Disability in Fiction: Austin, a Character with Epilepsy

Austin Tschirhart, age 16 in 2017, is one of my favourite characters to write. I can kind of live vicariously through him and raise awareness at the same time. In this blog post, I’ll discuss my fiction books about epilepsy and how I use disability in fiction.

Do you write fiction books about epilepsy?

I apologize if that wording seems awkward, but that’s apparently the phrasing used in Google searches. (That’s what writing for your audiences entails—using words they enter into Google. ...