Possible Clues:

• Kitchen drudge gets work to bring in money
• Poor novel, but likely to be steamy?
• Book of little merit designed to make a quick profit
• Piece of writing done merely to make money, of no artistic value
• Fine literature it's not
• Inferior art or literary work produced chiefly for money
• Work of little merit in vessel, British tanker
• Moneymaking work? Work, on reflection, British worker must accept
• Orbit pole (anag.)
• Blooper: it ruined low-quality novel