As I’ve shared earlier, my high-school friend Donna Grant has managed to mold herself into a successful novelist, along with her friend and collaborator Virginia DeBerry.

The August 25th issue of Publishers Weekly stunned me today with news of just how successful she truly is by including details of the deal her agent just closed for the team:

At Touchstone, Sulay Hernandez secured world rights to a new novel by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant, Uptown, with a six-figure offer to [agent Victoria] Sanders. This saga will explore New York City’s black aristocracy through the story of an institutionally and politically entrenched Harlem family whose interests in valuable real estate holdings provoke resentment and in-fighting. DeBerry and Grant, who switched to Touchstone for Gotta Keep On Tryin’, published earlier this year, have another novel, What Doesn’t Kill You, coming from the publisher in January 2009.

Congratulations, ladies!