“All the classics in there, so I really wanted to excite fans.” “The entire studio is just one giant tribute decked out to all the popular stories to everything you can imagine by Stephen King or ‘Psycho,’” Chianakas said. “Rabbit in Red” pays homage to Chianakas’ favorite horror movie, “Halloween.” During that movie, he said, a nurse lights a cigarette with some matches and the matchbook says “Rabbit in Red” on it.Ĭhianakas also wove other famous horror movies he grew up watching inside his fictional studio. “So, it’s like the ‘American Ninja Warrior’ of horror stories” Chianakas said. The duo has to solve riddles to progress in the game and ultimately end up facing their own fears. “They say write the book that you’d want to read or write the story you would want to be a part of.”īill and Jamie end up being in a fright fest contest at a studio called Rabbit in Red, with the grand prize of making their own movie.
“It has a little bit of what I call the heavy reality, but at the same time, the story itself started on this idea of pure fun for horror fans, for fans of the movies and the books,” he said. something bad has happened in their past.”īill’s dad is murdered by a home intruder and Jamie’s uncle commits suicide. I really wanted to take these young adults on the bridge of adolescence to adulthood,” Chianakas said. In the first book, the two characters are Bill Wise and Jamie Stein.
“Rabbit in Red” is part of a series, of which Chianakas has completed two installments. The publishers like Random House, they want someone with experience who they are going to be able to sell,” he said.Ĭhianakas is gathering experience with the publishing company, which he said is helping him become a better writer by learning from other authors in the group. “The challenge, of course, it’s like any job.
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