Here we are at the beginning of another week, on a day that happens to be the anniversary of several significant events in the history of written things. 

Four hundred eighty years ago today in London, a list of heretic books was ordered burned.   A short 13 years later on this date, Copernicus published the landmark work on the heliocentric model of the solar system, De Revolutionibus.

On this day in 1610, on the 3rd anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Sir Thomas Gates establishes a draconian civil code for the colony.  (Fourteen years later to the day, Virginia is declared a failure and its charter is revoked.)

This is also the birthday of magazine and newspaper publisher Samuel Irving Newhouse (1895-1979) and United Press International (1958). 

Now, on to the book-oriented side of publishing, with this week’s literary agent links! Continue reading →