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Elaine Meryl Brown was selected as one of '25 Influential African-American Women in Business for 2007' by The Network Journal. It's a prestigious honor and award for the HBO Vice President and author of the best-selling novels, PLAYING BY THE RULES and LEMON CITY. Elaine oversees the production of video marketing in Creative Service at HBO. A Daytime Emmy Award winning Writer for the ABC-TV show, FYI with Hal Linden, Elaine has also worked at Showtime, NBC, and written a show, 'Happy New Year, America' for CBS. She was also awarded the prestigious African-American Heritage Award last month by the New York City Comptroller, the Honorable William Johnson. And if you were listening to the Wendy Williams Experience last Friday, you caught Elaine on the air, live chatting with the Diva herself. In fact, PLAYING BY THE RULES was a 'Wendy Williams Book Club' Pick for February.
According to Elaine, it was a 7th grade writing assignment that inspired her love for writing. Portraits of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Thurgood Marshal and Langston Hughes sit on her desk for inspiration. She dubs them 'My Four'. For the '25 Influential African 'American Women in Business for 2007' award, Elaine was honored along with twenty-four other professional business women in various careers and industries ranging from Chief of Operations and Player Relations for the WNBA to Hazel Dukes, the notable Civil Rights Activist. Interestingly enough, Elaine was also honored along with Hazel Dukes for the African-American Heritage Award she received along with four other honorees including Rev.Dr. James Forbes, formerly of the Riverside Church.
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Elaine's most recent installment of her fiction series, PLAYING BY THE RULES, which takes place in the all Black town of Lemon City, Virginia, is a humorous story of one woman's journey to define love on her own terms through being in a love triangle that's complicated by a little sister and a little mystery.
How does Elaine hold it all down as a TV Executive and author? Her response is F&D, which she says is all about Focus and Discipline. Her feeling is that if you believe in the characters, the story and that you have something to share and say that you'll make time for the writing. 'There's a lot of sacrifice that goes into fulfilling a dream and as you know nothing worth having comes easy', says Brown. 'I run into countless people who tell me they have a story they want to write, and what I say to them is just, 'do it'. There are a lot of distractions in this world, but tune them out and get down to business, and you'll find the feeling to be extremely rewarding.'
This year is off to a rollicking start for Elaine Meryl
Brown, not only with her two awards, but also with the success of PLAYING BY THE
RULES which is flying off the shelves and selling like crazy on-line as well.
So don't miss out, and get your copy today!
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Elaine Meryl Brown on AALBC.com official Website
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