Hollywood Dreams bookcover

Hollywood Dreams

Amra Pajalic 

(Author)

Mae Archer 

(Author)
4.9/5.0
21,000+ Reviews
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Description

She's 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 he's made the mistake of a lifetime. Will he be able to get Maree to fall in love with Tom Calvert?


Maree Reynard's 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 she's 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?

Product Details

PublisherPishukin Press
Publish DateJanuary 10, 2023
Pages582
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781922871312
Dimensions9.0 X 6.0 X 1.4 inches | 2.3 pounds
BISAC Categories: Romance, Romance

About the Author

Mae Archer knew 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. 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 she's 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. 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. Mae Archer is the pen name for author Amra Pajalic. Amra writes young adult contemporary fiction under her own name and dark fiction as A.P. Pajalic.
Amra Pajalic won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature's Civic Choice Award for her debut novel The Good Daughter, re-released as Sabiha's Dilemma (Pishukin Press, 2022). The anthology she co-edited, Growing up Muslim in Australia (Allen and Unwin, 2014), was shortlisted for the 2015 Children's Book Council of the year awards and her memoir Things Nobody Knows But Me (Transit Lounge, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 National Biography Award. Her short story collection The Cuckoo's Song (Pishukin Press) features previously published and prize-winning stories.

Reviews

'I don't want to give away any of the story. So I'm just going to let you know how great this book was..


It had a wonderful love story, great adventure, and I just fell in love with Maree and Beau/Tom! Even though Tom was not honest I really pulled for him. I can't wait to tell all my friends and people on my blog, twitter and goodreads what a gem this book is. You know it's a great book when you can't put it down and you end up finishing it in one day and writing a review at am at night. This is a must read Well Done Mae Archer!'

5 stars, ABeautifulBookBlog

Full review here


'What I really enjoyed about "Hollywood Dreams" was not only was the love story interesting, but the other storylines meshed in perfectly. There was a crazy stalker, the secondary characters were great, family drama, etc. The only downside I had was I wish Tom was upfront to Maree from the get-go. Obviously, that would have taken away from a good bit of the story, but nevertheless, I will let that slide. Wonderfully written and endearing! Definitely check it out!'

5 stars, Abby

Full review here.


'I love the supporting cast of characters. Love how they really pulse on the pages. They literally have a life of their own."Hollywood Dreams" is different from other contemporary romance novels that I have read in the past. Only little peeve that I had is that I would get more interaction of Maree's family. I know of them but not much else. Just would have liked to have something else to delve into.

Enjoyability: I'd happily do a re-read multiple times.'

5 stars, April

Full review here.

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