in 1969, twenty-five Newsday journalists published an erotic novel called “Naked Came the Stranger,” under the name Penelope Ashe, with a deliberately inconsist

in 1969, twenty-five Newsday journalists published an erotic novel called “Naked Came the Stranger,” under the name Penelope Ashe, with a deliberately inconsistent style—the group’s ringleader wanted to prove an ironic point that any book could succeed if it was filthy enough. (The novel became a best-seller; the hoax aspect, revealed a few weeks after its release, was a boon to publicity.) Someone wrote a hilarious oral history of Naked Came The Stranger: https://www.wnyc.org/story/naked-came-stranger-oral-history/ https://www.wnyc.org/story/naked-came-stranger-oral-history/. It's all writing and presumably SFW, as well as being an amazing story—and perhaps an amazing story about recognizing market conditions, then capitalizing on them.