Watch Party for Matt Dinniman Online Author Talk

Name: Watch Party for Matt Dinniman Online Author Talk
Start: 2026-06-11T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-11T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 210 W Green Street, Urbana, IL, United States, Illinois 61801

Schedule

Thu Jun 11 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

210 W Green Street, Urbana, IL, United States, Illinois 61801 | Urbana, IL

Come view Matt Dinniman's online author talk with other Crawler fans!
Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) Dungeon Crawler Carl series, will chat online about his latest book. Get together to watch the interview and discuss the newest book, A Parade of Horribles. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon.
Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.
Ignore those strange glitches that are occurring with increasing frequency. Don’t listen to those whispers about what’s happening on the mysterious eleventh floor, something the system AI calls A Parade of Horribles. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”
Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.
Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.
So Carl is planning a party of his own. It’s a plan so dangerous, so insane, he can’t even consult his friends lest the AI put a stop to it. Because if it goes wrong, it’s not just the end of Carl and Donut. No. The stakes are higher than they’ve ever been.
About the Author: Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series, along with several other books about the end of the world. He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in one band.
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Can't make the watch party? Register for the online talk here: https://libraryc.org/urbanafreelibrarydemo/168631
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