Press Release: Harvard Square Editions launches globe-trotting short-fiction anthology

PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review

British Reviewer The Truth about Books voted Planet BOOK OF THE MONTH: “Spanning continents and cultures, Voice From the Planet taps into an unacknowledged psyche – our liter-ary world. An incongruous, gorgeous, eclectic mêlée that will open your eyes and mind to the huge potential amongst international authors.”

— The Truth about Books

5.0 out of 5 stars: “A grand variety pack of tales, Charles Degelman puts together a fascinating collec-tion that will never stop entertaining. Voice from the Planet is a solid volume, not to be missed.

— Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)

"... offers wit, beauty, suspense, and an array of diverse and curious experiences . . . .an expedition of discovery of authors from various parts of the world..."

S.J.Wilson, Amazon Reviews

Release Date: October 1st, 2010Fiction/LiteratureISBN 978-0615367323U.S.A. $14.95, Europe €14.95, UK ₤8.33Trade paperback 6 x 9 inches, 428 pgs.

Copyright © 2010 Harvard Square Editions (HSE), Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions www.harvardsquareeditions.orgVideo of PARIS BOOK LAUNCHhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevUEEJH3GQ

Welcome to Harvard Square Editions’ second short-fiction anthology, Voice from the Planet, a dra-matic new approach to publishing. We invite you to wander on a globe-trotting literary adventure through an exciting new world of living fiction.

Experience the trauma of an African earthquake and catch a lush glimpse of love in the jungles of Peru. Explore fire dancing in the mountains of Bulgaria, revisit the American rebellions of the 1960s, and ascend the dizzying world of pre-9/11 high finance.

Planet’s voices are varied and unique, featuring award-winning and new authors from Congo, China, Peru, the United States, Bulgaria, Belgium, Canada, Brazil, Scotland, Finland, and England.

Voice from the Planet is published by Harvard Square Editions, a new, independent press that grew out of a discussion group on the Harvard University web site. Award-winning author and editor

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PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review

Charles Degelman has gathered this multinational short fiction collection with authors and publish-ers donating net proceeds to the Nobel Prize-winning charity Doctors Without Borders.

Most of the creators of Voice from the Planet have never met. Communicating via e-mail and the Internet, we cast about for new work from far-flung and gifted writers, defined common ground, and improvised new digital and multi-lingual editing techniques to create the volume you are hold-ing in your hands.

Living fictionFor centuries, much of world literature has been published within particular cultural, national, or re-gional boundaries. The results are varied but often reinforced. For example, national interests limit most major English-language book prizes: the Pulitzer Prize for fiction goes strictly to American authors, preferably ones writing about American life; the Orange Prize is limited to U.K. authors; and only Commonwealth Country citizens are eligible for the Man Booker Prize.

Conversely, a rich canon of international literature has long been denied to many English-speaking readers, because the possibility of disseminating new writing across cultural, national, and language barriers was limited by geographical isolation, cultural centrism, and now-obsolete technology.

Enter the Information Age — the cyber apocalypse, a communication revolution. The publishers and authors involved in Voice from the Planet have set about to change all that by interacting via the world wide web in an effort to bring you a new fiction without borders, a contemporary, living fiction.

The cyber revolution has played an unprecedented part in the process, with authors and editors sending and downloading manuscripts, translations, and editors’ notes and revisions across oceans and continents, transactions that would have previously taken weeks or months to complete.

Join us in disseminating this intercontinental literature, a living fiction that uses new media to en-able authors, readers, and publishers alike to create and share contemporary literature that reflects today's rapidly changing planet.

Readers, reviewers, and critics can take part in Harvard Square Editions’ living fiction dialogue by commenting on Voice from the Planet stories using the authors’ digital contact information printed at the end each story (Please see contact information below.) or chatting on the web at www.harvardsquareeditions.org.

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PRESS RELEASE: 4/11/23 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review

Harvard Square Editions’ authors and publishers donate net proceeds from Voice from the Planet to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

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Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Fron - tières (MSF), an international medical humanitar-ian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from healthcare, or natural disasters. MSF provides in-dependent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inade-quacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. www.doctorswithoutborders.org

All Reviews:

The Truth About Books, British literary magazinehttp://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/book_review/various/voice_from_the_planet.html See upper right: http://www.thetruthaboutbooks.com/home.html?PHPSESSID=0b55cfa94d17ea6b6c4cfe68d684ad0c

Midwest Review ½- way down the Amazon page at: http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Planet-Charles-Degelman/dp/0615367321/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287398944&sr=8-1

S. J. Wilsonhttp://www.amazon.com/review/R2RW1NPX09DQLL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Arizona State University Newshttp://asunews.asu.edu/20100930_anthology andhttp://asunews.asu.edu/20100527_fictionanthology

Latin Couver, Vancouver, B.C.http://latincouver.ca/home_page_articles/en/literature

