Pump Up Your Book Presents Rembrandt Sings Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Join Michael Johnston, author of the crime/mystery novel, Rembrandt Sings, as he tours the blogosphere February 18 – March 15,2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

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Michael Johnston Headshot ABOUT MICHAEL JOHNSTON

Michael Johnston was born in Leith in 1936 and grew up in the Scottish Borders. At school he was bookish and not keen on rugby. In 1950, he auditioned for the BBC and read a story on Children’s Hour. Leaving school he studied Textile Design but, in 1953, he also auditioned for the BBC Younger Generation programmes and for the next five years worked as an occasional freelance interviewer, presenter and question panel member.

In 1955, he spent a summer working in France. He used his BBC experience to arrange an interview with Françoise Sagan, then a teenage French novelist, which was part of a radio documentary he recorded, wrote and presented. He went on to write several radio documentaries for the BBC including one about the relatively unknown romance between Lord Thomson, Secretary of State for Air in Ramsay MacDonald’s cabinet and the Rumanian novelist, Princess Marthe Bibesco, in which the actress Janet Suzman played the leading role.

In 2001, he embarked on his too long postponed ‘career’ as a novelist and a programme of study with the Open University culminating in a first class BA (Honours) in Literature.

In 2009, Michael was awarded an MA (with Distinction) in Modern and Contemporary Literature by Birkbeck College, University of London. His dissertation was on the impact of Margaret Thatcher on contemporary fiction.

His latest novel ‘Rembrandt Sings‘ is available in print or on Kindle and has received excellent reviews. To find out more about Michael and his book visit his website at www.akanos.co.uk

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Rembrandt Sings ABOUT REMBRANDT SINGS

Ambitious art historian Bill Maguire searches Paris for a subject for his doctoral thesis and follows up faint clues about once famous abstract painter Alexander Golden. He finds himself in Carmel listening to the death-bed confessions of Joe Rembrandt, an art forger on an industrial scale, and meets beautiful Anna Glover whose life seems somehow connected with the dying man.
But when Anna’s lawyer boss completely debunks Rembrandt’s story, he decides it’s time to get out and write his thesis. Unable, however, to get out of his mind Joe’s assertion that he found where Golden disappeared to with his mistress and a cache of his never-before-seen canvases that could be worth millions, Bill searches around Arles for Golden’s farmhouse hideaway that probably never existed outside Rembrandt’s imagination.

He finds Anna there before him and hears yet another version of Joe’s story. Together, they make the discovery that adds love, greed, insanity, academic dishonesty and very likely murder into the mix before leading to a completely unforeseen outcome.

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Rembrandt Sings Virtual Book Publicity Tour Schedule

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Monday, February 18

Interviewed at Books, Books, the Magical Fruit

Tuesday, February 19

First Chapter Reveal at Carol’s Notebook

Wednesday, February 20

Book spotlight at Parenting from a Child’s Point of View

Thursday, February 21

Guest blogging at My Reading Table

Monday, February 25

Interviewed at Confessions of a Reader

Tuesday, February 26

Guest blogging at The Paperback Pursuer

Monday, March 4

Guest blogging at Confessions of a Reader

Tuesday, March 5

First Chapter Review at Alive on the Shelves

Wednesday, March 6

Guest blogging at Bookingly Yours

Thursday, March 7

First Chapter Reveal at CelticLady’s Reviews

Friday, March 8

First Chapter Reveal at My Cozie Corner

Book reviewed at Bless Their Hearts Mom

Monday, March 11

Guest blogging at My Addiction and More

Tuesday, March 12

Book reviewed at My Addiction and More

Thursday, March 14

Book reviewed by Book Reviews and More by Kathy

Friday, March 15

Book reviewed at The Self-Taught Cook



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Michael Johnston’s REMBRANDT SINGS VIRTUAL BOOK PUBLICITY TOUR will officially begin on February 18 and end on March 15, 2013. Please contact Tracee Gleichner at tgleichner(at)gmail.com if you are interested in hosting and/or reviewing her book. Thank you!

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