potboiling

No doubt many people see that a few writers (mostly authors of potboiling trash, but a few real writers as well) manage to write books that actually reach a paying audience, or to sell a book to Hollywood and apparently make a tidy sum out of it, and conclude that it must be a more common phenomenon than it is.

Art and Culture 2010

We all know how that was overhyped, starting with Drexler's potboiling nonfiction book, Engines of Creation.

MIND MELD: Interesting Areas of Scientific Research 2008

Surely, Cameron is flexing his creative muscles, but the film never overcomes the nagging feeling that he's also simply going through the motions, forgoing the expert potboiling of his earlier work.

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

With access to an email address and a promise of upfront payment, you can get pretty much anyone you like—living legends, bestsellers, flavors of the month, flashes in the pan, old hands scalded from a lifetime of potboiling, weirdos with intimidating public personae—to write it for you.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

Surely, Cameron is flexing his creative muscles, but the film never overcomes the nagging feeling that he's also simply going through the motions, forgoing the expert potboiling of his earlier work.

Avatar: Notes on a Second Viewing 2009

After cold war: Is a ‘hot war’ potboiling over Poland?

After cold war: Is a ���hot war��� potboiling over Poland? 2008

After cold war: Is a ‘hot war’ potboiling over Poland? by Santosh Kumar Agarwal

After cold war: Is a ���hot war��� potboiling over Poland? 2008

Hailey brings a tad more of that potboiling blockbuster energy to his story, whereas Ferguson handles the characters with a little more finesse.

JET STREAM by Austin Ferguson (Bantam 1974) 2005

Hailey brings a tad more of that potboiling blockbuster energy to his story, whereas Ferguson handles the characters with a little more finesse.

Archive 2005-05-15 2005

The war years (spent mostly in London) were to be a period of considerable frustration for Orwell; unable to write more novels due to the inconveniences of wartime life and restrictions on publication, he was forced for financial reasons to spend more and more time working on newspaper and magazine articles which he considered potboiling journalism.

Introduction 1997