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New York Times bestselling author Matt Dinniman is heading to the Crystal Ballroom at the Hilton Orlando/Altamonte Springs on Sunday, May 17, at 6 p.m. for a talk and signing to celebrate A Parade of Horribles, the eighth book in his (amazing) Dungeon Crawler Carl series. The event is hosted by Barnes & Noble Phoenicia Center, and it is sold out. In fact, it sold out pretty early, and we’re super sad we just heard about it. The store is telling people not to show up without a ticket, hoping to get in. It’s for ticketholders only, y’all. Periodt.
We asked for an interview and got turned down, which is fair; he’s a busy man, but we’re writing about it anyway because if you’re not familiar with Dinniman, you should be. And if you’re a fan, you should at least be aware that he’s in the Central Florida bubble in case you see him in line for a coffee or something.
The Dungeon Crawler Carl series is currently one of the most beloved LitRPG franchises in the world, and follows a man (Carl) and his very opinionated cat (Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chonk) as they navigate a deadly, game-show-style dungeon broadcast to an alien audience that has taken over the entire planet. It started as a self-published web serial and grew into a publishing phenomenon, with a fanbase so dedicated that it’s being made into a television series.
A Parade of Horribles drops May 12 and picks up with Carl and Donut on the tenth floor of the game show’s dungeon, where a deceptively simple set of racing challenges is allegedly masking something far more dangerous brewing on the mysterious floor below (I pre-ordered mine on Amazon already).
