Charles Stone is a pastor who has authored four books, one coauthored with his daughter and three for pastors. Here's the link to his Show Notes Page with episode highlights and quotes, his books, and links to his website and social media connections.

Charles' first book was Daughters Gone Wild, Dads Gone Crazy, coauthored with his daughter. Since then, he's written three books for pastors. He explains, as a pastor, the differences and similarities between writing a book and writing sermons, with an application all writers can learn from. He attended the Mt. Hermon Christian Writers Conference and took classes on writing, where he learned about the discipline of writing. One specific class taught him how to write a book proposal. He found an agent, something he learned was important to becoming published. After the first book, he asked himself what he wanted to be known for, and determined he wanted to write to help pastors. Charles candidly talks about balancing the demands of being a full-time pastor with his blogging and writing books, how he keeps his name out there by writing for other organizations, and stays in touch through social media. We spend quite a bit of time talking about the importance of passion in your writing. He takes us through the process of developing a book idea using outlines and mind maps.