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 categories — Boy, Refracted

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.

I spent years behind glass in a Midtown office, waiting for a million-dollar dream that was never going to fulfill me. That is the thing AI can't touch. My purpose was never the job. There was a window in Midtown I used to stare out of. Glass tower, free coffee, my name finally floating through rooms I'd spent years trying to get into. And a voice in the back of my head that kept saying: Kid, this is it. Just sit here a few more years and the million-dollar dream is yours. All I had to do was...