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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 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 Blues," was the subject of a bidding war. "China Blues," and her second novel, "Chasing Women," introduced Longfellow to Hollywood... a long hard but ultimately fascinating trip. ("China Blues" was reissued by Eio Books in 2012.)

When Vivian died in 1995, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. Time may not heal, but it tempers. Eventually Ki began writing again, but her subject became the moment at age 19 that informed her life... a direct experience with the Divine. She chose the figure of Mary Magdalene to tell that tale in her novel "The Secret Magdalene." Nancy Savoca, a brilliant independent film maker (winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize with her first film, "True Love") traveled all the way to Vermont to option the book as her next film.

Ki's second book on the Divine Feminine is "Flow Down Like Silver," a novel about the numinous and gifted Hypatia of Alexandria, a tragically ignored historical figure of towering intellect who searched through intellect for what the Magdalene knew in her heart.

Recently, a huge departure from her all she'd written before, Longfellow found herself writing a tale of supernatural horror called "Houdini Heart." This book was selected by the Horror Writers of America as one of a handful of books to be considered for their 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Best Horror Novel.

In the Spring of 2013 the first three titles of her Sam Russo noir murder mystery series was published by Eio Books: "Shadow Roll," "Good Dog, Bad Dog," and "The Girl in the Next Room."

She’s at work on the third and last book in her Divine Feminine series. Meant to be one thing, it's become quite another thing. Writers may think they know what they're going to write, but they can be very wrong.

She lives wherever she finds herself. Currently that’s a sailboat in Puget Sound.(less)

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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	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria 4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 751 ratings — published 2009	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Houdini Heart 4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	China Blues 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Good Dog, Bad Dog (A Sam Russo Mystery, #2). 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Roll (A Sam Russo Mystery, #1). 4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Next Room (A Sam Russo Mystery, #3.) 4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stinkfoot by Vivian Stanshall (Co-author), Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author) (Co-author), Ki Longfellow-Stanshall (alternate author name) 4.69 of 5 stars 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sir Henry At Rawlinson End by Vivian Stanshall, Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1980	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Ki Longfellow liked Marylynm's review of The Secret Magdalene:

" 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 »

May 15, 2013 01:33am · see review

Ki Longfellow liked Tobias's review of The Secret Magdalene:

" 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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Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
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May 02, 2013 08:37am

Ki Longfellow liked Anthony Devedonio's review of The Secret Magdalene:

" 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 "

Apr 06, 2013 11:56am

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Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
by Vivian Stanshall

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Shadow Roll (A Sam Russo Mystery, #1).
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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.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

tags: desire, heart, love, need, poetry, sacrifice

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“What comes, is called.”
― Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria

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“How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.”
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