Back next week with more thoughts on things I learned at KidLit Con (including how it has affected the way I am reviewing one book for my column next month), but I caught a photo essay on the upcoming book Chicks With Guns in the current issue of Town & Country and had to share a bit of it here. The photos are gorgeous and the subject matter very compelling. I will certainly seek this one out for what it says about America, women and the long tangled relationship our culture has with guns.

Did I say the pictures were stunning? They are - more at a recent Field & Stream post.

[Post title from the catalog copy; caption for the top photo: "Alison, Marlee, Lee, and Margaret consider themselves a hunting family. They are each profiled individually elsewhere in the book, but adjacent to this photo, Margaret tells the story of when family friend Bing Crosby declined an invitation to hunt at her great-uncles’ camp—because his wife was not invited.]