'I was like, okay we got to do something about this. We have to write a story that actually talks about what it's like to have a disability and that you are just a normal person,' said writer Katie Mettner.
RICE LAKE, Wis. â For 25 years, Katie Mettner of Rice Lake has been living a love story with her beloved husband, but there was a painful chapter that happened after a ski accident.'By the time I was 35 I became an amputee, I had already been using a wheelchair for 3 or 4 years,' Mettner explained.As she adjusted to her new identity, the avid fiction reader realized she could barely identify with any of the characters in mainstream books.
'Because romance is the biggest genre in the world and when you don't see yourself represented there, it's hard to connect.'Every novel Mettner wrote had a character with a disability. Her characters use wheelchairs, has a foot drop, and in another one, the character had her foot amputated. Some had hidden disabilities, like congenital heart disease.
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