POTBOILER

Mediocre novel

• *Hack's output

• Fine literature it's not

• Hack novel

• Hack product

• Hardly fine literature

• Left to seethe with desire, ultimately, in hype for trashy novel (9)

• Made-for-profit quickie

• Mediocre work of art

• Novel by a hack

• Quickly churned-out novel

• Uninspired book

• A literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot)