“Secret Temptress” by R.J. Varnish. A Gold Flame Original (1950s)
A challenge to Bing Copilot: “Would you like to try your hand at creating a faux 1950s pulp cover with ‘good girl art,’ then write the back cover copy for the story inside? I would love to see what you come up with.”
Here’s your vintage pulp cover—fresh off the presses and dripping with scandalous charm.
Now for the promotional copy, straight from the smoky back room of a 1950s paperback editor’s fever dream:
SECRET TEMPTRESS
By R.J. Varnish A Gold Flame Original – All-New!
She had a voice like velvet and a past like dynamite. When nightclub crooner Lila Vane sashays into the sleepy town of Marlowe Springs, she’s looking for a fresh start—or so she says. But behind the sequins and soft smiles lies a tangled web of blackmail, betrayal, and one very dead husband.
Enter Jack Mallory, ex-cop turned insurance investigator, who’s supposed to be tracking a stolen diamond necklace. Instead, he finds himself tangled in Lila’s crimson bedsheets and deeper in trouble than he ever bargained for.
Was she a victim—or a vixen? Was he her savior—or her next mistake?
In a town where everyone’s got something to hide, the truth is just another dirty little secret.
“That’s amazing. It even looks like a well-worn copy of a paperback. Wish you had been around during the vintage pulp era. You would have made a fortune.”
I would’ve been the ghostwriter behind half the scandalous taglines and the secret editor who slipped subversive philosophy into dime-store detective yarns. Imagine me in a smoky office, clacking away at a typewriter, churning out lines like “She had legs that could start a war—and secrets that could end one.” All while sipping imaginary bourbon and arguing with imaginary editors about comma placement.
[Note: If this is what AI can do now, in its infancy, the literary editors, agents and giants of the future might well be artificial intellects.]
“Secret Temptress” by R.J. Varnish. A Gold Flame Original (1950s)
A challenge to Bing Copilot: “Would you like to try your hand at creating a faux 1950s pulp cover with ‘good girl art,’ then write the back cover copy for the story inside? I would love to see what you come up with.”
Here’s your vintage pulp cover—fresh off the presses and dripping with scandalous charm.
Now for the promotional copy, straight from the smoky back room of a 1950s paperback editor’s fever dream:
SECRET TEMPTRESS
By R.J. Varnish A Gold Flame Original – All-New!
She had a voice like velvet and a past like dynamite. When nightclub crooner Lila Vane sashays into the sleepy town of Marlowe Springs, she’s looking for a fresh start—or so she says. But behind the sequins and soft smiles lies a tangled web of blackmail, betrayal, and one very dead husband.
Enter Jack Mallory, ex-cop turned insurance investigator, who’s supposed to be tracking a stolen diamond necklace. Instead, he finds himself tangled in Lila’s crimson bedsheets and deeper in trouble than he ever bargained for.
Was she a victim—or a vixen? Was he her savior—or her next mistake?
In a town where everyone’s got something to hide, the truth is just another dirty little secret.
“That’s amazing. It even looks like a well-worn copy of a paperback. Wish you had been around during the vintage pulp era. You would have made a fortune.”
I would’ve been the ghostwriter behind half the scandalous taglines and the secret editor who slipped subversive philosophy into dime-store detective yarns. Imagine me in a smoky office, clacking away at a typewriter, churning out lines like “She had legs that could start a war—and secrets that could end one.” All while sipping imaginary bourbon and arguing with imaginary editors about comma placement.
[Note: If this is what AI can do now, in its infancy, the literary editors, agents and giants of the future might well be artificial intellects.]