How to Write Your Life: Confessions of an Award-Winning AI Memoirist
Luke Stoffel
Prompts, house rules, templates, and a step-by-step publishing and launch plan in “How to Write Your Life,” a guide built like a video game.
NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 29, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Luke Stoffel, the award-winning author who openly writes with AI, has released “How to Write Your Life: Confessions of an Award-Winning AI Memoirist” (Cinderly Press, October 27, 2026), a practical guide to writing your life story with artificial intelligence (AI) while keeping your own memories, your own voice and the final call on every line, then publishing it, launching it and finding readers yourself.
Stoffel’s memoir, “How to Win One Million Dollars and Shit Glitter,” is the first openly AI-assisted memoir to win a major U.S. book prize, a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, and the only memoir on James Yu’s list of AI-assisted literary winners. In the new book he shares exactly how he works: the house rules he pastes into every chat, how he talks his drafts out loud and lets the machine handle the spelling, and the prompts that catch robotic phrasing before a reader does.
“The machine makes more of whatever you bring it,” Stoffel writes. “You bring art, you can make art.” On keeping your voice: “Your voice doesn’t live in your keyboard. It lives in your mouth.”
Across publishing this year, writers have faced accusations of hidden AI use. Stoffel took the opposite route: he said so on the page, and his memoir won. He has been talking about writing with AI in public ever since. He wrote about it for Fortune magazine, and the essay was picked up by Yahoo and MSN. Deutsche Welle featured him in its Frankfurt Book Fair coverage, both online and on its culture show Euromaxx. Publishing expert Jane Friedman quoted him on how book awards should handle AI.
The book is built like a video game. Readers hit Press Start, pick a character and play through eleven levels mapped to the Hero’s Journey, from finding the story worth telling to drafting, revising, publishing and launch day. Most levels include ready-to-use prompts, and the back of the book collects every one in a Spell Book, alongside a Strategy Guide to publishing sites and Cheat Codes worksheets. Readers unlock templates and workshop pages at https://lucasstoffel.com/how-to-write.
INSIDE, READERS LEARN:
• How to write a memoir with AI without handing over their voice
• How to use a chatbot to interview them, fix spelling and organize chapters
• How to self-publish with their own ISBNs on Amazon KDP and IngramSpark, query agents and land press
• How to launch: early reviews, promos, awards and the trolls
Writing with AI is one of the most divided questions in publishing right now, and Stoffel has never hidden where he stands. The same questions came up in every interview: how he does it, where he draws the line, and whether the book is still his. How to Write Your Life is his full answer, and it grew out of the essays and interviews below.
• Fortune magazine: “Confessions of an award-winning AI memoirist” (July 22, 2026): https://fortune.com/2026/07/22/award-winning-memoir-author-ai-detector-publishing-hypocrisy/
• DW Euromaxx: “The AI controversy shaking up the publishing world” (October 9, 2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WJry_Ui0Qg
• Deutsche Welle: “Author or artificial intelligence? Literature in crisis” (October 9, 2026): https://www.dw.com/en/author-or-artificial-intelligence-literature-in-crisis/a-79618610
• Jane Friedman: “Writing & Publishing Awards Have Difficult Decisions to Make Regarding AI” (May 2026): https://janefriedman.com/imho-writing-publishing-awards-have-difficult-decisions-to-make-regarding-ai/
• Iowa Public Radio, Talk of Iowa (February 2025): https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa/2025-02-04/iowan-divulges-of-his-childhood-schemes-and-dreams-in-debut-novel
• James Yu, Award-Winning AI Literature: https://jamesyu.org/award-winning-ai-literature/
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Luke Stoffel (b. 1978) is a New York City author, GLAAD-honored artist, and creative director. His debut memoir won a 2026 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award, was named a 2026 National Indie Excellence Awards finalist, earned praise from Kirkus Reviews, and scored 9.5 out of 10 from Publishers Weekly BookLife. His writing has appeared in Fortune magazine. His Pop Art Tarot deck will be in stores worldwide in March 2027. He was creative director for Mozilla’s Builders startup program and speaks on AI and creative practice.
ABOUT CINDERLY PRESS
Cinderly Press is an independent publisher in New York City, founded in 2016. Its titles include The Easy Bake Unicorn Cookbook, funded on Kickstarter and featured in Business Insider, and The Rise and Rot of Rancid Royalty, a number one bestseller in Children’s Humor on Amazon.
BOOK DETAILS
“How to Write Your Life: Confessions of an Award-Winning AI Memoirist”
Luke Stoffel · Cinderly Press · October 27, 2026 · 200 pages
Paperback ISBN 979-8-9942529-9-4 · $15.99 · amazon.com/dp/B0HPGZ3MFR
Ebook ISBN 979-8-9942529-8-7 · $2.99 · amazon.com/dp/B0HPGLVL9L
Book page and reader downloads: https://lucasstoffel.com/how-to-write
About Luke Stoffel:
Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Luke-Stoffel/author/B07CM7CCFD
Website: https://www.lucasstoffel.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/17860278.Luke_Stoffel
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138953733
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