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Martin Seay

Biography

Martin Seay

Martin Seay’s fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in a variety of publications. He holds undergraduate degrees from Trinity University and an MFA in creative writing from Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina; he was also a 2005–2006 fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He works for the Village of Wheeling, Illinois, where until recently he served as executive secretary.  Originally from Texas, he lives in Chicago with his spouse, the writer Kathleen Rooney.

Martin Seay

Books by Martin Seay

The Mirror Thief
by Martin Seay - Fiction

In the 16th century, the famed makers of Venetian glass were perfecting one of the old world's most wondrous inventions: the mirror. The Venetian mirrors were state-of-the-art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world-wide. But for any of the development team to leave the island was a crime punishable by death. One man, a world-weary war hero with nothing to lose, has a scheme he thinks will allow him to outwit the city's terrifying enforcers of the edict. Meanwhile, in two other Venices --- Venice Beach, California, circa 1958, and the Venice casino in Las Vegas, circa today --- two other schemers launch similarly dangerous plans to get away with a secret.