Syntagma Media is proud to announce a special online pre-publication event : Steve Newman’s fictional biography of Ernest Hemingway, Going The Other Way From Home is now appearing in its entirety in twice-weekly chapters for Syntagma’s Web Network Magazine.

Steve Newman is a playwright, director, actor, historian, and freelance writer, who lives and works in Shakespeare’s Stratford. In 1997 Steve, along with two other Stratford playwrights, founded The Bird of Prey Theatre Company, which is dedicated to promoting new work. Since that time BoP has produced fourteen new plays by writers from around the world.

Steve writes regular features for such magazines as Writers’ Forum, Book & Magazine Collector, Family History Monthly, The Dalesman, Citizen Culture, and The Writer.

Going The Other Way From Home is a fictional biography of Ernest Hemingway that tries to show how his future actions were influenced by his and his family’s past. It is often told from Hemingway’s point of view and from those who came into contact with him, and uses actual historical narrative to help weave a fascinating account, not only of one of America’s greatest writers and men, but also of his times and the people he came into contact with, such as Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Max Perkins, Morley Callaghan, J.D. Salinger and of course his wives, Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh. Along the way we shall absorb many another story — so be prepared for a few surprises.

This publication follows in the great tradition of pre-publishing books as serials, made famous, of course, by Charles Dickens. Don’t miss this one.