Matt Dinniman Wrote ‘Operation Bounce House’ and ‘The Inevitable Ruin’ at the Same Time — And He Shares How! [Exclusive] ...Saudi Arabia

If you’ve not read any of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman yet, then you need to start right now. This LitRPG book series brings dystopian sci-fi into a video game world, full of AI, showrunners, and events wilder than your imagination can take you.

Of course, with seven books out already and the eighth on its way on May 12, 2026, that’s a lot to work through. Operation Bounce House is a great place to start if you want to get an sense of Dinniman’s writing. It’s a standalone novel — and yes, there will only be one — and you can get it right now.

Initially self-published, Dinniman has been jotting down ideas for novels for years. In fact, the idea for Operation Bounce House came long before the novel series that has put him on the map. 

“I have a list that I started literally when I was in middle school, and the idea for Operation Bounce House is a sentence: settlers being evicted by people on Earth, who aren’t really there. I think that’s what it said. That idea is older than Dungeon Crawler Carl, which was a sentence: Man stuck on Alien game show.”

As the success of Dungeon Crawler Carl grew, publishers started to take note. Penguin Random House was the one to get the rights to the physical copies, and it’s because of them that the standalone novel on another planet became a fully-fleshed out novel, “I didn’t actually write it until the beginning of 2025. When I sold [the physical version of] Dungeon Crawler Carl to Penguin Random House, they asked if I had any other ideas, and my agent and I talked about a few different ideas. They wanted Operation Bounce House, so I wrote that concurrently with Dungeon Crawler Carl7.”

Writing them at the same time wasn’t an easy thing to do. For those who don’t know, he’s a pantser rather than a planner, so he had to figure out how to write the two novels together.

He continued sharing with Parade, “I could never write in the same session. I would go to a coffee shop and write one book, and then I’d go to a completely different location to write the next book.” It was something he never thought would be possible, but he made it work.

That being said, he’s always amazed by others who can write multiple books at the same time, without using his own tricks, “I have a lot of friends who write three, four, five different books at the same time, and it blows my mind.”

If you can’t sit down and read the books, the audio version is available. Now, this is one of my favorite ways to consume books, as I walk dogs a lot — three huskies in this house! — but this is also a world of creativity that is perfect for the audio experience. 

It turns out that the audio sales contribute in a large amount to the total purchase, much more than most other books, and yet, readers will still buy the physical copies. One of the best things is that platforms are making it easier to read and listen at the same time. Spotify’s latest Page Match system, which allows people to seamlessly switch between the audio version and their physical or digital books. It’s the first system of its kind, available on both iOS and Android, and is more than worth checking out!

“This style of story — LitRPGs — have always worked for audio. I always knew that the audiobooks would be a higher percentage of sales, especially with the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. I would say more than 90% of readers have listened to the audio, which is a really high number, but they’ll still buy the physical copies because they want show trophies.”

It makes sense that the audiobooks are flying off the virtual shelves. Jeff Hays does the voices for everyone in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series — yes, including the female voices — and that’s not about to change. He does a phenomenal job, with Dinniman sharing his own praise, saying, “He’s very good at what he does, and he’s naturally talented. He reads it and understands what is happening, and he has a million voices stuck in that crazy little head of his.”

Hays is no stranger to doing different accents, either, which is something Dinniman now has fun thinking about. He wants to make things as difficult as possible, “I do it to f–k with him all the time,” making their friendship clear.

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The eighth book is going to have a character who only speaks Danish, and that means some difficult words. While the Icelandic character from previous books was one thing, Dinniman went a step further to test Hays, sharing, “I asked my Danish friends for some really difficult phrases for Americans just to mess with him, and he’s killing it!”

It turns out that it’s not just his friends who help with the development of the story. As mentioned, Dinniman was a self-published author first, and one of the ways he built his community of loyal readers was through his Patreon account. Via that, readers get the opportunity to vote on parts of the book. This is never going to be the arc or the things Carl or Princess Donut do or say, but readers can help to shape some of the outside elements, such as the items in their gift boxes.

I had to ask how that worked considering he’s a panster, and it turns out that it’s one of his favorite parts of the process, “I have to sit down and think about how I am going to get myself out of that…It’s why Carl is as insane as he is, because they come up with these solutions that make sense to the world and the story.”

For those who are wondering, there is an end goal in sight, and it’s coming a little sooner than you may think. After all, we know there are 18 floors to the dungeon, and A Parade of Horribles, which is out on May 12, 2026, will start them on the 10th floor with the focus on moving to the 11th.

You would think that there are a good five or six more books to go, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong, as there is a plan to stop at 10. One of the reasons he said there were 18 floors was to give him an end point, as he could have just kept writing.

It’s not that he is bored of writing this series, but there is so much more that he wants to write, “Operation Bounce House is a good example. I had so much fun writing it, and it’s another story in another world that’s not connected. There’s only so many books I can write in a lifetime, and I want to write so many, so I want to be able to step outside of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series.”

I did get confirmation that Operation Bounce House will remain a one-book story, and that there is a chance that another standalone story could be on its way, and it could delve into another genre, “My No. 1 priority right now is Dungeon Crawler Carl 9, but I will probably have another standalone. We’re not sure exactly which one to do right now. I might try something more into fantasy rather than the sci-fi realm, but we’ll see.”

For now, readers (and listeners!) can prepare to get ready for the eighth book in the series, A Parade of Horribles, and we’ll continue to keep an eye out for the latest news and updates about other releases.

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