Ki Longfellow (born Baby Kelly, formerly Pamela Kelly; December 9, 1944 - June 12, 2022) was an American novelist, playwright, theatrical producer, theater director and entrepreneur with dual citizenship in Britain. She is best known in the United States for her novel ''
The Secret Magdalene
''The Secret Magdalene'', American writer Ki Longfellow's third book, was published in 2005. The historical novel presents a different view of events chronicled in the New Testament, specifically the ministry of Jesus Christ and his relationship ...
'' (2005). This is the first of her works exploring the divine feminine. In England, she is likely best known as the widow of
Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper ...
, the late musician, lead singer of the
Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band or The Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelia with surreal humour and avant-garde a ...
, songwriter, author, radio broadcaster and wit.
The first of her novels to be published, ''China Blues'' (1989) and ''Chasing Women'' (1993) are mysteries and thrillers. In April 2013, the first of her ''Sam Russo Mysteries'' was published, part of a
noir series set in and around New York City in the late 1940s.
The fourth in the ''Sam Russo Mysteries'' was published in 2015. ''Walks Away Woman,'' about a neglected
Arizona
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housewife walking out into the
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Ariz ...
to die, was published in December 2013.
On January 26, 2018, Ki's memoir of her husband,
''The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art'', illustrated by Ben Wickey, was published.
Early life and education
Longfellow was born as Baby Kelly on December 9, 1944, on
Staten Island, New York
Staten Island ( ) is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located in the city's southwest portion, the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and ...
to Andrea Lorraine Kelly, who was barely sixteen years old (born November 17, 1928). The young mother finally named the child "Pamela" when required to by the
US Vital Records Office, then put her baby in
foster care
Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home ( residential child care community, treatment center, etc.), or private home of a state-certified caregiver, referred to as a "foster parent" or with a family ...
while she worked at many jobs during the last of the
war
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years. When the infant Pamela contracted
pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli. Symptoms typically include some combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and difficulty breathing. The severit ...
, she was removed from the foster home. The girl was taken in by a relative of her mother's father. Pamela was removed from this "home" when it was discovered this relative's husband was abusive. Pamela was never told about her biological father until she was 27; she was told only that he was Native American but never learned his name.
Within two years Kelly, briefly assuming care of her child, left New York to resettle in
Marin County, California
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, near her older married sister, Rosemarie Anderson. In Marin, Anderson cared for Pamela, until she left for
Samoa
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, then to
Texas
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with her own child and new husband, recently returned from World War II. She turned the girl back to her mother.
Kelly met and married a
US Navy
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sailor named Clifford Longfellow, claiming Pamela again at the age of four. He adopted her and she took his surname. Over the next several years, the family moved frequently, as he was assigned to New York's
Brooklyn Navy Yard
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, Hawaii's
Pearl Harbor
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,
Mare Island
Mare Island ( Spanish: ''Isla de la Yegua'') is a peninsula in the United States in the city of Vallejo, California, about northeast of San Francisco. The Napa River forms its eastern side as it enters the Carquinez Strait juncture with the ...
and
Long Beach
Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California.
Incorporat ...
in California, and
Norfolk Naval Base
Naval Station Norfolk is a United States Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, that is the headquarters and home port of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Forces Command. The installation occupies about of waterfront space and of pier and wharf space of the Hamp ...
in
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...
. Due to frequent moves, Longfellow attended a different school for each grade except the years spent on
Oahu
Oahu () ( Hawaiian: ''Oʻahu'' ()), also known as "The Gathering Place", is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands. It is home to roughly one million people—over two-thirds of the population of the U.S. state of Hawaii. The island of O ...
. Between duty stations, the family lived with her adopted grandfather, Lindsay Ray Longfellow, at his home in
Larkspur, California
Larkspur is a city in Marin County, California, United States. Larkspur is located south of San Rafael, at an elevation of . As of the 2020 Census, the city's population was
13,064. Larkspur's Police Department is shared with that of the ...
. Pamela relied on him for "family," and learned to enjoy his pastime of going to horse races.
Longfellow graduated from
Redwood High School in Larkspur. In her junior and senior years, she attended only those classes that interested her and cut others.
Determined to become a writer, she spent time with painters, poets, and musicians in
Sausalito
Sausalito (Spanish for "small willow grove") is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located southeast of Marin City, south-southeast of San Rafael, and about north of San Francisco from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Sausalito's ...
, and discovered what remained of the
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Genera ...
in
North Beach.
At nineteen, Longfellow had a dramatic experience which she now considers an occurrence of
gnosis
Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge ( γνῶσις, ''gnōsis'', f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman world. It is best known for its implication within Gnosticism, where it ...
.
