Charles E. Gannon
Time May Change Me, But I Can’t Trace Time
Time May Change Me, But I Can't Trace Time By Charles E. Gannon, Ph.D., and David Carrico (with props/apologies to David Bowie for the title) (This is the first of several possible articles that will grow out of a series of discussions among the members...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor Number Eight: Authenticity, Site Surveys, and Blind Serendipity
I have been asked a number of times how much research I did in order to invoke the sense of place that often pervades 1635: The Papal Stakes. The answer is, "Lots." And there are two parts to that answer. The first part is the frank admission that strong reliance upon...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor Number Seven: The Exception That Makes the Rule: Cutting a Chase Scene
Ironically, the last great chase of 1635: The Papal Stakes was cut from the novel. Reason: it simply was not essential to the plotline that we see the failed Spanish attempt to intercept the rescue forces that extracted Frank and Giovanna Stone from their prison in...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor, Number Six: Pirates as Prey
Much of the second half of 1635: The Papal Stakes involves defeating, avoiding, even stealing resources from, the plentiful pirates of the seventeenth-century Mediterranean. And while all the main scenes involving these scrapes and adventures were retained, some of...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor Number Five: The Word According to Whom?
The longest running battle in the entirety of 1635: The Papal Stakes does not involve guns or horses or ships, but holy writ. Arguably, the theological fate of Roman Catholicism—and consequently, the prospects for near-term cessation of internecine religious...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor, Number Four: Books Within the Book
In many ways, 1635: The Papal Stakes is a book dominated by other books and documents—by the Bible, by Vatican II, by learned commentaries, and even by The Lord of the Rings. One of the major writings that remained largely unremarked were the lost accounts of the life...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor, Number Three: Thomas and Sherrilyn: Frenemies Without Benefits
After Thomas North shared the grim secret of his crucial absence during Liam Donovan’s tragic loss, there remained the matter of whatever unresolved personal tensions—both positive and negative—existed between him and Sherrilyn Maddox. However, their eventual...
About the Faces on the Cutting Room Floor, Number Two: The Secret Guilt of Thomas North
Sherrilyn Maddox’s perplexity regarding Thomas North’s strange reactions to her was magnified when he avoided detailing the apparent falling-out he had with his co-commander of the Hibernian Mercenary Battalion, Liam Donovan. It took a while for the circumstances—both...
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