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  <name><![CDATA[Ki Longfellow]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[From the age of four Ki Longfellow knew what she wanted to be, a writer. Or a painter. Writing won. Born on Staten Island, New York, to a French-Irish mother and an Iroquois father, she 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 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gingergeezer.net/&quot; TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Vivian Stanshall&lt;/a&gt;, who dreamed her name was Ki. As Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, she created and sailed the Thekla, a 180 foot Baltic Trader, to Bristol, England where it became the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thekla&quot; TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Old Profanity Showboat&lt;/a&gt;. 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. &quot;Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera,&quot; garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. Her first book, &quot;China Blues,&quot; was the subject of a bidding war. &quot;China Blues,&quot; and her second novel, &quot;Chasing Women,&quot; introduced Longfellow to Hollywood...a long hard, but ultimately fascinating, trip.

When Vivian died, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. Time may not heal, but it tempers. Eventually Ki began writing again, but now her subject was the moment at age 19 that informed her life...a direct experience with the Divine. She chose the figure of the Magdalene to tell that tale in her novel [The Secret Magdalene]. &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Savoca&quot; TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Nancy Savoca&lt;/a&gt;, a brilliant independent film maker (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with her first film, &quot;True Love&quot;) traveled all the way to Vermont to option the book as her next film. &quot;The Secret Magdalene&quot; is in pre-production as of late 2009.

Ki's second book about personal Divinity is the recently published [Flow Down Like Silver], a novel about the numinous and gifted &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria&quot; TARGET =&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Hypatia of Alexandria&lt;/a&gt;, a tragically ignored woman of towering intellect who searched through intellect for what the Magdalene knew in her heart.

She is now at work on the third and last book in this series: &quot;The Woman Who Knew the All,&quot; a continuation of the life of the Magdalene after the death of Jesus. She was still a young woman. Where did she go? Who did she meet? What happened to her? Surely a being as vital as she would not stop living the kind of life a seeker lives? In this third book, Mary Magdalene comes fully into her own as a woman and as an enlightened being.

Click here for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thesecretmagdalene.com/&quot; TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Secret Magdalene&lt;/a&gt;.

And here for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flowdownlikesilver.com/&quot; TARGET=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Flow Down Like Silver&lt;/a&gt;.

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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret Magdalene: A Novel]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria]]></title>
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