Martin Seay

Author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House 2016). Suspicious of brevity.

[Gerald Brennan 🇺🇦 @jerry_brennan]

The elusive hand-delivery @TortoiseBooks Order Fulfillment Selfie! 01016 is now in the hands of @MartinSeay. (And his name is already on the front cover.) Buy books for your friends, blurbists! You know you want to.

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

This is now the new standard for blurbers; y'all gotta step up

[Gerald Brennan 🇺🇦 @jerry_brennan]

It's a real treat when an author you enjoy reads and blurbs your book; it's even cooler when they buy a copy for a friend. Thanks, @MartinSeay!

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@RatherEarnest Absolutely!

[Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt]

Good morning Chicago. I’ll be at the South Side Lit Fest today at 2. Come out and buy some books, ask questions and enjoy a beautiful day

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@TooSpecial7442 Many thanks! Hope all’s well with you!

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

Happy anniversary, spouse!

[March Second Chanceness 2025 @marchxness]

@MartinSeay SOON

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@marchxness Hey Selection Committee, slow news day so I thought I'd ask: when would you like to have these nominations in by? Looking forward to rereading 256 essays!!!

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@mdbell79 @ClarionUCSD My second-favorite work of public art—Terry Allen's "Trees"—is right outside the Geisel Library. Check it out if you get a chance!

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@KathleenMRooney Special guest appearance by the oxypetalum

[March Second Chanceness 2025 @marchxness]

This means 256 essays, exactly half of all March Xness previous tournament essays, are eligible. YOU GOT ROBBED. PROVE IT.

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

Big weekend for Phil, our epiphyllum oxypetalum: two blooms in two nights

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@emilyjanehubb @KathleenMRooney I read some speculation somewhere that raccoons are on the path to domestication & I thought robins are WAY farther along. Regularly-watered lawns & landscaping are like their perfect habitat. They know we don't eat them. Let's do this!

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@angermonsoon Every niche is of equivalent volume, they deepen as they narrow

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

I should mention that this is in Wheeling by the Des Plaines River; we haven’t seen any in the city yet…

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

guess who’s here

[Gerald Brennan 🇺🇦 @jerry_brennan]

The Caine Mutiny, always and forever.

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@EmbracetheHag I still stand by Soul Cages. Peak Sting.

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

@ericzieg The bots are coming up from behind

[Martin Seay @MartinSeay]

Huge appreciation as always to the Selection Committee for taking on the enormous task of running this thing every year. Heroic!
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[March Second Chanceness 2025 @marchxness]

Sorry all, we had a bunch of bot voting there at the very end that mucked up the Qualtrics results. After we filtered those out, we can say with confidence that the actual FINAL SCORE for the CHAMPIONSHIP is AMERIE 631, LCD 587.