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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk - Apocalyptic Mayhem, Lava-Spitting Llamas, and One Very Sassy Cat: Surviving the Universe’s Most Twisted RPG with Matt Dinniman
DESCRIPTION:<h2 style="text-align: center;">Apocalyptic Mayhem, Lava-Spitting Llamas, and One Very Sassy Cat: Surviving the Universe’s Most Twisted RPG with Matt Dinniman<br>New York Times Bestselling Author and Literary Dungeon Master</h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">Thursday, June 11th 2026 at 4:00 PM</h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://libraryc.org/mendolibrary/161784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register and Submit questions to the author</a></h3><p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p></p><p>Hold onto your heart-patterned boxers! Matt Dinniman, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) <em>Dungeon Crawler Carl</em> series, joins us to chat about his latest book,<em> <a href="https://son.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/mendocino/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1927796/one?qu=A+Parade+of+Horribles&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Parade of Horribles</a></em>.&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <em>too</em> normal, a little <em>too</em> simple.</p><p>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 <em>A Parade of Horribles</em>. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”</p><p><em>Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.</em></p><p>Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://libraryc.org/mendolibrary/161784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register now</a> for a fun-filled discussion you won’t want to miss!</p><p><strong>About the Author:</strong></p><p>Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling <em>Dungeon Crawler Carl</em> series along with several other books about the end of the world.&nbsp;</p><p>He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in one band.</p>
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<h2 style="text-align: center;">Apocalyptic Mayhem, Lava-Spitting Llamas, and One Very Sassy Cat: Surviving the Universe’s Most Twisted RPG with Matt Dinniman<br>New York Times Bestselling Author and Literary Dungeon Master</h2><h3 style="text-align: center;">Thursday, June 11th 2026 at 4:00 PM</h3><h3 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://libraryc.org/mendolibrary/161784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register and Submit questions to the author</a></h3><p><p style="text-align: center;">&nbsp;</p></p><p>Hold onto your heart-patterned boxers! Matt Dinniman, <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of the wildly popular (and just plain wild) <em>Dungeon Crawler Carl</em> series, joins us to chat about his latest book,<em> <a href="https://son.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/mendocino/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:1927796/one?qu=A+Parade+of+Horribles&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Parade of Horribles</a></em>.&nbsp;</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <em>too</em> normal, a little <em>too</em> simple.</p><p>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 <em>A Parade of Horribles</em>. Nobody, not even the showrunners, knows what that means. Just that the AI has ominously dubbed it “a coming-out party for the ages.”</p><p><em>Everything is fine, Crawler. I repeat, everything is fine.</em></p><p>Carl hates that it’s business as usual. The rules of this floor have taken away his agency. That just will not do.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://libraryc.org/mendolibrary/161784" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Register now</a> for a fun-filled discussion you won’t want to miss!</p><p><strong>About the Author:</strong></p><p>Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the <em>New York Times</em> bestselling <em>Dungeon Crawler Carl</em> series along with several other books about the end of the world.&nbsp;</p><p>He doesn’t really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in one band.</p>
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