Blazing Reader,

Plenty of people have told me they want to see Much Ado About Corona turned into a movie.

While I'm not against the idea, I think it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. Nor do I think it would necessarily be more effective.

Case in point...

Bill Browder explains, in an interview with Dave Perell, that he wrote Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice because Hollywood told him his thriller-style, human rights story would be "a hundred times easier to have a movie made if you had a book."

So Browder figured, "Okay, I'm going to write a book so I can get a movie made. And so I started working on this book. My expectation was that it would just be like the intellectual property for a movie. And that nobody would read the book. And ten million would watch the movie.

He never expected the book to become a major international bestseller.

Yet despite the book's fame, eleven years later, there is still no movie adaptation.

"Hollywood is petrified," says Browder, "they don't want to go anywhere near this story. No one wants to be on Putin's sh*tlist. But it doesn't matter — with my objective — because everybody's read the book."

If a story about Russian fraud is too risky for Hollywood, I don't see my novel about the COVID fraud hitting the big screen anytime soon.

But, like Browder's Red Notice, I don't think it matters.

Much Ado About Corona has the potential to sell millions of copies.

As James Corbett, of The Corbett Report says, "Much Ado About Corona is a powerful rebuke to the would-be tyrants of the biosecurity state, but it is not a screed or a tract or a manifesto, it is an exploration of the human cost of the pandemic measures. There are no cookie-cutter, 2D, black-and-white characters here. The protagonists and antagonists alike have their back stories and motivations, and by the end of the story you will see that it is the old verities of the human heart, love and sacrifice and understanding, that will see us through every emergency, real or imagined."

You can help turn this "powerful rebuke to the would-be tyrants of the biosecurity state" into an international bestseller (maybe even a movie!). Please leave reviews on Amazon, Goodreads and anywhere else people are talking about books.

And, of course, please purchase copies for friends, family and your local library or curbside book boxes (remember the audiobook version is also now available).

Hollywood will likely never touch Much Ado About Corona, while ten million readers may have trouble putting it down.

John C.A. Manley

P.S. Not only can we make this an international bestseller... who knows, maybe it'll be a movie one day, too. However, I can't imagine chopping this 500-page novel down into even a three-hour movie. It deserves a twelve-episode streaming miniseries.

P.P.S. For another reason why Much Ado About Corona may be better off as a novel check out: The reason why books are often hard to translate into movies.

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.