Virginia Franken was born and raised in the United Kingdom. Her childhood was spent studying dance but somewhere in there she developed a love of reading and then later on, writing.
Meet The Author
MEET THE AUTHOR
Virginia Franken
Virginia Franken was born and raised in the United Kingdom. Her childhood was spent studying dance but somewhere in there she developed a love of reading and then later on, writing. After a spell traveling the world as a professional dancer, she moved to Los Angeles for love and stayed for the weather. A few years ago, she moved from LA’s temperate westside to the foothills in the east, so now she stays despite the weather.
After her dance career, she shied away from writing and instead focused on other people’s words, working as a copyeditor. On maternity leave with her first child, she decided it was a good time to start putting her own words on the page and started journaling. On maternity leave with her second child, she had the idea for a novel about a mom with extreme work-life balance issues and three years later, Life After Coffee was published. There was no third maternity leave so the world had to wait a while for the next novel. In any case, she doesn’t recommend any of this as a good use of maternity leave.
Virginia’s second novel, Half Sisters, was inspired by a man she used to know who dated a woman for years and YEARS before deciding that her younger sister was actually the one he was in love with. He eventually split with the older sister and very soon after married the younger one, but inevitably things got a little … twisted.