Not understanding her experience then and suffering
panic attacks
Panic attacks are sudden periods of intense fear and discomfort that may include palpitations, sweating, chest pain or chest discomfort, shortness of breath, trembling, dizziness, numbness, confusion, or a feeling of impending doom or of losing ...
, she voluntarily entered the
State Mental Institution at
Napa, California
Napa is the largest city and county seat of Napa County and a principal city of Wine Country in Northern California. Located in the North Bay region of the Bay Area, the city had a population of 77,480 as of the end of 2021. Napa is a major t ...
. There she was diagnosed, without benefit of a doctor, as a "severe psycho-neurotic."
["Interview with Ki Longfellow"], '']Woman's Hour
''Woman's Hour'' is a radio magazine programme broadcast in the United Kingdom on the BBC Light Programme, BBC Radio 2, and later BBC Radio 4. It has been on the air since 1946.
History
Created by Norman Collins and originally presented ...
,'' English radio show, 1993
Children, marriages, family and early work
On June 21, 1963, at age eighteen, Longfellow gave birth to her first child, daughter Sydney Longfellow (who became a
painter
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and
photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
As in oth ...
as an adult). In 1964 she acted in her only movie, ''
Once a Thief'' (starring
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon (; born 8 November 1935) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was one of Europe's most prominent actors and screen sex symbols in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1985, he won the César Award for Best Actor for h ...
and directed by
Ralph Nelson
Ralph Nelson (August 12, 1916 – December 21, 1987) was an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor. He was best known for directing '' Lilies of the Field'' (1963), '' Father Goose'' (1964), and '' Charly'' (1968 ...
), in a part written for her by her close friend, the film's screenwriter
Zekial Marko.
In 1967 she moved with her daughter to New York City, where she worked briefly as a fashion model, and then as a writer for
CARE
Care may refer to:
Organizations and projects
* CARE (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation
* CARE (relief agency), "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere", an international aid and ...
. She moved to
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
, where she lived and worked for a year on a ranch on the
Blackfeet Indian Reservation as a member of
VISTA. She sailed to Europe, living for a time in
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative ...
and Paris.
Back in New York City, Longfellow worked for the promoter
Bill Graham in his Millard Booking Agency. In 1972, she met Robin Gee, the manager of the English folk band
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.) They started o ...
, and moved with him to England. They were together for five years and she became a British citizen. During this period, Longfellow wrote occasionally for English music magazines.
A year before her mother died suddenly at the age of 44 from an
embolism
An embolism is the lodging of an embolus, a blockage-causing piece of material, inside a blood vessel. The embolus may be a blood clot (thrombus), a fat globule (fat embolism), a bubble of air or other gas ( gas embolism), amniotic fluid (am ...
, Kelly told Longfellow, then 27 years old, for the first time about her biological father; he was a Native American of
Iroquois
The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian Peoples, Iroquoian-speaking Confederation#Indigenous confederations in North America, confederacy of First Nations in Canada, First Natio ...
ancestry. Kelly had met him at
art school
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but never told Pamela his name or that of the school. Longfellow never met him nor could she find him.
["Interview with Ki Longfellow", ''Discovery,'' Radio Two (England), n.d. 1990] Longfellow returned to California in 1975 and stayed there for a time.
In 1977, she flew back to England. There she met
Vivian Stanshall
Vivian Stanshall (born Victor Anthony Stanshall; 21 March 1943 – 5 March 1995) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper ...
, frontman for the
Bonzo Dog Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band or The Bonzos) was created by a group of British art-school students in the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz and psychedelia with surreal humour and avant-garde art, ...
. In 1977, they moved into a houseboat moored on the
River Thames
The River Thames ( ), known alternatively in parts as the The Isis, River Isis, is a river that flows through southern England including London. At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the Longest rivers of the United Kingdom, se ...
between
Chertsey
Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, south-west of central London. It grew up round Chertsey Abbey, founded in 666 CE, and gained a market charter from Henry I. A bridge across the River Thames first appeared in t ...
and
Shepperton
Shepperton is an urban village in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, approximately south west of central London. Shepperton is equidistant between the towns of Chertsey and Sunbury-on-Thames. The village is mentioned in a document of 959 AD ...
. On August 16, 1979, they had a daughter, Silky Longfellow-Stanshall, named after a favorite racehorse from Longfellow's childhood. On September 9, 1981 they married in the
register office
A register office or The General Register Office, much more commonly but erroneously registry office (except in official use), is a British government office where births, deaths, marriages, civil partnership, stillbirths and adoptions in Eng ...
at
Sunbury-on-Thames
Sunbury-on-Thames (or commonly Sunbury) is a suburban town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, centred southwest of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, in 1965 Sunbury and other ...
.
Music and plays
Longfellow and Stanshall wrote
radio plays and songs together. In 1980, she edited Stanshall's only book, ''Sir Henry at Rawlinson End & Other Spots'', published by
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
Towns ...
