Novelist Applauds Website With A "Searchlight" For Employees
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 26, 2013 -- Richard Wanderer, who wrote, "The Holiday Party (A Tale of a Corporate Takeover)" http://www.theholidayparty-ataleofacorporatetakeover.com states: "Imagine the help to a prospective employee interested in finding out about a company and being able to receive the true insight from people who have actually worked there? Answers to questions about: the senior management there and what are they like; how they treat their employees; the type of compensation and benefits one can expect, can be found on Glassdoor.com The clincher question, too, 'Would you recommend this company to a friend?' appears there as well."
Wanderer was struck by this website because his novel, a fictional suspense story, "The Holiday Party (A Tale of a Corporate Takeover)" http://www.theholidayparty-ataleofacorporatetakeover.com deals with the subject of a family owned national magazine taken over by a huge media conglomerate. "Imagine", he says, "In real life, through a site like Glassdoor.com, employees of a taken over company could know what to expect by the management of the takeover company in advance. Certainly, how the conglomerate treats its current employees will often mirror how the newly acquired ones will be treated, too." Richard Wanderer speaks about his novel in a 3 minute video at http://youtu.be/jtg9Fv_1mJE .
In Wanderer's fictional suspense novel, "The Holiday Party (A Tale of a Corporate Takeover", a huge, for profit only media conglomerate takes over a family owned national magazine which was run in an employee friendly manner. The conglomerate comes and institutes a Draconian thrift regime and fires loyal employees of the takeover magazine for little or no cause (mostly because in the eyes of the takeover conglomerate they made too much money). Ironically, the magazine's employees' efforts had made the magazine a profitable enterprise and a great takeover target.. He captures the readers; attention right from the start. Beginning his tale with a raging holiday season Manhattan snowstorm, then into a Wiccan coven meeting and onto a traditional Christmas Party in Los Angeles.
Richard Wanderer's background for writing his fictional suspense novel about the takeover of a national magazine and what happens to the lives of its employees after the takeover is that he spent more than 50 years of his life working in the advertising sales departments of major national magazines and newspaper chains in NYC and LA. His characters and scenarios are often an amalgamation of people and situations he has come in contact with through his personal experiences as well as a writer's imagination. Later in life, while working full time and raising a family, he also became a member of the California Bar.
What They Are Saying About Richard Wanderer's Novel, "The Holiday Party (A Tale of a Corporate Takeover" http://www.theholidayparty-ataleofacorporatetakeover.com :
Kirkus Reviews calls it, "A sharply observed saga of workplace tyranny; San Francisco Book Review, "Page-turner"; MidwestBook Review, "Highly Recommended"; Indie Reader, "Suspenseful"; Bookviews by Alan Caruba, "Leaps off its pages"; Cynthia Brian of World Talk Radio, "This book is so well written and is frightening in its accuracy and its realism and ferocity." Published by Two Harbors Press, the novel is in softcover and also available on Kindle and Nook.
Patricia O'Brien, Richard Wanderer, http://www.theholidayparty-ataleofacorporatetakeover.com, (818) 986-7777, [email protected]
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