Erik Pedersen, The Orange County Register

Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series is one of those rare and incredible publishing success stories. An example of LitRPG, which combines elements of fantasy, sci-fi and gaming , Dinniman’s books began in 2020 as a self-published series about a Coast Guard veteran who, along with his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut, becomes a participant in a deadly intergalactic game show.

Ace Books began publishing the books in August 2024, and now there are already more than a million hardbacks in print. Here, Dinniman takes the Book Pages Q&A.

Q. Please tell readers about your new book.

“This Inevitable Ruin” is the seventh book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. Here we find Carl and Princess Donut fighting for their lives on the much-antici

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