, of
Eel Pie Publishing
Eel Pie Publishing was a publishing house founded by musician and author Pete Townshend in 1977, and named after Eel Pie Island. It was part of the Eelpie Group of Companies including Eel Pie Recording Production Ltd (renamed Honorable Ltd) whic ...
. She also helped Stanshall with the script for the
film version of ''Sir Henry at Rawlinson End'', which starred
Trevor Howard
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved star status with his role in the film ''Brief Encounter'' (1945), followed by ''T ...
.
In late 1982, Longfellow discovered ''
The Thekla'', a ship she rescued and renovated with government funding. She moored it in the port of
Bristol
Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, city, Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Glouces ...
, where she adapted it as a theatre and restaurant. She hoped this would provide refuge for her hard-drinking,
Valium
Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. It is commonly used to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety, seizures, alcohol withdrawal syndrome, muscle spasms, insomnia, a ...
-addicted, husband. The restaurant failed, but the theatre thrived and also built a reputation as a music venue. In late 1984, Stanshall joined her on the ''
Old Profanity Showboat''.
In 1985, Stanshall and Longfellow wrote, produced, and staged their ''
Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera'' aboard the ''Thekla''. The orchestra was made up of local musicians and street
buskers. The show received excellent reviews. Later the popular opera was transferred to London's
West End, where it was partly financed by
Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, broadcaster, comedian, director and writer. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as one half of the comic double act Fry and Laurie, alongside Hugh Laurie, with the two starring ...
. Perhaps because the Stanshalls were not involved, it was not a financial success. In 2004, Sea Urchin Editions published the script of the original ''Stinkfoot'', with an introduction by Longfellow. In 2010, it was produced in Bristol in a concert version.
In 1986, Longfellow and Stanshall closed the theatre and moved into the Bristol home of their friend, actor
David Rappaport
David Stephen Rappaport (23 November 1951 – 2 May 1990) was an English actor with achondroplasia. He appeared in the films '' Time Bandits'' and '' The Bride'', and television series '' L.A. Law'', '' The Wizard'' and ''Captain Planet and the ...
.
Writing career
Longfellow began writing in earnest. Her first novel was ''China Blues'' (1989), a historical
thriller
Thriller may refer to:
* Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and television
** Thriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre
Comics
* ''Thriller'' (DC Comics), a comic book series published 1983–84 by DC Comics i ...
set in San Francisco's
Chinatown
A Chinatown () is an ethnic enclave of Chinese people located outside Greater China, most often in an urban setting. Areas known as "Chinatown" exist throughout the world, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Aust ...
in 1923. It was the object of an
auction
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which
HarperCollins
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won to publish in England.
Doubleday, New York published an American edition in 1990. ''China Blues'' was subsequently translated into Spanish,
Swedish,
Hebrew
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,
Czech, German, and optioned by
Richard D. Zanuck and
David Brown.
Longfellow's second book ''Chasing Women'' (1993) was a comedy
murder mystery
Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, ...
set in New York City immediately after the
Great Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange colla ...
of 1929. It was also published in England by HarperCollins Grafton imprint. Later it was optioned by an Australian team of female writer/producers. The process of attempting to adapt her novels as films taught Longfellow a great deal about the mainstream movie business.
From mid-1990, when she was very ill with pneumonia, until the death of her husband in March 1995, Longfellow divided her time between a small farm in
Brattleboro, Vermont
Brattleboro (), originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River, Brattleboro is located about no ...
and Stanshall's flat in
Muswell Hill
Muswell Hill is a suburban district of the London Borough of Haringey, north London. The hill, which reaches over above sea level, is situated north of Charing Cross.
Neighbouring areas include Highgate, Hampstead Garden Suburb, East Finchl ...
, London. She and their daughter Silky hoped that Stanshall would end his destructive habits and they could reunite as a family.
After Stanshall's accidental death in a fire in 1995, Longfellow stopped writing for a time. When she slowly got back to work, she found a new "voice" very different from the one expressed in her earlier works. As a widow, her work has grappled with loss of her husband, her difficult childhood, and spiritual yearning. She has claimed to have realised that her experience at age 19 was an event of
gnosis
Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge ( γνῶσις, ''gnōsis'', f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman world. It is best known for its implication within Gnosticism, where it ...
.
Since being widowed, Longfellow has published by the first name of "Ki" (pronounced as in "sky"), a name which Stanshall had given her from a vivid dream he'd had while living on the ''Searchlight.'' Based on her novel, ''
The Secret Magdalene
''The Secret Magdalene'', American writer Ki Longfellow's third book, was published in 2005. The historical novel presents a different view of events chronicled in the New Testament, specifically the ministry of Jesus Christ and his relationshi ...
