Girls with Guns

My friend Bonnie is into genealogy, but she goes a step farther then most. She likes to write hysterical fiction, featuring her female ancestors.

What is a hysterical fiction, you may ask? Well, it's kind of like historical fiction, where a writer does quite a lot of research and takes only a few reasonable creative liberties. Bonnie also does quite a bit of research; but her creative liberties are not restricted to the reasonable. In fact, if an event might have happened, she assumes that it did.

For example, in her latest novel, Barbary, Bonnie has her protagonist somehow participate in every interesting historical event that happened near Johnston County, Tennessee anywhere between 1775 and 1851, like meeting Davie Crockett. The lady apparently was quite a riot in her own right.

Hoping to capitalize on the recent interest in girls with guns, as evidenced by the vast support of Sarah Palin, I painted a possible book cover illustration. I figure that around Christmas, people buy all kinds of stuff, but especially stuff with girls and guns. 'Tis the season!