Hollywood Dreams
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Sheβs fallen for his greatest role. But can she fall for him?
Former soap star Tom Calvert dreams of making movies that matter. To get the part of a lifetime he becomes a method actor, living as Beau Tennant, a war hero with a disabling injury. While in character he meets Maree Reynard, a costume designer, and takes her on a date. But when this practice date becomes all too real he realizes that heβs made the mistake of a lifetime. Will he be able to get Maree to fall in love with Tom Calvert?
Maree Reynardβs father is an actor and she has grown up on a studio lot. She has no illusions about the artifice of the movie-making business and has vowed she would never date an actor. When she meets and falls in love with Beau Tennant she knows that sheβs found her dream man who is genuine and real. But when Beau disappears from her life she is heartbroken. She meets Tom Calvert on the rebound and sees their flirtation as a way of recovering her shattered confidence. Will Tom Calvert be able to convince her he is the real deal?
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Mae Archer knewΒ she wanted to be a writer since she was a child. She loved listening to her grandmother's war stories about English maidens falling in love with handsome Yankees while England burnt under the Luftwaffe's blitz.Β
When she discovered romance novels as a teenager she soon realised that her dream job was to be a romance writer. After many career twists and turns sheβs making her dreams come true.
Mae's real life is like one of her grandmother's stories. She met a foreigner who travelled through Australia and it was love at first sight. She married him six months after they met and every day since has been an adventure.Β She lives in Australia with her husband and daughter.
Mae has been an avid reader of romance novels since she was a teenager and her own novels combine some of her favourite romance tropes including time travel, second chances and star-crossed lovers.Β
Mae Archer is the pen name for authorΒ AmraΒ Pajalic. Amra writes young adult contemporary fiction under her own name and dark fiction as A.P. Pajalic.
Amra PajaliΔ is an award-winning author, an editor and teacher who draws on her Bosnian cultural heritage to write own voices stories for young people, who like her, are searching to mediate their identity and take pride in their diverse culture.
Amra PajaliΔ won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novelΒ The Good Daughter,Β re-released asΒ Sabiha's DilemmaΒ (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited,Β Growing up Muslim in AustraliaΒ (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoirΒ Things Nobody Knows But MeΒ (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collectionΒ The Cuckoo'sΒ SongΒ (Pishukin Press) features previously published and prize-winning stories.
