J.R. Mathews, JAKES'S MAGICAL MARKET, BOOK 1

Schedule

Fri Jul 17 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00
Location

The Elliott Bay Book Company | Seattle, WA

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A contemporary dystopian elegy narrated by a cat imprisoned in a Schrödinger’s box, by the prizing-winning poet and memoirist
About this Event

J.R. Mathews visits the store for his cult favorite litRPG, Jake's Magical Market Book 1, a must-read for fans of gamelit novels, wild adventures, and stories about regular people accomplishing wonderful things.


Stacked with magic cards, meddling gods, and monsters run amok! Join the madcap fun in the slice-of-life LitRPG fantasy cult favorite, Jake's Magical Market, Book 1!

Meddling gods. A magical card system. An apocalypse no one could have predicted.

Jake is working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to bring about the downfall of civilization. But cruel and arbitrary gods from another world? Who would have guessed that?

When these cruel gods shuffled Earth like a deck of cards, nothing was in the same place anymore. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items appear scattered across the globe. And suddenly, everyone has access to a new, strange magical card system that gives them magical powers.

Jake, wasting his day slacking off in the cooler, as he usually did, found himself alone in a completely new and very dangerous world. Can he learn to survive? Can he collect enough cards and create a good enough deck to fight back against the monsters that have overtaken his former home? And why are these strange people that look a lot like elves knocking on the door of the market he is hiding in and asking to buy some of his goods?

The gods may have stacked the deck against him, but Jake just might have a few cards up his sleeve that will help him survive.

A Seattle local, J.R. Mathews worked as a public defender in King County for almost a decade before he wrote and published his first book in 2021. To his eternal shock, people started reading his book and so he has been working full-time as an author ever since.

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The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States

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