Donna M. Gray-Banks

Donna M. Gray-Banks is the President of Ila’s Diamonds LLC. She is also the Founder and Director of the F.R.E.S.H. Book Festivals which are held in the City of Daytona Beach each year in the month of January. Gray-Banks spent many years working for the Federal Government in Washington, DC. Upon relocating to Florida, she spent years working for the Central Florida Community Development Corporation, where she developed and managed a community resource center in Spring Hill which is located in the City of DeLand. Banks was given an opportunity to work for the City of New Smyrna Beach as a Community Resource Coordinator. She is currently retired. Ila’s Diamonds LLC. Were developed to manage and direct the marketing and development of the book series that Banks has written entitled Ila’s Diamonds, I and II. It is anticipated that book III will drop on April 2019. The company is very excited about the launch of the third book in the series. From Ila’s Diamonds came F.R.E.S.H. Book Festivals which is a dba of Ila’s Diamonds. This Festival was developed to assist young inspiring authors with their marketing and to introduce them to veterans of the book business at the festival. Most first-time book writers are eager to learn more about the business, and the F.R.E.S.H. Book Festival gives them the opportunity to received information from other authors, publishers, scriptwriters, and editors. F.R.E.S.H. Is a boutique festival that has the ability for authors to interact on a personal level with their fans and have the ability to do workshops on their books and introduce the book to the community.