Today's guest is Tory Element who has co-authored a book with Jim Kukral called Rock Rain. This is Tory's first book and we discuss writing with a co-author.

Tory is retired Air Force and has been working as a fitness trainer along with writing.

One of his favorite book series:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AP9XIK0/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00AP9XIK0&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=5f87620a8d4f3edfcd557928fa47ba0d

https://toryelement.com/

Tory Element Home Page

He also is a fan of Auntie's Books

TRANSCRIPT

Stephen 0:45Sorry, welcome. official opening of the podcast, even though we've been yakking for like 15 minutes. Yeah, good morning, Steve, how you doing? I'm doing great. So let's get started talking author stuff. Tell us a little bit about you and who you are outside of writing outside of your book.

Tory 1:07Um, two things. I'm retired Air Force I did 22 years in the Air Force retired about 10 years ago. And I decided my last year in airports, I was going to start started getting more into fitness. So I wouldn't got certified as a fitness trainer. And kind of been doing that since. But the same time I also decided I wanted to write the stuff I love to read, which is sci fi kind of Action, Adventure stuff. So my last year in Air Force, I started, started writing, and then quickly learned how much I didn't know about writing. spent the next 10 years learning about writing.

Stephen 1:48Nice. Well, I'll get back to that in two seconds, because I have a great question on that one. So the fitness, you and I were talking about this off the air, so to say, Tell everyone a little bit about what you're doing with that where you're going with your fitness?

Tory 2:04Well, I've always been fit in the military, you kind of have to maintain a certain fitness level. But my dad died early from cancer. And I think I think that kind of helped me get more serious about my own fitness. So I got into more fitness. And then I started a thing. Once I got out of the Air Force, I'm like, What am I gonna do? I did, I did have a business degree that I really was interested in using. So I just got certified and started doing personal training and then mind a group training. And that's I've been doing ever since here in Spokane and Fairchild Air Force Base in a local gym down the road here. So a lot of classes, hit style, and cycling. And then you know, one on one, training my, my specialty and my stuff I have to concentrate on is weight loss or fat weight loss, help people lose weight, and move better, basically, is what I concentrate on.

Stephen 3:05And we're talking, we're both 15 ish, especially for people at our age group. If you've learned sedentary life, now it's starting to catch up to you and you need to. And that also affects a lot of authors. Because obviously, you're gonna be sitting a lot if you write

Tory 3:24exactly and and I'm developing a online fitness course, with authors very much in mind.

Stephen 3:33I love that. Because that's what this is all about authors. Besides the fitness, you said you what you got into writing, you've spent a large part of the last 10 years learning to write. And I find that significant because we've probably both been on the forums, listen to other podcasts with authors like, well, I just sat down over the weekend and wrote my first 3000 or 300,000 word book. Now how do I publish it? You know, several? Why? Why did you want to get into writing but you chose to learn? You said,