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.' 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. 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. 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. Eventually Ki began writing again, but her subject became the moment at age 19 that informed her life. When Vivian died in 1995, Ki stopped writing, living on Standing Room Only Farm in Vermont. ('China Blues' was reissued by Eio Books in 2012.) a long hard but ultimately fascinating trip. 'China Blues,' and her second novel, 'Chasing Women,' introduced Longfellow to Hollywood. Her first book, 'China Blues,' was the subject of a bidding war. The Old Profanity is on its way to becoming 'The Last Showboat,' film. 'Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera,' garnered a host of delighted, if slightly puzzled, national reviews. On it, she and Vivian wrote and staged a unique musical for the sheer joy of it. It remains there today as a Bristol landmark. 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. She is the widow of a British national treasure, the complete artist Vivian Stanshall.

See our wiki for past AMAs.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. If you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion.

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Houdini Heart by Ki Longfellow