Martin Seay
@martinseay.bsky.social
Author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House 2016). Suspicious of brevity.
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Thanks to @jhiggy.bsky.social for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's "38 Books for Holiday Gifts in 2025!" www.jsonline.com/story/life/2...
38 new books for holiday gifts in 2025, from birds to Taylor Swift
A varied selection of 38 new books to give this holiday season, with a strong Wisconsin emphasis, including picks for children and teens.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Thanks to @jhiggy.bsky.social for including LEAF TOWN FOREVER in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's "38 Books for Holiday Gifts in 2025!" www.jsonline.com/story/life/2...
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A fun thing I get to do is be on the Advisory Council for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. They're holding a Silent Auction end-of-year fundraiser with lots of unique & wonderful items, including books from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social.
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Support charities and do good while you browse items on BiddingOwl.com, a non-profit online marketplace. Find unique items and support a good cause at the same time.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
A fun thing I get to do is be on the Advisory Council for the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. They're holding a Silent Auction end-of-year fundraiser with lots of unique & wonderful items, including books from @rosemetalpress.bsky.social.
Get your bid in here! new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
Get your bid in here! new.biddingowl.com/items?QueryA...
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Sunday, 11/30 from 11 am to 5 pm at Artifact Events in Ravenswood!
Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait just in time for holiday gift-giving!
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Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait just in time for holiday gift-giving!
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This Sunday, November 30th from 11 am to 5 pm! Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait at the Chicago Artisan Market at Artifact Events in Ravenswood!...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Sunday, 11/30 from 11 am to 5 pm at Artifact Events in Ravenswood!
Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait just in time for holiday gift-giving!
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8011939...
Come get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait just in time for holiday gift-giving!
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8011939...
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Watching the Detective by Deborah Shapiro from @bside-editions.bsky.social is such an excellent blend of personal writing and cultural criticism that @martinseay.bsky.social and I bought three copies: one to keep for ourselves and two to give over the holidays. Add to cart!
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Watching the Detective by Deborah Shapiro from @bside-editions.bsky.social is such an excellent blend of personal writing and cultural criticism that @martinseay.bsky.social and I bought three copies: one to keep for ourselves and two to give over the holidays. Add to cart!
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Save the date! Tuesday 12/2/25! 5 to 8 pm! Free admission to the International Museum of Surgical Science! Get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait, tamales & champurrado from Tamales Mi Chula, & 10% off everything in the Museum Store, including copies of LEAF TOWN FOREVER, which I will sign for you!
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Save the date! Tuesday 12/2/25! 5 to 8 pm! Free admission to the International Museum of Surgical Science! Get a hot, fresh Poem While You Wait, tamales & champurrado from Tamales Mi Chula, & 10% off everything in the Museum Store, including copies of LEAF TOWN FOREVER, which I will sign for you!
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So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
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"Leaf Town Forever celebrates community in a most beautiful way."
hanks to @lhertzel.bsky.social for this lovely review of Leaf Town Forever by @bethrooney.bsky.social & me & illustrated by Betsy Bowen in the @startribune.com!
www.startribune.com/art-coulson-...
hanks to @lhertzel.bsky.social for this lovely review of Leaf Town Forever by @bethrooney.bsky.social & me & illustrated by Betsy Bowen in the @startribune.com!
www.startribune.com/art-coulson-...
www.startribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 AM
"Leaf Town Forever celebrates community in a most beautiful way."
hanks to @lhertzel.bsky.social for this lovely review of Leaf Town Forever by @bethrooney.bsky.social & me & illustrated by Betsy Bowen in the @startribune.com!
www.startribune.com/art-coulson-...
hanks to @lhertzel.bsky.social for this lovely review of Leaf Town Forever by @bethrooney.bsky.social & me & illustrated by Betsy Bowen in the @startribune.com!
www.startribune.com/art-coulson-...
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"Loretta Haiku"
a typewriter haiku
by yours truly
from the Connections for Abused Women & Their Children gala:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8000161...
a typewriter haiku
by yours truly
from the Connections for Abused Women & Their Children gala:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8000161...
poemswhileyouwait
"Loretta Haiku" by Kathleen Rooney -- CAWC Sounds of Silence gala, 10.24.25
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November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Loretta Haiku"
a typewriter haiku
by yours truly
from the Connections for Abused Women & Their Children gala:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8000161...
a typewriter haiku
by yours truly
from the Connections for Abused Women & Their Children gala:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/8000161...
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at night, all cats are Gary
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
at night, all cats are Gary
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Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective.
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Deborah Shapiro, Watching the Detective.
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This Saturday, November 8 at 10:00 am at the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival! Come see Beth Rooney & Betsy Bowen & me read and do an activity from LEAF TOWN FOREVER from University of Minnesota Press!
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Leaf Town Forever
Betsy Bowen, Beth Rooney, & Kathleen Rooney Saturday, November 8, 202510–10:30am, Children’s Corner (located in the Head House) Kick off a picture perfect TCBF day with authors Beth and Kathleen Roone...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This Saturday, November 8 at 10:00 am at the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival! Come see Beth Rooney & Betsy Bowen & me read and do an activity from LEAF TOWN FOREVER from University of Minnesota Press!
twincitiesbookfestival.com/leaf-town-fo...
twincitiesbookfestival.com/leaf-town-fo...
