JZ Murdock is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and screenwriter, living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest's Bremerton, WA. While Murdock is a USAF Vet, he is indeed living in a very friendly Navy town.

His novel, DEATH OF HEAVEN received the 2024 NYC Big Book Award for Horror.

Tired of waiting to get a screenplay produced, he started making his own films back in 2019. The 2020 film, "Gumdrop", a short horror... has won several festival awards like "Best Horror Short", "Best Noir Film" and was a "Jean Luc Goddard Award" nominee. His latest 2021 short, a filmic poem/WWI documentary titled, "Pvt. Ravel's Bolero", has received over 60 domestic and international festival awards.

With 13 awards, "THE TEENAGE BODYGUARD", a multie-year researched, true crime drama, is about a week in 1974 when a 17-year-old was begged protection by a murder witness from the Tacoma Carbone mafia family (yes, that was a real thing). She had waitressed for them at their restaurant, Tacoma's first topless venue.

Screenplay coverages (The Blacklist, Bluecat Screenplay Contest) say things like, "This should be pursued into production", and "Why isn't this on-screen already?".From long-time entertainment attorney Michael Donaldson, "What an interesting story. Very well-researched. This kind of story is a perennial favorite. it is just the kind of story that is being gobbled up in the market right now. It is a good time for this story."

As an author, Murdock's first published book is an epic tale of horror and science fiction with a touch of Lovecraft and Clive Barker. It is a collection of his older short horror and sci-fi stories included in his ANTHOLOGY OF EVIL series. The more recently published, ANTHOLOGY OF EVIL II Volumes I and II, contain his newer works including stories he published in other anthologies with other authors, and sci-fi magazines, with the new novel, THE UNWRITTEN as Vol. II.

He would love to find a way to animate his poem of. WWI trench warfare involving Maurice Ravel and his famous piece, Bolero. While there are no funds available at this time for this project, it would make for a striking piece of animation. 

Murdock received his B.A. in Psychology from Western Washington University with a minor in creative writing that involved screen & team script writing. He was a Sr. Technical Writer for years and retired in 2016 to devote his full time to writing fiction, screenplays, and producing films from them. He has long been involved with local independent films and filmmakers.

He has been involved with local artists, writers, and creatives in the Bremerton and Port Orchard, Washington communities. Along with another indie filmmaker friend, they started the Gorst Underground Film Festival and the COVID-ended monthly showcase for local indie filmmakers, "Slash Night".

His blog, Murdockinations.com has been online since 2010 and he is on various social media platforms like Substack.

Multie-awarded horror screenplay, GRAY AND LOVER THE HEARTH TALES INCIDENT INCIDENT opens with the bizarre "untold" death of Osama Bin Laden by way of a demon attack while Spec Ops types watch in horror, and then gets weirder from there.

Other short screenplays: POPSICLE DEATH (pay your popsicle vendor kids...no, really! Don't screw around with this!), SARAH (Alzheimer's meets Twilight Zone...or is it the other way around?), COLORADO LOBSTERS (treat your employees well, they may have a deranged MIT student as a child), POOR LORD RITCHIE'S ANSWER (Don't mess with wizards when you're a pirate, it may come back to bite you from that prequel to this tale (long story)),by 

Two adaptations: DARK OF KNIGHT (by author's request) of her paranormal romance novel, and SEALED IN LIES (by another author's request) of her espionage romance novel.

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Cheers! Sláinte!