Throwing Lead:

A Writer's Guide to Firearms and their Users

by J. Daniel Sawyer and Mary Mason

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A division of ArtisticWhispers Productions

Text Copyright © 2011 J. Daniel Sawyer and Mary Mason

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Cover art © 2012 Arthur Wright

Cover design © 2012 Benjamin Sawyer

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Author's Note

by J. Daniel Sawyer

The genesis of this project owes a huge debt to Philippa Ballantine, who initially tapped me for some weapons training—and also to Elizabeth Reisine and Gail Carriger, both of whom soon after voiced frustration at the lack of intelligible writer's references for firearms. There followed a quick-and-dirty draft for what was intended to be a podcast series, which I ran by my friend and longtime collaborator Mary Mason.