Elaine Meryl Brown, author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Lemon City, is Vice President, Special Markets in Creative Services at HBO, where her many responsibilities include On-Air Promotion for HBO Family and HBO Latino, Off-Channel Subscriber Acquisitions Campaigns, Segment Marketing and Brand Promotion for Satellite Cable, and Content Creation for new media platforms. Prior to HBO, Elaine was a Creative Director in Creative Services at Showtime Networks. While at Showtime, Elaine also directed promotional campaigns with stars, including Sidney Poitier, Angelica Huston and Louis Gossett, Jr. She executive produced added value shows for Showtime Original Pictures as well.

Elaine is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts and UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Executive Leadership Development Program. She has earned many awards in the broadcast industry, including an Emmy Award for writing the critically acclaimed ABC-TV network series “FYI,” hosted by Hal Linden. She has also earned several Promax, BDA, Mark, CTAM and New York Film and TV Awards.

Elaine began her writing career at Essence magazine and has written for other national publications such as Woman’s World. She is a Board Member of New Professional Theatre in New York City, a member of the President’s Commission Committee of Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and is professionally affiliated with several organizations including the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications, New York Women in Film & Television, PROMAX and CTAM. Elaine currently resides in New Jersey with her son, David. She encourages readers to visit her website at www.ElaineMerylBrown.com.
 

Playing by the Rules
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ISBN: 0812970349
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: June 2006
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

In PLAYING BY THE RULES, it’s Christmas Day. The Dunlap family and their friends, including The Ladies of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, are singing Hark the Herald Angels sing when at the ‘Glory to the new born king’ part they hear a knocking at their door, and two new Outsiders appear.  The quirky town of Lemon City based at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, never takes kindly to strangers, but it’s Christmas Day and Nana Dunlap opens her heart and home to Jeremiah and his young sister, Ruby Rose who are passing thru town, and that’s when the trouble starts and the hijinks skyrocket to their highest.  Jeremiah takes a liking to Louise Dunlap who is already involved with Medford who intends to marry her, but being adopted, he is determined to find his birth mother before he can propose and start his own family which kicks off the mystery and the question will Medford ever uncover the truth?  Meanwhile Jeremiah’s original plan is put on hold to head up north to find Dick Gregory who he believes holds the key to his future.  It’s all about love, family, community and mayhem in the humorous sequel, PLAYING BY THE RULES when two Outsiders come to Lemon City, a town with its own mind and culture, which will never be the same again. 

Author, Elaine Meryl Brown takes the reader on another stroll through this small memorable southern town in a read that will feel like a refreshing breeze blowing a smile across your face, as you meet people along the way that are sure to remind you of your own.

Lemon City
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ISBN: 0812970330
Format: Paperback, 288pp
Pub. Date: August 2004
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of small-town hijinks and big-time hearts.
Rule Number One: Never marry an Outsider. If you do, the boll weevil will bite you back. Rule Number Two: If you can't be honest, you might as well be dead.

Nestled in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains, Lemon City has ten rules, all designed in the best interests of its tight-knit black community. Granddaddy Dunlap knows all too well what can happen to folks who venture beyond Lemon City's protective borders. He once had to venture outside town to identify his best friend's body. So when his firebrand granddaughter Faye, returns from college married to an Outsider, he must act fast to keep her in Lemon City's safe embrace.

It proves to be a challenge-and not just because the patriarch is distracted by the tensions arising from the heated tomato-growing contest for the annual county fair. Faye's new husband, Harry, is a slick talker with a roving eye. Faye sees him as her ticket to New York City, where she hopes to fulfill big business dreams, but even the best-laid plans can be thwarted, as Faye discovers that marriage itself isn't much of a honeymoon. No matter. She packs her bags, fully prepared to head north with or without her husband, when Harry turns up dead. Now the Dunlap family is trying to figure out-before the Thanksgiving turkey gets cold-who did the deed.

 

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