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Monday, March 3, 2025

J.B. Warrick The Baritone's Rival Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Two rival opera singers. 

One vampire, one human. 

Both running from the past. 


The Baritone’s Rival

The Vampire Impresario Book 2

by J.B. Warrick

Genre: M/M LGBTQ Paranormal Romance



Two rival opera singers. One vampire, one human. Both running from the past.

Oscar Acosta’s abusive ex-boyfriend is dead, and his old vampire coven is gone. Now all he cares about is winning a coveted spot with the prestigious local opera company. His stiffest competition is Trent, an adorable fellow grad student with a linebacker’s build who he is definitely not crushing on.

When Oscar’s ex turns out to be not-so-deceased, sending several vampires to kidnap him, Oscar is forced to reveal his own vampire identity to his classmate. Can he trust Trent or should he keep him at a safe distance?

Trent Erickson is on his own with no safety net. He doesn’t have time for partying, especially not with a privileged trust fund nepo baby like Oscar. Trent’s not going to let some rich flake steal his star spot onstage, even if the guy stirs up feelings in him that he doesn’t understand.

But when he witnesses three savage vamps attacking Oscar, Trent’s own hidden history rears its ugly head. After all, he knows more about fighting vampires than any human should.

The Baritone’s Rival is a 60,000-word rivals to lovers, bi-awakening, fated mates vampire romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains an ambitious opera singer and the closed-off vampire who falls for him in spite of himself. It also has steamy scenes and the violence you might expect from a vampire story. It is a standalone novel in an interconnected series. Not suitable for readers under 18.

 

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The Tenor’s Shadow

The Vampire Impresario Book 1



One temperamental opera singer. One vampire bodyguard. Let the sparks and secrets fly.

Anthony wouldn’t let anything stand in his way.

His career as an operatic tenor was finally taking off, and he would be damned if he let some stalker keep him from his globe-hopping musical dreams. But he had made the mistake of telling his uncle about the threatening letters the creep had been leaving in his hotel room.

Now he was saddled with a muscle-bound bodyguard who was seriously cramping his love life, even if the guy did have a swoony accent and the perfect number of freckles. No matter what Anthony did, he couldn’t get rid of the stubborn redheaded Brit. Freddie just didn’t fit in with his glamorous life of encores and galas and schmoozing. And how did the man never sleep?

Freddie was there to do a job.

Or maybe a few. He had been content as head of security for the Hughes vampire coven in London. But now he’d been sent to America to keep his coven master’s nephew safe from the threat of a rival coven. He knew the rules. Anthony couldn’t find out about the existence of vampires, and he certainly couldn’t find out that Freddie was one. Plus, he had to manage Anthony’s demanding personality, and Freddie was painfully bad with people. And he absolutely one-hundred-percent had to keep himself from hooking up with the overbearing American.

When friction erupts into steamy passion, can Freddie and Anthony forge a relationship together? Or will Freddie’s secrets and the deadly vampires of the Azarian coven tear them apart?

The Tenor's Shadow is a 50,000-word MM vampire romance with a guaranteed HEA and no cliffhanger. It contains a strong-but-silent vampire bodyguard and the high strung opera singer that falls fast for him. It also contains steamy scenes and the violence you might expect from a vampire story. Not suitable for readers under 18.

  

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J.B. is a writer of MM paranormal and fantasy romance. They live in New York City, and when they're not writing they spend their time eating delicious snacks and listening to opera. If you're looking for fast-moving open door romance, fun and magic, and just a touch of darkness, J.B.'s books are for you!

 

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J.B. Warrick Guest Posts

 

Stuff About Me:

 

Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author?

 

I work in the arts and I’m a recent transplant to NYC, but I lived in Chicago for about twenty years. I love my new home city. My passions are opera (which you can tell from my books), video games, reading, wandering around museums, and eating really great breakfast foods.

 

I’ve always wanted to be an author, and although I’ve worked as a creative in theater my whole adult life, I found it hard to finish novel-length works. Way back in college, I had a short story published in a pro mag (a sweet if clichéd story about a prince falling in love with a dragon shifter who had abducted a princess – I was doing dragon shifters before it was cool!), but for about twenty years after that I didn’t really get any fiction writing done. I’d gotten decently far in a few novel attempts, usually stalling out around 20k words, but I wasn’t able to really figure out my process until November of 2023, when I finished my first full length novel. 

 

Tell us something really interesting that’s happened to you!

 

In my twenties I traveled the world working on cruise ships! I had a job with a theatrical company playing the piano for their shows, and so I got to go on several contracts. I was very lucky with my second contract and ended up in Europe for a few months. We ported in Barcelona and stopped all around Spain, as well as in Italy (Rome, Pisa), Morocco (Agadir), Gibraltar, and Portugal (Lisbon). We also had a few trips to Dover in England.

 

Honestly, I would have never gotten to see all those places without that job, so I’m very grateful. I’m a firm believer that artists need a broad range of input to create, and I was exposed to so many new things. I’d love to go back to Spain, which was my absolute favorite!

 

What are some of your pet peeves?

 

I don’t know if I’m just cranky, or if I have undiagnosed sensory issues, but I just can’t stand loud noises. I don’t mind a hum of activity – in fact, I prefer it to silence when writing. I adore hanging out in a coffee shop to get my words done. But loud noises make me want to die, and not that I’m in my forties, they also startle me for some reason.

 

Where were you born/grew up at?

 

I grew up in Massachusetts, and although I haven’t lived there in decades, I’ll always consider it home. There’s something about small town New England that feels different from anywhere else. Part of it is the geography: small town life takes on a different character when you’re surrounded by trees and hills, versus the flat expanses of the Midwest.

 

Also, everything is so much closer together! My husband says that in New England, everything is only a twenty-minute drive away. I’m sure it feels that way to him, being from Illinois. Personally, I loved the ability to shoot up to Maine to have some lobster, or up to Vermont to peep some leaves in the Berkshires.

 

 

 

 

If you knew you’d die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?

 

Listening to music, eating incredible food, hanging out with my friends and loved ones. I’m probably happiest when I’m in a cabin in the woods with a bunch of friends, hanging out around a fireplace, eating snacks and playing songs and getting into ridiculous conversations.

 

Who is your hero and why?

 

I try not to have heroes, as everyone is fallible and has the capacity to disappoint or, worse, to cause harm. That being said, you can’t go wrong with Dolly Parton. She’s a great example of a human who made a lot of money making some legitimately awesome art and then spends that money on helping others. I want to be Dolly when I grow up.

 

Describe yourself in 5 words or less!

 

Driven. Introverted. Funny. Sarcastic. Earnest.

 

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

 

Actually, I think I always have. I’ve always written music, plays, short stories, etc. There’s been a creative writing aspect to almost all the jobs I’ve had as an adult.

 

Considering myself a novelist, well, that’s different. There was definitely a part of me that didn’t think of me as a “real” writer until I could finish a novel. When I finally mastered my process and got through my first during NaNoWriMo in 2023, that’s when I started to really feel it. It solidified fully when I published my first book (not that one).

 

Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?

 

Honestly, all of them! Although I don’t think The Tenor’s Shadow and The Baritone’s Rival will be made unless vampires come back into the zeitgeist, although with the release of Nosferatu, who knows?

 

But in actuality, I think The Last of the Dark Lords has a lot of potential as a movie. It has the sweep of a fantasy epic, but the story is more contained and could live inside a two-hour movie. I love the world of Fyr, and the setting of a lush green city in the middle of an arid wasteland sort of gives Dune meets Lord of the Rings


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