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Joe Chianakas

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Growing up on R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, I starting writing horror stories all the way back in my junior high days. As I got older, an author by the name of Stephen King consumed my nights, and I fell hard in love with reading, enough to major in English as a college student.

I taught high school English for a decade and now enjoy a great career as a professor of communication at Illinois Central College, where I also teach fitness and martial arts classes. At the end of the 2014-15 school year, the college honored me with their teacher-of-the-year award.

Rabbit in Red is my first published novel and the first book in a horror trilogy contracted with Distinguished Press. In many ways, it’s a love letter to the horror genre and all of the great stories that kept me up late at night, but in other ways, it’s about fear, coming-of-age, and understanding death. I couldn’t have been more honored than when Book of the Day selected it as their Halloween 2015 feature.

I also enjoy writing poetry, short stories, and novels in other genres, too, such as traditional coming-of-age YA stories. As a fourth degree black belt in karate, I’ve also perfected a move that destroys writer’s block. You can learn more about me at www.joechianakas.com. Swing by and say hi anytime. I love connecting with readers and other writers, too.


Rabbit in Red – Joe Chianakas

October 31, 2015
Horror

Bill Wise has blood in his past, so he turns to horror films to wipe it clean. Jaime Stein has felt the betrayal of death, so she too takes refuge in the on-screen deaths of others. Now Bill, Jaime, and seventeen other horror-loving teens have gathered at Rabbit in Red Studios, the brainchild of eccentric horror producer Jay “JB” Bell, for the terror-filled, blood-drenched contest of their lives.    Read More >

Burn the Rabbit: Rabbit in Red Volume Two – Joe Chianakas

October 20, 2016
Horror

Bill Wise can’t wait to return to Rabbit in Red Studios–this time as a student in JB’s brand-new Horror College. He’s looking forward to learning the craft, renewing last year’s friendships, and above all, to seeing Jaime, and finally asking her to be his girlfriend. But before he even gets to see her, one of their own is violently attacked. JB goes on the hunt, and the students learn about his troubled past, which changes their views of him forever. As their project, they create ...    Read More >

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