Allen R Smith is an award-winning humor and ChatGPT writer living in Oceanside, California. He is a three-time award winner for America’s Funniest Humor and has published thousands of long and short-form articles in print, the web, and on social media. Since 2023, he has been focused on producing a new type of humor writing using AI and ChatGPT.
Smith’s first book, Ski Instructors Confidential: The Stories Ski Instructors Swap Back at the Lodge was published in 2005, is in its second printing, and continues to sell around the world in book stores and online. His second book, Watching Grandma Circle the Drain was published in 2011 and has received rave reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and dozens of independent websites and blogs.
He has also contributed to Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners (2010) and The Gigantic Armchair Reader (2008). In April 2014,he published Monkey in a Pink Canoe and earned the Best Humor Award from the Colorado Independent Publishers Association.
In 2024 Smith published five books using the power and creativity of ChatGPT:
- Laughing Bytes: Mastering the Art of Humor Writing with ChatGPT
- Legends, Lies, and Looney Lore: Where History Meets Fantasy and Forgets About the Truth – Second Edition
- From Meh? to Marvelous: 12 ChatGPT Lessons to Supercharge Your Humor Writing
- Once Upon a Scandal: The Hidden Truths Behind Your Favorite Fairy Tales
- Burps, Boogers, and Broken Rules: The Ultimate Guide to Being a Kid