So she gave up on the idea of pursuing a career in publishing. The author was convinced that she did not have the talent to produce fiction.

In fact, she abandoned the activity altogether in university after encountering a few rejections.

While she was always writing, Plum never took the habit seriously. And for a time, she hoped to become an astronaut or a librarian when she grew up.īut once her reading and writing habits intensified, she found that she enjoyed making up stories and writing them down. She was an awkward A student that struggled with math. She picked up the reading habit when she was four. It had a significant impact on the author’s life. Plum’s mother kept finding ways of embellishing the story to give it more magic. She has fond memories of ‘The Twelve Dancing Princesses’, a story her mother would tell Plum and her two siblings during long car rides. The author was teaching at Tours University when she quit, becoming a full-time writer in 2010. Once she lost interest in New York’s busy lifestyle, Plum fled back to France. She spent years working with art and antiques. Life took her to New York in the years that followed. The author eventually left Paris for London to pursue her MA. On the other hand, every time Amy Plum stepped out of her home, she felt like she had just taken her first steps toward a wonderful adventure. She went to work, paid her taxes, cooked meals, and slept like everyone else. On the one hand, her life was relatively normal. The five years she spent in Paris where magical. By working with an American company, she was able to secure employment in the country. She was 23 when she settled down in Paris. They were more than happy to expel people for dancing. But the university she attended there was just as restrictive. They created an environment that was so restrictive that it compelled her to ran away. A student of Wheaton College (Illinois) from where she got her degree in psychology and the Courtauld Institute from where she got her Masters in Medieval Art history, Plum’s family was very religious.

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