potboiler
Noun
Meaning
A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living.
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That is always difficult [making a repetition of an sold painting] and can only become a potboiler. (translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek)
Whether it was one of the three or four novels Pynchon had in progress is not known, but in a 1965 letter to Donadio, Pynchon had written that he was in the middle of writing a " potboiler ".
Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift -style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham.