PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 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
literary 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
collection 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, 2010
Fiction/Literature
ISBN 978-0615367323
U.S.A. $14.95, Europe €14.95, UK ₤8.33
Trade 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.org
Video of PARIS BOOK LAUNCH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EevUEEJH3GQ

Welcome to Harvard Square Editions’ second short-fiction anthology, Voice from the Planet, a
dramatic 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
Charles Degelman has gathered this multinational short fiction collection with authors and

1
 PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review
publishers 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
holding in your hands.

Living fiction
For centuries, much of world literature has been published within particular cultural, national, or
regional 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
enable 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.

2
 PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 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).

© Alan Meier 2005

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans

Frontières (MSF), an international medical
humanitarian 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
independent, impartial assistance to those most in
need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring
attention to neglected crises, to challenge
inadequacies 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 magazine

http://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. Wilson
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2RW1NPX09DQLL/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Arizona State University News

http://asunews.asu.edu/20100930_anthology
and
http://asunews.asu.edu/20100527_fictionanthology

Latin Couver, Vancouver, B.C.

http://latincouver.ca/home_page_articles/en/literature
3
 PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

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

LA Observed - Morning Buzz

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

Out Smart Magazine

http://outsmartmagazine.com/2010/10/voice-from-the-planet/

Blog: Laura Stegman, a well-known arts publicist in L.A.

http://laurastegman.blogspot.com/

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

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

The Bay Area Reporter

http://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,
Belgium 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.com
Los Angeles: Diane Haithman dhaithman@yahoo.com
4
 PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

Globe-trotting anthology earns Book of the Month nod from Brit Lit Review
Brussels: Ruben Varda fb594493@skynet.be
Los Angeles: Charles Degelman chas@chasdeg.com
New York: Sean Elder elder.sean@gmail.com
New York: Teresa Hsiao teresa.hsiao@post.harvard.edu
Los Angeles: Dan Loughry dan.loughry@nbcuni.com
Los Angeles: Susan Lindheim slindheim@gmail.com
Finland: Joel Willans joelwillans@yahoo.com
Vancouver, B.C.: Eitan Olevsky eolevsky50@gmail.com
Brussels: J. L. Morin jlmorin@post.harvard.edu
Bulgaria: Maria Pavlova mariapav@abv.bg
Brazil: Alisa Clements alisaslide@gmail.com
Tucson, Arizona: Jay Boyer J.Boyer@asu.edu
Scotland: Vivien Jones vivien@freeola.com
Pittsburgh: Sharon Dilworth sd20@andrew.cmu.edu
United Kingdom: Ben Cheetham benjamin.cheetham@btinternet.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts: D.E. Tingle tingletlc@aol.com
Austin, Texas: B. R. Bonner bbonner3@austin.rr.com
Dallas, Texas: Joanne Groshardt joannegroshardt@yahoo.com
Sacramento: Dave Woods dwoods2020@gmail.com
Toronto: Andrew Binks binksandrew@gmail.com
Los Angeles: Ben Mattlin bmattlin@earthlink.net
New York: Helene Valentina de Portu valentina@seachangeleader.com
New York: Wickham Boyle wixboyle@mac.com
San Francisco: David Landau pureplayed@live.com
New York: Paula Brancato BrancatoNY@aol.com
Milwaukee: Kalman Applbaum kalman.applbaum@gmail.com
Vancouver, B.C.: Lauren Handman lauren.handman@gmail.com
Central 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
5
 PRESS RELEASE: 1/28/11 Contact: simonew@harvardsquareeditions.org

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