fictioneer

American  

[fik-shuh-neer] / ˌfɪk ʃəˈnɪər /

noun

1. a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.

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Usage

What does fictioneer mean? A fictioneer is a fiction writer, especially one who puts out a lot of work considered mediocre or low quality.The word fictioneer is most often applied to writers who churn out the kind of stories usually found in cheap, mass-market paperbacks, especially ones that snobs consider lowbrow “genre fiction,” such as romance novels, mysteries, or science fiction. However, it can also be used in a more neutral way as simply another (more fun) word for a fiction writer.Example: Many highly regarded novelists started their careers as fictioneers who wrote under pseudonyms and published anything they could to scrape together a living.

Other Word Forms

• fictioneering noun

Etymology

Origin of fictioneer

First recorded in 1920–25; fiction + -eer

Example Sentences

The licences will allow fans to publish authorised stories set in the different fictional universes as ebooks for the Kindle, with royalties paid to both the original author and the fan fictioneer.

From The Guardian

He's also a prolific blogger; an essential criteria for today's ambitious pulp fictioneer, when your readership are only ever a tweet away.

From The Guardian

We can see by the time which he permitted to elapse between the first and second parts of his great romance how careful Cervantes was not to hazard his well-won reputation upon an unfortunate sequel, and the fictioneer of our own time, harassed by a public greedy for sensation and flushed by momentary success, might well turn to him for an example in this respect.

From Project Gutenberg

But Burroughs, that dauntlessly prolific pop fictioneer, had something more important on his mind when he dreamed up Tarzan: nothing less than the creation of a mythic figure who would encapsulate the Edwardian age's anguish over the way the virtues of the primitive life were being trampled by the irresistible march of industrialism and imperialism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The author, whose collected works probably do not contain a four-letter word, changed '"bloody" to "ruddy" and dropped his last name for fear his bosses would regard an off-hours fictioneer as "not a serious person."

From Time Magazine Archive