You’re invited to join a livestream Q&A with author Richard Walter and publisher Bernard Schweizer of Heresy Press. The two will discuss the writing of Professor Walter’s new novel, Deadpan and the mission of Heresy Press. The webinar will be held on Zoom on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 4pm ET/1pm PT.

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To officially register, please email info@richardwalterbooks.com. The first 5 people to register will receive a complimentary book copy. To join the event on Zoom, please reference the event conferencing details on the Facebook event page here.

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Deadpan is a mordantly funny novel that skewers prejudice and scoffs at ignorance, opposing hate with humor. Order your copy ahead of the event to ask questions with the author by visiting http://heresy-press.com/deadpan/.

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About Richard Walter

Richard Walter is an author of best-selling fiction and nonfiction, celebrated storytelling educator, screenwriter, script consultant, lecturer and retired professor who led the screenwriting program in the film school at UCLA for several decades. He has written scripts for the major studios and television networks; lectured on screenwriting and storytelling and conducted master classes throughout North America as well as London, Paris, Jerusalem, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney and Hong Kong. His new novel, Deadpan (published by Heresy Press) is available for order now. Subscribe to his podcast on Substack and blog on Medium, and follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

 

About Bernard Schweizer
 

Bernard Schweizer is a literary scholar with twelve books to his credit, plus numerous peer-reviewed articles. Schweizer grew up in Switzerland, earned a Ph.D. in British Literature from Duke University, and then joined the English faculty of Long Island University, Brooklyn. After retiring as an emeritus professor in 2019, his literary passion drove him to found Heresy Press as a haven for ambitious, outspoken fiction. As Heresy Press's publisher, he has overseen the publication of 6 books (five novels and one short story anthology) in 2025, and he has orchestrated the press's merger with Skyhorse, a major independent publisher with global reach.

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About Heresy Press

Founded in January 2023, Heresy Press is here to give oxygen to unfettered creativity and to provide a home for authors and books that dare to imagine freely, without self-censorship and fear. Fiction in all of its forms is the mainstay of Heresy Press, with adult literary fiction, satire, comedy, and speculative fiction leading the charge. Heresy Press LLC is a member of the Independent Book Publishers Association. For more information, please visit https://heresy-press.com/.