSR into the 21st century and to America

Bolts Creative Communications can be said to be the executive organizer and a key driver to manifesting this HSR book project into successful creation and reality. Spearheaded by entrepreneurial CEO Nancy Bolts and senior writer Patrick P. Stafford, Bolts Creative Communications is home to a talented and seasoned creative group. The heads of this diverse agency have over 60-years of combined experience in advanced marketing, writing, project completion, successful business start-ups, online advertising and social networking, and manuscript ghostwriting and publicity.Nancy Bolts is a graduate of the University of Kansas and was a major player at several communications firms in New York City prior to forming Bolts Creative Communication in Raleigh, North Carolina. She succeeded to a level of success that some consider the pinnacle of the advertising world. This she accomplished working at New York heavy-hitter agencies Ogilvy & Mather and DDB Needham Tracy-Locke where she managed significant campaigns for Pepsi, Shell Oil, Kimberly Clark Huggies, and American Express. Nancy’s work has earned her several distinctions and multiple awards for excellence and effectiveness in marketing and communications. She is a co-author of MANGER’S GUIDE TO MARKETING, ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY, which was published by McGraw-Hill in October 2009.