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

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.

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.