A bit about myself and where my works are to be found today, on my birthday. I'm offering for 1 day, my epic ebook DEATH OF HEAVEN for free!
Coupon (1st 100): C3ULQ
Cheers! Sláinte!
My writings, my film works? As for my social media links, those can be found on LinkTree. Like easy ones such as JZMurdock.com or LgNProductions.com.
I have been interviewed a few times. Here's my December 2019 Slash Night Shorts interview, a monthly film festival a friend and I created, until Covid hit and killed it. We had local indie filmmakers show up and it was basically a party once a month, with films and on stage interviews and networking of filmmakers and fans.
Below is a photo of some years ago at a gallery in Port Orchard, Washington, during my author reading for my book, DEATH OF HEAVEN.
This is an interview from February 2018.
Regarding my books, ebooks, and audiobooks, they are all available at Amazon, Smashwords, and Audible.com.
Many of my covers are produced by artist Marvin Hayes.
There is more than anyone should ever want to know about me, on my website.
My films, are different...
Some are available on my TheJZMurdock YouTube channel.
Some are on my LgN Productions YouTube channel.
"Gumdrop", a short horror, is currently only available (for $1.99) on the LgNProductions video site. This is a rough film, indie film, but also a film noir/horror film shot with a nod to the film, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer". Technically, there are interesting things going on in it as well as some things often missed going on in the background.
And in part because of that, it's also an award-winning film. 17 awards to be exact: Best Noir, several Best Horror/Thriller, and others.
My biggest award-winning film is, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero". Sadly it's in limbo until the primary (and title) song goes into the public domain in January of 2031. It's a long story, I misunderstood the song's public domain status during research and production and was later surprised to find it's still owned by a company). I also started on the film when I was trying to struggle out of a year of long covid, so maybe it's not surprising I made a mistake on something. Still and that being said, it's now won over 60 international film festival awards.
Its trailer, outtakes reel, and "Wars on Earth" videos are available on YouTube.
My first narrative film, "The Rapping" (referring to a sound, not music), is available. This is an unlisted link so you cannot find it by searching online for it. This film includes NASA InSight Mars Lander audio incorporated into the soundtrack to add to the eerieness.
It is also the long version of the pieces of it used in my next and longer film. That film is, "Gumdrop", a short horror, which I have already covered. It has a trailer. Curious as the entire film lasts only 8 minutes.
I also have some short silly films like, "Below in the Dark". Or, "Happy Birthday from Dragon Boxer - February 18, 2011". A film I made for my youngest backpacking eastern Europe at the time, and feeling rather low. This cheered them up. How could it NOT?
Another favorite of mine is the short "Eagles & Crows, a fable". Yes, for a 4-minute film, I did ridiculously make a trailer for it. I had some footage of the eagles in my backyard over months and thought I should use it. One day I watched a crow harassing an eagle and thought it was funny.
I made one up of some extra video for an audio recording I made of my son and friends playing drums up at Ft. Warden Park in Port Townsend years ago. I called it, "Beyond Abbadon's Gaze. For a while I used that percussion audio for the original trailer for my film, "Gumdrop". I liked the coarse, uneven beatings and noises for the trailer. But when my soundtrack composer Andrea Fioravanti heard it (from the Italian band, Postvorta), he offered to do the music for the trailer, and I went with that.
How dumb DO you have to be to piss off an eagle? So I made a film about why that happens, why a crow would attack an eagle, and made it about the eagle trying to educate the crow. Silly film I thought kids just might like. But I don't think any yet have seen it.
Here's a couple of old pieces from Indies Unlimited:
- Meet the Author: JZ Murdock
- Article on JZ Murdock by LA Lewandowski: "Gender Bender"
I also made up some book trailers for my books. These are from 11 year ago and since I started producing films, my tastes have changed and I would make this very different today. But they are what they are and so I offer them out of nostalgia if nothing else.
Like Expedition of the Arcturus, a generational spaceship story. First published on the online, hard science fiction magazine, PerihelionSF.com
- Death of heaven (Revised 2014) / Death of Heaven (2012)
- Synesthesia (non-fiction/psychology)
- Some Notes on Field Theory and Psychology (non-fiction/psychology)
- The Conqueror Worm (1st story from, Death of heaven)
- Mr. Pakool's Spice (zombie story)
- Anthology of Evil (collection of older short fiction-horror/scifi)
- Poor Lord Ritchie's Answer (surreal horror)
- In Memory, Yet Crystal Clear (1990-dystopian America & giving one man, all power)
- Quantum History (humor-science experiment gone mad)
- Gumdrop City (story the film "Gumdrop", a short horror is based upon)
- Simon's Beautiful Thought
- Sarah ("Twilight Zone" type story)
- EarVu (horror/scifi-science experiment gone mad)
- Japheth, Ishvi and The Light (religious cult/zombie story)
- Andrew (novella that Death of heaven is in part based upon)
- The Mea Culpa document of London (medieval witch hunter story)
I have several new books out after those above. The sequel to my first collection of short stories is, Anthology of Evil II Vol. I & "The Unwritten" Vol. II. Also Suffering "Long Covid".
And that's a list of where all or most of my works are located, should anyone be interested. Have fun!
Cheers! Sláinte!
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