Lucas Stoffel

Author Luke Stoffel sat down with host Sheri Hoyte on Inside Scoop Live, the author-interview show from Reader Views, to talk about The Warboy Chronicles — a two-book project that began as a handful of journal entries at the end of a fifteen-year relationship and turned into an unexpected, year-long collaboration with AI. The two books, the memoir The Third Person and the sci-fi novel Boy, Refracted, launched June 1, 2026, and both hit #1 Amazon Best Seller in their categor

How to Win One Million Dollars and Shit Glitter, the debut memoir by Luke Stoffel, is a Finalist in the 2026 National Indie Excellence Awards, honored in the Regional Non-Fiction: Midwest category of the 20th annual competition. The recognition arrives just weeks after the memoir won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, giving the openly AI-assisted book two national honors in a single season.

Luke Stoffel is an artist and author based in Lower Manhattan. His debut memoir, How to Win One Million Dollars and Shit Glitter, won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. His companion novels, Boy, Refracted and The Third Person, are the first two volumes of The Warboy Chronicles. Here he talks about grief, machines, the Buddhist Eightfold Path, and what it costs to love someone you keep trying to fix. Luke Stoffel Recent Interviews: Your first book started as a joke. Is that

One series, two books, two genres that have nothing to do with each other. Boy, Refracted hit #1 in Zen Philosophy and LGBTQ+ Science Fiction. The Third Person hit #1 in Southeast Asia Travel, a few spots above the DK guidebooks. They top those lists for the same reason: they are not really genre books. They are one story about AI and love, told from two sides.

Book Review PW BookLife: "Stoffel's experiments with memoir, fiction, and the insights of chatbots continue in this truly singular book, which stands out from the glut of human and Al literary collaborations in several key particulars. First, Stoffel contributes more to the text than just prompts, as Boy Refracted tasks his LLM, called Claude, with helping Stoffel find real answers to urgent, intimate questions about his past, his patterns, and how to find a way forward.

On May 15, 2026, at the Independent Book Publishers Association's annual Publishing University conference in Portland, Oregon, author Luke Stoffel was awarded the 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the Neurodivergent Communities category for his memoir How to Win One Million Dollars and Shit Glitter. The award is the most established and recognized honor in independent book publishing, now in its 38th year.

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