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Welcome to TwoMindsFull, where bestselling co-authors Donna Grant and Virginia DeBerry's joint stream of consiousness will hold forth on life, writing, life, books, shoes,life, picks & peeves and---oh yeah did we say life? You can visit our websi
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We've Been Nominated!!!
We are honored to have once again been nominated for an African American Literary Award Show award. We won two of these wonderful awards in 2004 for Better Than I Know Myself. Our category is "AUTHOR ...
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...
Then a video is worth about a billion words right? At least that’s our story and we’re sticking to it since we are being seriously lazy today and posting a video blog...This is an interview we did...
Thumbs Up
We arrived at the hospital in the pre-dawn hours to find a waiting room jammed full of patients whose arrival time was clearly before our 6AM call—talk about cruel. The great thing about the early a...
The Big O...no not that...O
Well—we’re headed for yet another exciting experience tomorrow! Donna’s having an "O"PERATION--outpatient hand surgery and Virginia’s the designated driver and responsible person—which could...
Together Again!
We survived last weekend! You probably already guessed that we would. It wasn’t easy, but we did it!! Donna’s events in Galveston with Sisters Sippin’ Tea went off without a hitch as did Virgini...
Flying Solo
This weekend we are embarking on a brand new adventure—hey what would life be without something new and different?On Saturday we are each doing a solo appearance. That’s never happened before!! Bu...
A Brand New Venture!
They're Here!!!!Get your original TiffiBag™, by DeBerry & GrantTiffiBag—we did it just like Tiffan”I” did in Gotta Keep on Tryin'—scouting for funky-cool remnants and having totes made t...
Interview--Gritsncheese.com
This is an audio interview we did with Monica from GritsnCheese.com. There are also interviews on her webiste with film director Bill Duke and former San Francisco Mayor, Willie Brown--along with man...
Book Tour Part 2: Scenes from Southern California
At Eso Won Books in LA Tabahani Book Circle Brunch at The Grand in Long Beach More at Eso WonAt Borders in Torrance At Eso Won Signing and talking after our reading at Eso Won Answering two questio...
BOOK SOUP
Happy President’s Day to all who are enjoying an extra day of rest...or shopping!You know how you make soup from lots of good stuff that’s leftover in the refrigerator. We do. Soup is a major food...
US on YOUTUBE
Do book/author videos matter? Do they affect your decision to buy/read a particular author? http://sisterstalk.com/blackblogs/links.php...
ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So...this is it! We’re about to head off on the Gotta Keep on Tryin’ tour, which means that our blog may not be the regular Monday and Thursdays it has been for the past several months. Mostly bec...
Gotta Launch Party Photos
On January 7, 2008 we had a launch party for Gotta Keep on Tryin' and about 150 friends, family and fans of our work at Makeda Ethiopian Restaurant, in New Brunswick, NJ. We had a ball and partied unt...
Cover Girls! OK--- Cover Women...
We are thrilled to be on the January cover of the Black Expressions Book Club magazine--so we're sharing. And we know it's a little crooked, but it's the best we could do! http://sisterstalk.com/blac...
DEADLINE DIARRHEA
OK—so you know we’re finishing another book right? Well yesterday was our deadline. We could tell, because we both had a case of deadline diarrhea. Still don’t know how it happens. ...
WRITING IS NOT PRETTY
We got our first real copies of Gotta Keep on Tryin’, on Tuesday. We even celebrated with the UPS guy—he’s the regular guy—so he knows what we do and said he was honored to be the first “rea...
LOOK & LISTEN
OK we went to a big fancy publishing industry cocktail party (hosted by Bertelsman--Literary Guild, Black Expressions, Book of the Month, Doubleday, etc.) in New York last night, then out to dinner wi...
Halloween-Turning Pages Style
While we’re really different in a lot of ways, one common denominator—neither of us cares much for dressing up on Halloween (Virginia is fond of dressing up, pretty much every day, but she likes t...
Our Brilliance Week in Michigan!
Over the last 26 or so years of friendship, we have spent more hours together than we could possibly count, or remember for that matter. We have spent it in cars, trains, airplanes, offices of varying...
BOOK TOUR
When we’re writing, the idea that an actual book will come out seems like some kind of crazy dream. Even when we type, “The End,” and collapse in a heap, it only seems marginally real. Yes, then...
A NOVEL GIFT
So here’s the deal—we are about to go into “the cave.” Which means we have a book to finish by the end of the year (so it’s out in January ’09, for all of you who fuss at us for taking too...
9/11 BEFORE AND AFTER
Six years ago---we all remember exactly where we were-THAT DAY.Just as previous generations remember where they were when they heard about Pearl Harbor (Probably on the radio. We weren’t born yet). ...
Mother Monday Part 6: MU-DEAREST
We spent this past weekend in Chicago at the National Book Club Conference, presented by Black Issues Book Review. Not only did we get to hang out with readers from around the country, we also got to ...
HOW'D THEY DO THAT?
"How in the world do two people write a book together?" That's one of the questions readers ask us most often. At first we were really surprised by the question—we hadn’t thought about the “how....