Tyson doesn't have the 'poor me' attitude, instead he chooses to engage and interact with life in a way that almost makes the physical disability transparent. I hope anyone can pick it up and be entertained, but I feel it's best audience is the people with new disabling injuries. WG: As you began to develop the ideas for your story, who did you envision your audience to be? In other words, who do you think would be interested in reading Twisted Consequences? Talk a bit about what you do in the book to try to appeal to that audience.

So, knowing that this type of treatment does cause confusion for all the individuals involved, I added it. There was certainly some confusion in the air, no one had much experience with wheelchairs. I borrowed heavily from my own experience here, this did happen to me leaving Europe once. The scene where the airport employees were suspicious about the missing piece of luggage comes to mind. IP: As the story progressed, I wanted the reader to experience some of the confusion that Tyson was having to deal with. WG: Can you discuss a scene in the book in which you drew on your own experience? How did your experience help you to develop that situation in the story? I wanted this story to motivate other disabled people to push the limits if they want to. IP: The key motivation was to write and independently publish this story, parts of it are based on real situations I've personally been in as a quad. WG: Irie, can you talk a little about what motivated you to write Twisted Consequences, and what you hoped the book would accomplish? Irie Parker Interview Interview with Irie Parker

Twisted Consequences by Irie Parker