@KATENESS I don't know where it's listed here, but I can tell you how I got it. I had a household of five sims grinding away at badges; when they weren't advancing their careers (for the level 10/LTW related badges), they were writing about half the time. Four of them wrote fiction novels just to get them done quickly, and the other went for the vaudeville sequence (master of literary arts). I think the badge triggered right at 80 novels. I'd used "save as" quite often but was online each time a sim finished a novel.
So maybe there's a secret requirement for more than one sim to contribute, or for multiple types of novels? I do think that if a novel is completed offline, it doesn't count. It also might be important that the novels each have different names, although if you only have one sim writing, then that wouldn't be an issue.
What's the other one that didn't work? Sturgeon surgeon? Since you've earned that one, you'd be well within your rights to create a new sim in a new game, use MC to establish the appropriate career and skills, and try again to see if there is in fact something wrong with your game, or maybe that particular save. But that would really suck if all of those books counted for nothing.
