Chad Schimke’s novel Secrets had been slated for release by Seventh Window Publications, prior to the company going out of business in December 2015. He read at San Francisco’s Litcrawl (part of the Litquake festival) in 2014 and 2015. His short stories appeared twice in 2014, in Psychopomp special anthology issues via Artifice Comics, with 'Hallowseve' appearing in the Halloween issue and 'Midwinter' appearing in the Christmas issue. He is the founding member of the Alabama Street Writer's Group, which has been meeting since July 2012. Prior to that he self-published three works of fiction in 2012 with an average rating of 4.5 stars. He has authored writing reference articles for Grammerly.com as well as CloudReviews.com. He holds a total of three advanced degrees from the College of Santa Fe and San Francisco State University. He has a large social media following on Twitter and Blogger; including radio interviews, appearances and guest blogging. You can often find him at a gallery opening in the San Francisco art scene. He is currently working on a short story collection tentatively entitled Horrordays.