Welcome, Matt Dinniman!

We at Lit Escalates*, are excited to announce our newest partnership! After several years of confidential exchanges over text chat in our HUDs, we are pleased to reveal our newly forged alliance with none other than Syndicate Sweetheart Matt Dinniman, author of the fan favorite Dungeon Crawler Carl LitRPG series.

We are delighted to be collaborating with Matt Dinniman and ACE to level up Matt’s forthcoming A Parade of Horribles US Book Tour. Each stop is not just a signing, but an event meant to bring readers together. 

We’ve been hard at work for the past several months designing a unique, World Dungeon Level Patch for each Dungeon Floor in DCC, and these collectible embroidered patches will be sold on-site only at each tour stop. Each tour stop will also feature dedicated “Safe Rooms”, where Crawlers can meet other fans and trade patches, designed to turn strangers into friends. The patches will only be available at stops on the sold-out tour, with any unsold patches available from the venues after the event. 

Sad you missed the tour tickets? Not to worry! Joel Daniel Phillips has created a series of eleven original oil paintings, one for each level of the World Dungeon thus far revealed. Prints of these paintings will be available from Lit Escalates in limited editions of 100, each signed by Dinniman and giclee-printed on acid free rag paper. Dropping May 29, 2026, only here.

Dungeon Crawler Carl is the NYT Bestselling sci fi-comedy adventure following Carl and his ex’s cat, Princess Donut, as they battle their way through the fantastic hellscape of Dungeon Crawler World: Earth, a deathsport event broadcast to paying viewers across the galaxy by our superiors in the Borant Corporation. Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington.

ABOUT US

Lit Escalates brings literary worlds into this realm through custom merchandise and events with select sci-fi and fantasy authors  Other featured authors include Pierce Brown (Red Rising), V.E. Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue), and Joe Abercrombie (The Devils, the First Law trilogy).

*A subsidiary of the Borant Corporation licensed for operations exclusively on Planet Earth.