Temptation and the Gambler Cover Art Explanation

For my background, I needed an alleyway strewn with the bodies of a gang of thugs who'd just lost a street fight. But AI doesn't "get" "strewn." Look how neatly it organized the thugs. Or "thugs" really, these look more like crime victims than criminals. But at least it got "alley" down cold.

Since I had already published this story on Amazon, I already had a cover I could have used, but I didn't like it. Here it is:

Really, just a generic erotica cover based on an image from Deposit Photos. Doesn't really say anything about the characters at all. I did use GIMP to enhance the woman's butt. I'm not proud of that... or ashamed. It is what it is.

The artwork was just too generic, I wanted art that said something about the characters other than "horny." Nothing wrong with "horny" but it's kind of the ground floor for erotica. So I went to Civitai and found some Loras that were designed for creating superhero avatars, whcih was good enough for what I wanted (costumed crimefighters, no superpowers, like Batman. Unless you consider being a billionaire a superpower, which it definitely is). 

But I have been working with AI long enough to know its limitations, and one of its limitations is it doesn't do a good job of having avatars interact, unless you want one of the poses Loras are trained on, like blowjobs, fucking, doggie style, etc. 

Sometimes AI art programs will fuck things up even if you DO ask for a standardized sex position. Although to be fair, this one is based on an image-to-image original, rather than a text prompt. But I can ASSURE you that the original image looked NOTHING like what I got. The hilarious part is the way the woman's face came out PERFECT.

So in the interests of not spending days working on getting a romantic clench right for my cover (as I did for the cover of "The Taking of Shining Cloud")

Yeah, I had some issues with the cover of "Shining Cloud."

 I decided to make the superhero images seaparate images and layer them side by side on top of the background art. First I made the Temptation image. I was looking for an image of a Goth girl dressed for clubbing, as that was part of Temptation's crime fighting technique: she dressed like a sexy club kiddie who's been out clubbing and walked unsteadily through dark alleys in the bad part of town, luring rapists and gangs into attacking her, then dispatching them with her crime-fighting tools. Civitai's Lora had little or no problem handling this request, it came up with several usable images in just two or three iterations. Here's one of the better ones:

I also requested "curvy" in my prompt. Love the expression on this one. This is typical of the results I got.

Next I asked for images of The Gambler. Once again, plenty of images to work with from just a few iterations. Here's a nice one:

"Hi ladies! Anyone wanna check out the lucky shamrock in my fly?"

So I picked out two figures and mounted them in layers over my alleyway pic. This had the fortunate effect of blocking out the mass of the too-symettrically stacked bodies, so they suspicious symmentry was hidden. I reused the text from the original cover art because I think the subhead is fire. Here's what I came up with.

And so here we have it. Hopefully it will result in millions, perhaps billions, in sales. We shall see! You can get the book by clicking here, or on the pic.

Happy Valentine's Day 2026!

Here's some eye candy!

Image source: "The St. Valentine's Day Assacre Part 1" starring Jynx Maze (being opened) and Ramon Nomar (opening gift). I think it may have originated on Brazzer's but a search there didn't turn up any hits. You can find the video now on TNAflix.com by clicking here.

And a nice romantic gift. It's FREE! Just click on the pic or click here and go to Smashwords and grab this fun story. And have a great holiday!

Just in Time for Valentine's Day "Temptation And The Gambler" is Now Available on Smashwords*

You can buy this bad baby right now just by clicking here or on the pic.
 

"Temptation and the Gambler is now available on Smashwords for just $2.99! It's a 18K word+ consensual BDSM romance about two crime fighters who meet cute the crime fighter way, then enjoy one another in all sorts of distinctly non crime fighterly ways! HEA and everything! Enjoy a nice kinky romantic fantasy on Valentine's Day! Here's da blurb:

Sarah is a proud feminist who spends her days working at a womens' shelter and her evenings as a counselor at a local hospital for victims of violence, domestic and otherwise. But she is a woman of many layers and secrets. Late in the evening, she becomes Temptation, a costumed vigilante heroine who cruises the alleys of her city looking for the men who wreak destruction on women and delivering to them pain, punishment and sexual humiliation. But that's just one secret of Sarah's, and to her, the least shameful secret. Her truly shameful secret is that she is a sexual submissive who desires nothing more than to submit sexually to a man, to be bound and gagged and used like a sexual animal – if and only if she can find a man who is worthy of her, and if she can overcome her shame over her decidedly non-feminist sexual feelings. Rod is a billionaire, a true alpha male, a born gambler who is not only lucky but smart. Worth several billion dollars from his Wall Street gambles, he now finds no joy in financial gambling, and so gambles with higher stakes – his very life, stealing out into the streets of the city to become the Gambler, a costumed vigilante who stops criminals with nothing but his fists and his courage. Handsome, fit and charismatic, Rod can have any woman he wants, but none of them seems a match for him. His closet full of bondage gear and toys has been used only for prostitutes who know how to play with him and his toys, but don't have what it takes to ignite his heart. Sooner or later, Temptation and the Gambler had to meet. And they did, in a dark alley. The sexual and emotional fireworks will result from that fateful encounter? This novella is just shy of 19,000 words long, and is part of the Basic Income/Morality Laws world.

*Temptation and the Gambler has already been published on Amazon, so if you got it there, don't bother buying it here, it's the same story.

The Granfalloon of Pantaloons

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The Look of Lust

"He's done so well... now if only he  thinks to gag me, things will be PERFECT."

Masters call this "the found the G-spot look."

Image source: Kink.com video 102116 "Stolen Goods" starring Riley Evans (looking disturbed) Jessie Rogers, Chanel Preston and Mark Davis (getting handsy).

A Little-Known Fact!

It's a little-known fact that in the 1930s, home vibrators came only as wall units, pulled as much electicity as a furnace, and required bondage for the user's safety, given how hysterical women got in those bygone days!

 

Image source: Bondagecage.com video "O-girl: The Return of the Black Minx" starring Christina Carter (strapped in) Sasha Monet (leering) Dee Williams and Jewel Evans (not pictured).

Snow Removal Done Oh, So Deliciously Wrong

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