That’s hard to answer but I’d say it’s less about the thrill or the act of the crime and more about the human cost.

Yep I’ve spent years trying to avoid it ha

It is a fascinating aspect that doesn't get much coverage. I believe Mickey Zucker Reichart did something similar with her hero in the Renshai books. I can't think of many others.

Right, but part of the character personality was very much 'this relying upon others because I cannot... is weakness... I refuse to be weak' like I said, I wrote myself into so many corners hahaha

Back when I was teaching I borrowed 15 wheelchairs and had my class spend the day in them, in Stockholm city, in pairs, to write pieces on the frustrations they faced, etc.

Were you in the editorial office?

Hahaha. Yeah, there were at least two scenes where I couldn't work out a better solution than that... it worked pretty well generally. But it was mindbendingly difficult sometimes to logic the simplest stuff, which did impact how I saw disability friendly stuff.

Hahah that's Apple deciding I didn't mean Warhammer and throwing in a very different vision (for me, it's Hammer, pre-1939 Bela Lugosi) which I quite like hahahah

I've still got about 10 chapters left to actually finish it, things became that tricky. About a decade back I stripped out half of the story and released it as Ghosts of the Conquered, but I keep wanting to use the skills I now have to go back and fix the full, massive, 200k novel and just have it.

In my first attempt at a fantasy novel, pre-war hammer days, I had a military genius character who was rendered paraplegic after a battle, had him design a war chariot and all sorts, even a prototype wheelchair, etc, as he was still going to run the city defences. Wrote myself into so many corners.