It's imperative that you read the description of the book on my website so you know what the book is about. I love art deco and I wouldn't complain if it looked cartoonish, almost Katz- or Lichtentstein-esque.ġ. My idea for a cover is this: a girl wearing a skirt/blouse (business/sexy, but not overtly sexy) in the shadow of Big Ben, which can look menacing, and she's surrounded by faceless shadows of figures of men looking fearful and confused. In an interview with Publishers Weekly, writer David Schow described potboilers as fiction that '.stacks bricks of plot into a nice, neat line'.An ebook cover design, for a novel which is commercial suspense fiction / upmarket women's fiction.I don't mean sitting on a beach reading the latest potboiler, a fine form of relaxation but not exactly mind-expanding.' In the late 1990s, American author and newspaper reporter Stephen Kinzer referred to potboilers in this derogatory sense: 'If reading and travel are two of life's most rewarding experiences, to combine them is heavenly.In an early-1980s Time review of a book by Andrew Greeley, the author called his novel Thy Brother's Wife a '.putrid, puerile, prurient, pulpy potboiler'.Lewis Carroll, in a letter to illustrator A. B. Frost in 1880, remarks that Frost should spend his advance pay from his work on Rhyme? & Reason? lest he be forced to 'do a 'pot-boiler' for some magazine' to make ends meet.Through it O'Neill latched on to a perennial source of income, but the promise of his youth was essentially squandered on a potboiler.' Jane Scovell's Oona: Living in the Shadows states that '.the play was a mixed blessing.In 1854 Putnam’s Magazine used the term in the following sentence: “He has not carelessly dashed off his picture, with the remark that ‘it will do for a pot-boiler’”.

'In the more elevated arenas of artistry such a motive.was considered deeply demeaning.' If a serious playwright or novelist's creation is deemed a potboiler, this has a negative connotation that suggests that it is a mediocre or inferior-quality work. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp fiction, and potboiler films may be called 'popcorn movies.'

A potboiler or pot-boiler is a novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work of dubious literary or artistic merit, whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses-thus the imagery of 'boil the pot', which means 'to provide one's livelihood.' Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks.

The Boiler Plot by Emily McDaid