Griffin McElroy: The Stowaway
About the Event
Griffin McElroy joins us at Dupont Underground to discuss his new Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Stowaway! Best known for being a New York Times Bestselling author, podcaster, voice actor, video producer and gaming journalist. He's the co-host of long-running comedy podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and actual play podcast The Adventure Zone, for which he's co-authored a series of seven graphic novel adaptations. Join us for an interactive reading of his new book, The Stowaway followed by a Q&A!
Tickets on sale now, purchase link at the bottom! Tickets include a signed copy of The Stowaway!
About Choose Your Own Adventure
Chooseco is a purpose-built publishing house which brought the groundbreaking Choose Your Own Adventure gamebook series back to print in 2006. Since the series relaunch, Chooseco has sold over 16 million copies.
The original and best-known gamebooks in the world, the Choose Your Own Adventure series has been translated into 40 languages and has 270 million books in print worldwide. Chooseco has expanded the brand's presence through selective licensing. Twentieth Century Fox/Disney has licensed the film rights using emerging technology developed by CTRLMovie to allow audience participation in a theatrical release. In 2018, a license of Choose Your Own Adventure: House of Danger to Z-Man Games saw unprecedented success in the first Choose Your Own Adventure board game.
Chooseco is based in North Central Vermont. It boasts a top-notch creative team, led by CEO & Publisher Shannon Gilligan, that's dedicated to promoting literacy through immersive gamebooks based on the principles of series founder R. A. Montgomery.
Link to our history page: https://www.cyoa.com/our-history/
Link to our Read-Aloud Book Club page: https://www.cyoa.com/read-aloud-book-club/
About the Author
Griffin McElroy is a New York Times Bestselling author, podcaster, voice actor, video producer and gaming journalist. He's the co-host of long-running comedy podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and actual play podcast The Adventure Zone, for which he's co-authored a series of seven graphic novel adaptations. The final installment in that series, titled Story and Song, will be released Summer 2026. In 2012, he co-founded the video game news and criticism website Polygon, where he helped launch the hit YouTube series Monster Factory and weekly podcast The Besties. His sonorous voice can be heard in guest roles on TV shows like We Bare Bears and Big City Greens, and films like Trolls: World Tour and Mitchells vs. The Machines. He lives in Washington, DC with his two sons and his wife, Rachel, with whom he co-hosts yet another weekly podcast, Wonderful. He was born and raised in Huntington, WV, where he filmed the television adaptation of My Brother, My Brother and Me, released on the Seeso streaming comedy platform in 2017.
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