Article: Stanley Johnson pushes for new release of his 40-year-old virus novel

[German Translator]

---Maybe someone should tell him about indie publishing

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/may/01/stanley-johnson-pushes-for-new-release-of-his-40-year-old-virus-novel

Stanley Johnson pushes for new release of his 40-year-old virus novel

It is easy to see why it could be thrilling fiction for our times: it has a mysterious and fatal virus, an epidemiologist hero, a desperate search for a vaccine and murky political skullduggery. It also features a green monkey.

But whether it is the moment for Stanley Johnson, the father of Boris Johnson, to be pushing his 40-year-old novel for a new release is another question.

Nonetheless, British publishers have been invited to consider reissuing Johnson senior’s 1982 thriller The Marburg Virus, the Guardian has learned. His agent is so convinced of his ability to effectively publicise a reissue that his pitch describes him as “a tireless self-promoter”

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[TimothyEllis]

---Maybe someone should tell him about indie publishing

Definitely.

As I pointed out on another thread, The Stand is in the top end of the Amazon store at the moment.

The Marburg Virus re-released as an Indie book would make a killing if done right.