,'' she was invited to contribute to
Dan Burstein's non-fiction book
''Secrets of Mary Magdalene'' (2006).
Her novel, ''The Secret Magdalene'' (2005) has been translated into Spanish, Czech,
Chinese
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* Something related to China
* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
,
Icelandic, Hebrew and French. It was optioned in 2014 to be adapted as a feature film by director
Nancy Savoca
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Early life and education
Nancy Laura Savoca was born in 1959 in the Bronx, New York, to Argentine and Sicilian immigrants Maria Elvira and Carlos S ...
.
The book remains with Savoca to date (2022).
Longfellow's novel, ''Flow Down Like Silver, (
Hypatia
Hypatia, Koine pronunciation (born 350–370; died 415 AD) was a neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker in Alexandria wher ...
of Alexandria)'' (2009), is about the 4th/5th-century mathematician and philosopher who lived in
Egypt
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. It is the second volume in her trilogy on the
Divine
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Feminine or
Shakti
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. As of 2020 it has been translated into French.
She rewrote the script for ''Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera,'' to be staged in Bristol, England, cutting it to two hours. Peter Moss served as musical director. (At the same time she was working on her first
nonfiction
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, a memoir of her married life called, ''The Last Showboat, an Illustrated Memoir of Vivian Stanshall, the Old Profanity Showboat, & Stinkfoot, a Comic Opera''.)
A ''Stinkfoot Showcase'' played the Thekla in Bristol on July 20, 21, 22nd and 24, 2010. This was a concert showcase of Stinkfoot's songs backed by a full band and selected cast members (including
Nikki Lamborn and Vivian and Ki's daughter Silky Longfellow-Stanshall) plus
Tony Slattery
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as narrator and singer. It attracted the attention of major press (''
The Word'' magazine, ''
Mojo
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Arts, entertainment and media Film and television
* MOJO HD, an American television network
* ''Mojo'' (play), by Jez Butterworth, made into a 1997 film
* '' ...
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. She is seeking funding to restage the original work.
The concert was to be adapted as an animated film, entitled ''The Last Showboat'' (in pre-production as of 2013), based on the history of the Old Profanity Showboat and the Stanshalls. (As of 2020 this has not been completed.)
Longfellow published ''Houdini Heart'' (2011), a horror/psychological thriller. In 2012 the
for "Outstanding Achievement in a Novel", 2011.
In February 2012, Eio Books redesigned and reissued Longfellow's first published novel, ''China Blues.''
It was optioned in the fall of 2013 as either a television series or a mini-series. In 2018, its 2013 option expired, it was optioned again as a "high end' mini-series by the production team behind
.
In early April 2013, Longfellow published her first three titles in a series of
, New York. These are in the
tradition. In 2015, her fourth Sam Russo book came out.
In December 2013, Longfellow published ''Walks Away Woman'', a novel she had written in 2002 when she was living in
, Arizona. It explores a middle-aged woman who walks into the desert, having given up on her life.
In the mid-1990s an
n team of producers optioned ''Chasing Women'' for a feature film. After working for over two years on the screenplay, this project was abandoned. In late 2017, one half of the team (now part of a production company called ''Faraway Films'') sought out ''Chasing Women'' again, having never forgotten it. In the process of optioning this book for the second time, Faraway Films discovered three other novels by Longfellow (''China Blues'', ''Walks Away Woman'' and ''Houdini Heart'') and asked for and was granted a four-book deal. All four books are now in active pre-production.
On January 26, 2018, Longfellow's long-awaited memoir/biography/art book about her husband,
: ''The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art'', illustrated by Ben Wickey.
(US)
* 1993 – ''Chasing Women'' (as Pamela Longfellow) – HarperCollins (Britain)
* 2003 – ''
'' (as Ki Longfellow-Stanshall, with Vivian Stanshall) – Sea Urchin Editions (English language, Netherlands)
* 2005 – ''
, Feb. 2012)
(being developed as a television series.)
* 2013 – ''Shadow Roll, a Sam Russo Mystery'' (Case 1) – Eio Books (worldwide)
* 2013 – ''Good Dog, Bad Dog, a Sam Russo Mystery'' (Case 2) – Eio Books (worldwide)
* 2013 – ''The Girl in the Next Room, a Sam Russo Mystery'' (Case 3) – Eio Books (worldwide)
* 2014 - ''The Last Great Pulp Fiction Writer'' - ''North Beach Girl/Scandal on the Sand'' (contributing writer) Stark House Press
* 2018 - ''The Illustrated Vivian Stanshall, a Fairytale of Grimm Art'' - Eio Books (worldwide)
'', Charisma Films, screenwriter
* 2007 – ''The Secret Magdalene'', (optioned in 2014)
'', staged in Bristol, England and London, England, (revived in concert version in 2010)