Thursday, December 25, 2014  Authors Virginia DeBerry and Donna
Grant  Ten years ago countless readers were struck by Virginia
DeBerry and Donna Grant’s true-to-life novel, Tryin’ to Sleep in
the Bed You Made which became an Essence magazine best-seller,
was named Blackboard Book of the Year and won the Merit Award
from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Requests for a sequel poured in as fans couldn’t get enough of
the easily relatable trio of characters. After a decade-long
hiatus, best friends and bestselling authors DeBerry and Grant
revisit the lives of Gayle, Pat and Marcus in “Got to Keep On
Trying.”  With five novels to their credit, Virginia DeBerry and
Donna Grant, best friends for 25 years, have turned a friendship
into the most successful and enduring writing collaborations in
African American fiction.  DeBerry and Grant have also joined
forces with other investors to form a production company titled
4 Colored Girls Productions. Currently DeBerry and Grant are in
the process of