Movie in the works by Nancy Savoca
Nancy Savoca, an independent film maker with two movies (Household Saints & True Love) listed on the New York Times List of the 1000 Best Movies Ever Made, is in pre-production on Longfellow's The Secret Magdalene. At the age of twenty-two, Savoca won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for her very first movie.
Longfellow's Next Books
Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria a novel was published in September, 2009. Longfellow's second novel of an intended trilogy of "gnosis" and the sacred feminine is about the world's last Pagan teacher, the 4th/5th Century master mathematician, philosopher, grammarian, Hypatia of Alexandria. She is now at work on the third and last book in this series which is the completion of the Magdalene's story in a book to be called The Woman Who Knew The All.
At the same time, she is also working on a history of American Thoroughbred Horse Racing told through the lives of nine extraordinary race horses. The working title for this book of nonfiction is Steal A Heart.
Foreign translations
All in all, Longfellow's English language books (
China Blues,
Chasing Women, and the script and celebration of her Musical Comedy,
Stinkfoot, co-written with her husband, Vivian Stanshall, frontman for Britain's
Bonzo Dog Band) have been translated into: German, Spanish, Swedish, Hebraic, Czech, Icelandic, Dutch, Chinese and French. Poland and Russia are now negotiating for The Secret Magdalene.
Writer on the Move
Longfellow doesn't "live" anywhere. She travels as the whim takes her: Vermont, Marin County, California, Malibu, California, Florida, France, England. Her first daughter is Sydney Longfellow and her first grandchild is Sydney's son Kit. She once dreamed up, found, fixed, sailed around the coast of England, and ran a theater and music venue on a Baltic Trader in the city of Bristol. Ki Longfellow is the widow of Vivian Stanshall, the frontman for the Beatle's favorite band, The Bonzo Dog Band. They were married for 18 years and have a daughter named Silky named after Longfellow's favorite race horse: Silky Sullivan. Silky has two sons: Ty Vivian, now five and Tobe Ki, one year old.
