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Ki Longfellow

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Ki Longfellow, born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, grew up in Hawaii and Marin County, California, but ended up living in France and England for many years. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall.

In England, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to the port of Bristol where it became the Old Profanity Showboat. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. "Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera," garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. The Old Profanity is on its way to becoming "The Last Showboat," film.

Her first book, "China Blue...more


I can’t fool myself. Like any writer, I’d like to think at least a few people are reading what I write.


But as a novelist I struggle with a huge disadvantage, one that few writers overcome. I can’t write the same book over and over. I can’t even work in the same genre.


Someone who can write the same book over and over is someone who gets read. Someone who writes in at least the same genre over a...

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Average rating: 4.26 · 3,600 ratings · 498 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
The Secret Magdalene
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,611 ratings — published 2005 — 17 editions
Flow Down Like Silver: Hypa...
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 751 ratings — published 2009
Houdini Heart
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
China Blues
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions
Good Dog, Bad Dog (A Sam Ru...
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2013
Shadow Roll (A Sam Russo My...
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2013
The Girl in the Next Room (...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2013
Stinkfoot
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4.69 of 5 stars 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1980
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The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow
" This has to be the definitive portrait of Mary Magdalene as woman and myth. To my mind, it's the best ever written. There isn't another book like it. I read it like someone starving would fall on food. Not only does the author tell us a story that... " Read more of this review »
The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow
" Spellbinding. I've read so much. If I'd known about this book, I could have saved a lot of time. It's all here. The Quest. Meaning. Questions. Answers. Beautiful writing. Complex characters. Philosophy amazingly clarified. A page turning story con... " Read more of this review »
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The Secret Magdalene by Ki Longfellow
" I read this because I read Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria. I didn't want to leave that world so I closed one book and opened another. For the second time I was locked into a world I'd never imagined. But it's a world we all know. It... " Read more of this review »
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You never know, you might really like a murder mystery over hot cocoa or a snifter of brandy, all tucked up for the night. Hope so, becaus...more
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Sir Henry At Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall
Shadow Roll (A Sam Russo Mystery, #1). by Ki Longfellow
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“I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.”
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Ki Longfellow Hello there!

You never know, you might really like a murder mystery over hot cocoa or a snifter of brandy, all tucked up for the night. Hope so, because I've written three of them and just had them published. 1940s New York City. Hardboiled noir. Sam Russo, Bogart's biggest fan, and Sam's dog, Jane.

Who doesn't love murder mysteries, puzzles, snappy dialogue, cliffhangers, guts, gats, and witty dames? Or ancient Egyptian dogs who don't bark, don't drool, don't smell, clean themselves like a cat, and yodel?

http://eiobooks.com/samrusso/

Love, Ki - at the same finishing the third in that Divine Feminine trilogy I promised myself.


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Ki Longfellow Lee wrote: "Thanks for the add, Ki. About to start Houdini Heart!"

Just noticed this - goodreads has places I still don't know about. You're so welcome.


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Lee Thompson Thanks for the add, Ki. About to start Houdini Heart!


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