About Joel Shoemaker: Joel Shoemaker has been a librarian for a decade and a magician for three! He lives in central Illinois with his husband, a frog, a colony of cherry shrimp, and his dog, Maximus. He consumes an inordinate amount of cheese. What inspires you to write? I wanted to write books for people like me, that is, gay people of faith. A central theme of many successful LGBTQIA+ books that I had read all said the same thing regarding faith, and that was that they couldn't have … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Joel Shoemaker