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J.Z. Murdock

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Born

in Tacoma, WA, The United States

Website

http://jzmurdock.com/

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Genre

Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

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H.P. Lovecraft, Rod Serling, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Clive Barke ...more

Member Since

November 2011

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UPDATE October 23, 2019 - Producer Robert Mitas (formerly running Michael Douglas' Furthur Films) is now attached to my project/screenplay, The Teenage Bodyguard, my true crime biopic and now YA property. Cheers!

July 2019. I am reworking my true crime biopic screenplay The Teenage Bodyguard about at 18 facing off with the maffia with a Hollywood producer. I'm also shooting my own short horror film Gumdrop, based on my Gumdrop City horror story based on a true crime. You can get my stories free or cheaper now in the Smashwords summer sale:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...

UPDATE March 2019. My true crime biopic screenplay, The Teenage Bodyguard is out and being considered by various entities including the History and Discovery channel ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 94 ratings · 30 reviews · 27 distinct works

	Death of Heaven 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Simon's Beautiful Thought 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	On Psychology With Illustration in Psychopathology via Synesthesia and Schizophrenia 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	EarVu 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Anthology of Evil 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Sarah 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Poor Lord Ritchie's Answer to a Question He Knever Knew liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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Clean For all...Water, Air, Politics, Life

Before COVID-19, we didn't have enough jobs in this country. As with green technologies which we also need, as with PROPER and SAFE air filtration which would create jobs, simply making the world a better and safer place.

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J.Z. Murdock answered Goodreads's question: Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story? I gathered my courage and peeked through the crack in the door. Oddly enough, I could see the knife as it exited the back of my skull through a perfectly placed set of mirrors until finally, darkness. My first free fall from an airplane was exhilarat See Full Answer
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J.Z. Murdock wants to read Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left by Philip K. Howard	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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J.Z. Murdock made a comment in the group Readers That Love Giveaways, Ebook Deals, and Free Books! — JZ Murdock ebooks end of year Smashwords sale topic " On sale at Smashwords along with other writings until the new year! Some completely free! DEATH OF HEAVEN is a tale of immense scope and macabre happe ...more "
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The excellent cover did not show up when I posted this audiobook on here, but it is by artist Marvin Hayes and can be seen on Amazon (Audible, and iTunes) at: https://www.amazon.com/On-Psychology-... I delivered the last half of this audiobook in a sen ...more
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“All my books are under J.Z. Murdock (with periods after the initials). Sorry for the confusion. :)”
― J Z Murdock, Death of Heaven

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“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde

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“All my books are under J.Z. Murdock (with periods after the initials). Sorry for the confusion. :)”
― J Z Murdock, Death of Heaven

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“Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.”
― Clive Barker, Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three

tags: blood, equality, horror, reading

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“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

[John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington, May 31, 1866.]”
― John Stewart Mill

tags: actual-quote, parliament-of-the-united-kingdom, verbatim

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