Author Description

This is not a book about lust. It’s a book about longing. Julie Marie Bishop was a preacher’s dream turned pole dancer, a single mother turned spiritual rebel, and a backslider who still knew how to find the altar. Her life doesn’t fit in a pew, but her calling never left. Want God + Good Sex is the raw, real, and redemptive story of a woman who searched for love in hotel rooms, nightclubs, and broken relationships—only to discover that the intimacy she craved could only be found in the arms of God. Told with grit, humor, and unapologetic grace, this memoir takes you from strip clubs and swinger parties to revival tents and sacred altars. It's a testimony for the misfit, the addict, the woman who’s still sleeping with someone she doesn’t love, the church girl who ran, and the daughter who never stopped being wanted. This book is for the ones who believe they’ve gone too far. The ones who still feel the Spirit—even when they’re in sin. The ones who crave sacred love, not surface-level pleasure. It’s not about being approved. It’s about being anointed. It’s about finally wanting the God who wanted you first.