{"id":35285,"date":"2025-11-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35285"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T22:04:56","slug":"wotr26-authorinterview-joel-shoemaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35285","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Joel Shoemaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35088\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=1024%2C536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?resize=768%2C402&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WOTR26banner.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joel Shoemaker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/joel-s.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/joel-s.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/joel-s.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/joel-s.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/joel-s.jpg?w=450&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>#WOTR26 Author Interviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Joel Shoemaker has been a librarian for over a decade and a magician for more than three! He lives in central Illinois with his husband, frogs named Penn and Teller, a bearded dragon named Toothless, a colony of cherry shrimp, currently nameless, and his dog, Maximus. He consumes an inordinate amount of cheese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you hear about this event?\u00a0 How many years have you attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">This will be my third year. I believe my dear friend and fellow attendee J. Lawson was the one that first told me about it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What genres do you write?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">My first book is LGBTQIA+ YA, my second and fourth books are adult short story anthologies and my third book is a picture book for the queer, affirming-faith community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a book of yours you wish more people read?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">My newest book is a cocktail-themed flash fiction anthology. I wish more people read it and tried out the accompanying recipes. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is one fun fact about you?\u00a0 It can be anything like food allergy, fear of something, weird way you broke a bone&#8230;&#8230;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">I have performed magic for Chuck Palahniuk&#8217;s Halloween Party in Portland, OR. Chuck Palahniuk is the author of Fight Club and it was a WILD honor to be invited to perform alongside the rest of the hired entertainment: a silent clown, a tarot card reader, and a floutist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your social links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shoemakermagicianauthor\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shoemakermagicianauthor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/magicianactor\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/magicianactor\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/21950012.Joel_Shoemaker\">https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/21950012.Joel_Shoemaker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itsjoelshoemaker.com\">https:\/\/itsjoelshoemaker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are your buy links?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joel Shoemaker\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"474\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_eWW8tIClqDcekD&#038;asin=B09JWRXWTT&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Shoemaker #WOTR26 Author Interviews Tell us your name and then a bit about yourself. Joel Shoemaker has been a librarian for over a decade and a magician for more than three! He lives in central Illinois with his husband, frogs named Penn and Teller, a bearded dragon named Toothless, a colony of cherry shrimp, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=35285\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR26 #authorinterview &#8211; Joel Shoemaker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-9b7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35287,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35285\/revisions\/35287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}