Good-bye To All That

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When her Hollywood career goes haywire, a young woman must say good-bye to all that . . . or must she? Raquel Azorian has worked her way from temp to executive assistant and is this close to a promotion to junior marketing exec at Belmore Corporation, the media behemoth she’s devoted herself to. She’s learned to play the Hollywood game—navigate office politics, schmooze the right people, avoid the wrong ones, and maintain a sense of decorum even in the craziest of times. All she needs is for her boss to sign her promotion memo. Instead of putting pen to paper, he suffers a very public meltdown that puts not only his professional future but also Raquel’s on the line. Getting to the next rung on the Belmore ladder will require every ounce of focus, but that’s not going to be easy. Raquel’s mom has decided to leave her husband and move into Raquel’s apartment, and her older brother seems to be sinking deeper and deeper into depression. Raquel has to keep her job, stop her parents from divorcing, and save her brother. In the chaos of juggling so much, she finally reaches a breaking point: there’s just not enough time for everything or for everyone. She’s going to have to choose—success at work or happiness at home. But then a chance encounter at a bookstore café leads Raquel to start planning her own Hollywood ending . . . on her own terms.

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Margo Candela's 2010 fiction novel, Good-bye To All That, spans 322 pages and dives deep into the high-stakes, fast-paced world of the entertainment industry. The story centers on Raquel Azorian, a dedicated young woman who has clawed her way up from a temporary worker to an executive assistant at the media behemoth Belmore Corporation. Raquel has dedicated herself entirely to her career and is tantalizingly close to achieving her goal: a promotion to junior marketing executive. Over her time at the company, she has mastered the complex and often treacherous rules of the Hollywood game. She knows how to skillfully navigate office politics, schmooze the right influential people, successfully avoid the wrong ones, and maintain an absolute sense of decorum even when surrounded by the absolute craziest of corporate environments. All she is waiting for is for her boss to finally sign off on her promotion memo, cementing her hard-earned progress on the corporate ladder. However, fate has entirely different plans for Raquel. Instead of putting pen to paper and securing her future, her boss suffers a very public and catastrophic meltdown. This unexpected event instantly jeopardizes not only his professional future but also throws Raquel's career trajectory severely on the line. Suddenly, getting to the next rung on the Belmore ladder requires every single ounce of focus and resilience she possesses. Unfortunately for Raquel, maintaining that required level of intense concentration is not going to be an easy feat, as other personal and professional complications loom on the horizon. The novel explores themes of ambition, loyalty, survival in a cutthroat industry, and the heavy personal costs of chasing corporate success in the glitzy landscape of Hollywood. As Raquel faces the fallout from her boss's disastrous public breakdown, she is forced to reevaluate her path, her sacrifices, and whether the grueling corporate game she has played so skillfully is truly worth the toll it is taking on her life. Candela crafts a narrative that captures the absurdity and pressure of modern media empires while keeping readers thoroughly engaged in Raquel's desperate bid to salvage her career and determine her own destiny.

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