LA Observed - Morning Buzz

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2010/10/morning_buzz_friday_10810.php

Out Smart Magazinehttp://outsmartmagazine.com/2010/10/voice-from-the-planet/

Blog: Laura Stegman, a well-known arts publicist in L.A.http://laurastegman.blogspot.com/

Baltimore Outloudhttp://baltimoreoutloud.com/lively-arts/between-the-covers/item/164-read-all-about-it-holiday-book-ideas

Wisconsin Gazettehttp://www.wisconsingazette.com/books/lgbt-fall-and-holiday-book-guide.html

The Bay Area Reporterhttp://ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=588

Book Talks around the World:

A panel discussion with Charles Degelman and J. L. Morin on Voice from the Planet at the Village Voice Bookshop, 6 rue Princesse, 75006 Paris – 2010.

Vivien Jones reads from Voice from the Planet at the first weekend of the Wigtown Book Festival – fall 2010 in the Wigtown Ink Festival Yurt, Scotland, including a discussion about whether one writer can express another's memories, with Ann Shukman, who provided the original material for Vivien’s story in Voice from the Planet.

Moderated by former Member of European Parliament & founding member of the German Green Party Frank Schwalba-Hoth, and: J. L. Morin, Paul-Anthony Delor, and Ruben Varda discuss their writing at Waterstone’s Book Sellers, Boulevard Adolphe Maxlaan 71-75, B-1000 Brussels, Bel-gium Tel: +32 2 219 27 08 — November 11, 2010 at 7 p.m.

Book talk with Sean Elder, Hélène Valentina de Portu, and Paula Brancato on Saturday, October 30 at 3 p.m. Unnameable Books is 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11238, Tel. 718-789-1534, unnameablebooks@earthlink.net

Book talk with Eitan Olevsky and Lauren Handman in Vancouver, BC. Mid-October.

Author contact info:

Democratic Republic of Congo: Paul-Anthony Delor delorpa@hotmail.comLos Angeles: Diane Haithman dhaithman@yahoo.comBrussels: Ruben Varda fb594493@skynet.beLos Angeles: Charles Degelman chas@chasdeg.comNew York: Sean Elder elder.sean@gmail.comNew York: Teresa Hsiao teresa.hsiao@post.harvard.eduLos Angeles: Dan Loughry dan.loughry@nbcuni.comLos Angeles: Susan Lindheim slindheim@gmail.comFinland: Joel Willans joelwillans@yahoo.comVancouver, B.C.: Eitan Olevsky eolevsky50@gmail.comBrussels: J. L. Morin jlmorin@post.harvard.eduBulgaria: Maria Pavlova mariapav@abv.bgBrazil: Alisa Clements alisaslide@gmail.comTucson, Arizona: Jay Boyer J.Boyer@asu.eduScotland: Vivien Jones vivien@freeola.comPittsburgh: Sharon Dilworth sd20@andrew.cmu.eduUnited Kingdom: Ben Cheetham benjamin.cheetham@btinternet.comCambridge, Massachusetts: D.E. Tingle tingletlc@aol.comAustin, Texas: B. R. Bonner bbonner3@austin.rr.comDallas, Texas: Joanne Groshardt joannegroshardt@yahoo.comSacramento: Dave Woods dwoods2020@gmail.comToronto: Andrew Binks binksandrew@gmail.com Los Angeles: Ben Mattlin bmattlin@earthlink.netNew York: Helene Valentina de Portu valentina@seachangeleader.comNew York: Wickham Boyle wixboyle@mac.comSan Francisco: David Landau pureplayed@live.comNew York: Paula Brancato BrancatoNY@aol.comMilwaukee: Kalman Applbaum kalman.applbaum@gmail.comVancouver, B.C.: Lauren Handman lauren.handman@gmail.comCentral Coast, California: Walter E. Gourlay waltergo@comcast.net

Distributors:

United States

Ingram www.ingrambook.com

Amazon.com www.amazon.com

Baker & Taylor www.btol.com

Barnes & Noble www.barnesandnoble.com

NACSCORP www.nacscorp.com

Rittenhouse www.rittenhouse.com

Espresso Book Machine www.ondemandbooks.com

United Kingdom

Amazon.com www.amazon.uk

Bertrams www.bertrams.com

Blackwell www.blackwell.com/library_services

Book Depository Ltd www.bookdepository.co.uk

Coutts Information Services Ltd www.couttsinfo.com

Gardners www.gardners.com

Mallory International www.malloryint.co.uk

Paperback Bookshop Ltd www.paperbackshop.co.uk

Argosy Ireland www.argosybooks.ie

Eden Interactive Ltd www.eden.co.uk

Aphrohead www.aphrohead.com

I.B.S – STL U.K. www.stldistribution.co.uk

www.wesleyowen.com

PubEasy www.pubeasy.com

International

Libreria Ledi www.internationalbookseller.com/

Eleftheroudakis www.books.gr/