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Flying squirrel cam
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Flying squirrel cam
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"Leaf Town Forever is the perfect book to let go of “real” and enjoy creating and imagining with a child." Thanks to Nancy Bo Flood for this amazing review of LEAF TOWN FOREVER!
nancyboflood.com/lets-pretend/
nancyboflood.com/lets-pretend/
Let’s Pretend – nancy bo flood
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November 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
"Leaf Town Forever is the perfect book to let go of “real” and enjoy creating and imagining with a child." Thanks to Nancy Bo Flood for this amazing review of LEAF TOWN FOREVER!
nancyboflood.com/lets-pretend/
nancyboflood.com/lets-pretend/
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"Love"
a typewriter poem
by yours truly
from Randolph Street Market:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7992001...
a typewriter poem
by yours truly
from Randolph Street Market:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7992001...
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Love"
a typewriter poem
by yours truly
from Randolph Street Market:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7992001...
a typewriter poem
by yours truly
from Randolph Street Market:
poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com/post/7992001...
The theme of the Halloween party was "childhood idols" & we did the assignment
Happy Halloween from Joan of Arc and the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh!
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The theme of the Halloween party was "childhood idols" & we did the assignment
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Many thanks to Amran Gowani for this hilarious haiku-filled write-up of the launch party for Leaf Town Forever last weekend!
www.amrangowani.com/harrowing-ha...
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Harrowing Haiku
Plus, check out "Leaf Town Forever"
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November 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Many thanks to Amran Gowani for this hilarious haiku-filled write-up of the launch party for Leaf Town Forever last weekend!
www.amrangowani.com/harrowing-ha...
www.amrangowani.com/harrowing-ha...
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"Everybody thinks this about their favorite celebrities, but I truly believe that Christ and I could be friends."
Thanks to @lespritlit.bsky.social for providing an excellent home for my poem-essay about Jesus!
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Thanks to @lespritlit.bsky.social for providing an excellent home for my poem-essay about Jesus!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/10/26/c...
Christ
Whatever else He is or was, I bet Jesus Christ gives really good hugs. Anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi—the year of our Lord. The year of our misery, followed by a year of still more misery.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"Everybody thinks this about their favorite celebrities, but I truly believe that Christ and I could be friends."
Thanks to @lespritlit.bsky.social for providing an excellent home for my poem-essay about Jesus!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/10/26/c...
Thanks to @lespritlit.bsky.social for providing an excellent home for my poem-essay about Jesus!
lespritliteraryreview.org/2025/10/26/c...
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Thanks to City Lit Books in Logan Square for having @bethrooney.bsky.social & me read from Leaf Town Forever at story time today & thanks to all the cute families & one adorable pup for coming!
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thanks to City Lit Books in Logan Square for having @bethrooney.bsky.social & me read from Leaf Town Forever at story time today & thanks to all the cute families & one adorable pup for coming!
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Are you scared of the ocean?
Do you wonder what is up with men?
Ever wish you could talk to dolphins?
If you answered yes to any of these, then my fifth novel Man Overboard! is for you. It now has a cover! And is available for pre-order from Gallery Books!
bit.ly/ManOverboard...
Do you wonder what is up with men?
Ever wish you could talk to dolphins?
If you answered yes to any of these, then my fifth novel Man Overboard! is for you. It now has a cover! And is available for pre-order from Gallery Books!
bit.ly/ManOverboard...
October 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Are you scared of the ocean?
Do you wonder what is up with men?
Ever wish you could talk to dolphins?
If you answered yes to any of these, then my fifth novel Man Overboard! is for you. It now has a cover! And is available for pre-order from Gallery Books!
bit.ly/ManOverboard...
Do you wonder what is up with men?
Ever wish you could talk to dolphins?
If you answered yes to any of these, then my fifth novel Man Overboard! is for you. It now has a cover! And is available for pre-order from Gallery Books!
bit.ly/ManOverboard...
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Suburban Chicagoland! Beth and I will see you at Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove this Tuesday at 6:00 pm for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social! Register here!
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Kathleen Rooney and Beth Rooney
Online Orders are processed from our Naperville store - Mon-Fri, 9a-3p.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Suburban Chicagoland! Beth and I will see you at Anderson's Bookshop in Downers Grove this Tuesday at 6:00 pm for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social! Register here!
andersonsbookshop.com/event/2025-1...
andersonsbookshop.com/event/2025-1...
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New book, Watching the Detective, ostensibly about the year I got weirdly obsessed with watching Columbo, but really about so much more. Out 11/18/25. Available to preorder on www.bsideeditions.com 🖤
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
New book, Watching the Detective, ostensibly about the year I got weirdly obsessed with watching Columbo, but really about so much more. Out 11/18/25. Available to preorder on www.bsideeditions.com 🖤
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Thanks to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social, @bethrooney.bsky.social & I got to make a Book Notes playlist for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social, including Ella Fitzgerald, Prince, Edith Piaf, Joni Mitchel, the White Stripes and more. Check it out here!
tinyurl.com/yhhycr7x
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Beth Rooney and Kathleen Rooney’s Book Notes music playlist for their children’s book Leaf Town Forever – Largehearted Boy
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October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thanks to @largeheartedboy.bsky.social, @bethrooney.bsky.social & I got to make a Book Notes playlist for LEAF TOWN FOREVER from @uminnpress.bsky.social, including Ella Fitzgerald, Prince, Edith Piaf, Joni Mitchel, the White Stripes and more. Check it out here!
tinyurl.com/yhhycr7x
tinyurl.com/yhhycr7x
I’m sorry but is the dog the hero or the villain here
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m sorry but is the dog the hero or the villain here
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Cracking up so hard at the old Western prank of baby mixing
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Cracking up so hard at the old Western prank of baby mixing