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Jaw Filler in @dazed. Whoa. And also: thank you. by @maz_murray

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Preorder now available for ‘Jaw Filler,’ co-authored by Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter. 🔗

‘You don’t need dysphoria to be trans. You don’t need a body at all.’

When Detective Sean Hastings is asked to investigate the disappearance of Character, he enters the First Trans Commune in Sim World, a virtual reality community imagineered by transfluencer Kevin, and bankrolled by a mysterious tech company, VSI.

Haunted by the death of his cis gayguy college bestie and their shared diasporic dilemmas, Taylor, VSI’s token QTPOC face, sees potential in Kevin’s ability to Release trauma into the virtual world. Meanwhile, Casey, Sean’s ex, hopes Releasing will cure their Long Plague. Then femme fatale Mitchelle reappears. And the plot twists.

A pulpy neo-noir romp through the anxiously assimilated transmasculine id, ‘Jaw Filler’ asks: who is VSI, and what do they really want? Can you be your own dad? And if Character’s mind is trapped in Sim World, then where is his body?

‘It’s like ‘The Sluts’ meets ‘Double Indemnity’ but everyone is trans. I had an absolute blast.’ - Macy Rodman

‘’Jaw Filler’ instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’ - Isabel Waidner, author of ‘Sterling Karat Gold’

Stay tuned for details of the UK launch this December! 👀 by @maz_murray

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So pleased with this wonderful review by Juliet Jacques in @friezeofficial

She really pinpointed stuff that I hoped was in the work and put it better than I could say in words 🫶 love the kuchar brothers reference. And as person raised by Trotskyists I'm a sucker for a transitional demand 🚩

Read the full thing via the link in my bio, along with some other bits of press

Show is on til 15th June @focalpointgallery

Pics by @anna.lukala
Stills by @chazzamnazza_makesstuff
🎥 by @happyforyoubabes
Films by @gabysahhar and @amy_pennington_ on the Big Screen outside

#julietjacques #friezemagazine taken in Focal Point Gallery by @maz_murray

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HONK HONK CALLING ALL CLOWNS 🍌

Come and join us at @wearebardbooks on July 16th with contributors @sophiepoetry, @maz_murray, and @queerbooktakes to talk about @michelleteaz’s new anthology CLOWNS 🤡

We’re buzzing to be launching this next anthology with three unreal UK-based authors so don’t miss it!

Tickets at the link in our bio/stories

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 by @maz_murray

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NEXT WEEK at @princecharlescinema, Funeral Parade is proud to present BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Russ Meyer’s camp classic about a groovy all-girl rock band trying to make it in sleazy Hollywood 🎶🌸💋

Hailed by John Waters as “a classic” and “ahead of its time”, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an outrageous send-up of showbiz melodramas, as well as barbed satire of the “Swinging Sixties”.

With intro from artist, filmmaker and author @maz_murray.

Tues 7th of July, 18.20

🎟️TICKETS IN BIO / PCC SITE🎟️

#russmeyer #newhollywood #vintagefashion #campclassic #1960style taken in The Prince Charles Cinema by @maz_murray

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NEXT MONTH at @princecharlescinema, Funeral Parade is proud to present BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Russ Meyer’s camp classic about a groovy all-girl rock band trying to make it in sleazy Hollywood 🎶🌸💋

Hailed by John Waters as “a classic” and “ahead of its time”, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an outrageous send-up of showbiz melodramas, as well as barbed satire of the “Swinging Sixties”.

With intro from artist, filmmaker and author @maz_murray.

Tues 7th of July, 18.20

🎟️TICKETS IN BIO / PCC SITE🎟️

#russmeyer #newhollywood #vintagefashion #campclassic #1960style taken in The Prince Charles Cinema by @maz_murray

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NEW SUBSTACK POST 💗 Presenting Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 7th July for @funeralparadepresents @princecharlescinema 💗 intro to a related series on Fake / Fictional Pop Stars 💗 general updates and news - link in bio 🔗 by @maz_murray

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This July, Funeral Parade is proud to present BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, Russ Meyer’s camp classic about a groovy all-girl rock band trying to make it in sleazy Hollywood 🎶🌸💋

Hailed by John Waters as “a classic” and “ahead of its time”, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is an outrageous send-up of showbiz melodramas, as well as barbed satire of the “Swinging Sixties”.

With intro from artist, filmmaker and author @maz_murray.

Tues 7th of July, 18.20

🎟️TICKETS IN BIO / PCC SITE🎟️

#russmeyer #newhollywood #vintagefashion #campclassic #1960style taken in The Prince Charles Cinema by @maz_murray

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Second print run of Jaw Filler is out! You can buy mine and @charliedurian_ novel via @montezpress (link in bio) or any good bookshop if you harass them enough 🫶

Don’t just take my word for it, here’s some wonderful blurbs from the best and brightest in the biz (continued when u swipe cus i love em all)

‘Jaw Filler instantly joins the canon of outlier literature: jaw-dropper, more like.’ @isabelwaidner

‘There’s something faintly Brazil about Jaw Filler: wilful and breakneck, self-aware yet never cynical, paranoiac but always coyly – unarguably – plausible. Calling it a pastiche would be stupid. To do so would overlook not only the ravenous delight Jaw Filler takes in the melange of its genre conventions, but also, more importantly, its surgical commitment to grounding a narrative in what I can only succinctly describe as genocide-reality. Murray & Markbreiter have achieved the extremely contemporary and impossible to falsify: true camp darkness.’@nodollsbutaprayerwheel_ 

‘Jaw Filler strikes a rare and clever balance: it lampoons its genre while flawlessly exemplifying it. Filled with femme fatales, hard-boiled detectives, and corrupt corporate supervillains, Charlie and Maz have crafted an immersive, twisting neo-noir that surprises to the very last word. Hilarious as it is riveting, Jaw Filler exploits the most exciting themes of the classic crime thriller, like mistaken identity and lovers’ scorn, and applies them to contemporary queer life in a way that feels surprisingly natural and profound. It’s like The Sluts meets Double Indemnity but everyone is trans. I had an absolute blast.’ @macyrodman

‘Maz Murray and Charlie Markbreiter’s Jaw Filler is a sharp, satirical neo-noir that blends pulp detective tropes with the surreal textures of online trans culture, skewering influencer economies, corporate DEI doublespeak, and queer assimilation while still capturing the raw ache of longing, shame, and desire. Weird, funny, and unsettling.’ @peaeldridge

‘With Jaw Filler, Charlie Markbreiter and Maz Murray offer a searing, noir-flavored lens into the world of terminally online guys and our insecurities, fantasies, and wild imaginations of ourselves and each oth by @maz_murray

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Come and see 'PLOT HOLE' Maz Murray ft. Bri Leung & Munesu Mukombe on 2/6/26 @ The Divine, Dalston.

You don't want to miss it.

Tickets in the bio <3 by @maz_murray

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Hardboiled detective noir taken into the 21st century - "The Sluts meets Double Indemnity" - 'Jaw Filler' is published by @montezpress and co-authored by @maz_murray and @charliedurian_, and is our May pick for Book of the Month. Off to our subscribers today (sans slug of bourbon), it and other small press fiction titles like it can be yours by signing up to become a subscriber today: https://www.republicofconsciousness.com/store by @maz_murray

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Post May Day substack - it’s called SENSITIVITY READER and it’s fiction - something I revisited from a few years back/a quainter time. The melancholy works a bit better now i think!
Plus - general updates 🗓️💌📈
Link in bio / stories

Image is from Fast & Furious Crossroads video game promo taken in Vin diesel daughter by @maz_murray

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