The Smut Report Podcast

Our June book club pick was A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant. It was Holly's choice, and ended up being a very Holly book. Erin and Ingrid were less enthused. Buy A Lady Awakened: : Amazon | Bookshop | Libro.fm Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Apparently Holly is new here, because she was surprised when the teachers started murdering the students. Full show notes (inluding recs!) at smutreport.com/podcast

This week on Tumblereads, Ingrid just wanted to talk about the duology she just binged, so that's what we did.  Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

This month for book club, we're talking building tension and intimacy. And repetition. Note: This episode contains SPOILERS. Second note: This is a slightly edited / reuploaded version of this episode. Buy The Everlasting: Amazon  |   Bookshop  |   Libro.fm Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

The Smut Report team talks about what would entice us to buy special editions (TL;DR: annotations). Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

We're talking about fancy special editions today.  Show notes (with copious links and other fun things) at smutreport.com/podcast

It's Ingrid's week to host, so it should not come as a big shock that we're talking about craft. However, Holly hijacked the conversation a wee bit, so we spent a lot of time talking about historical fashion. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast .

This month, we dig deep on the reasons this fluffy romcom didn't work for us, because you can do literary analysis on any piece of media if you read it carefully.  (Note: this is a slightly edited version of the episode) Buy You Complicate Me : Amazon  |   Bookshop  |   Libro.fm Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

We are extra chaotic this week. Sorry, not sorry. Show notes (including a link to that pineapple / chicken abomination) at smutreport.com/podcast .

Holly asks Erin and Ingrid: how do they decide what to read? Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

AKA culture shifts and reader preference shifts and how they play together. Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

When family members (in romance books!) stomp on boundaries but the characters in the book shrug it off…that's not cute. But what's actually going on with these scenes? Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Are you ready for some poly pirate action? Are you also ready for lots of detail (in a good way) about 19th century naval warfare? Join the Smut Report team as we discuss Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro . Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Holly didn't have a plan, so she asked Erin and Ingrid what they were reading and they excitedly yelled about books for the entire time. As we do. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Ingrid challenges the Smut Report team to come up with 10 ways authors can ruin a kiss. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast .

The Smut Report Team talks fanfic, and honestly, we barely skimmed the surface on this one. Show notes (including a link to the infamous Ask a Manager story) at smutreport.com/podcast

Ingrid leads this month's Book Club discussion, in which we talk about whether Swordheart is a romance and get deep into the reasons Erin didn't like the bleak moment.  Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast .

Holly got big mad at a hero, which prompted the team to talk about identifying with the characters in a book. This conversation could have been five hours, but we kept it to 30 minutes. Shownotes at smutreport.com

In which the team comes up with 10 ways to ruin a black moment. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

This week, we chatted for a while about what we're reading, and then Ingrid got real nerdy about how weather can impact the tension in a book. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Welcome to the first Smut Report book club! We’ve done buddy reads before, of course, but this year we’re going a little more unstructured. Our plan is for each of us to take a turn picking a book to read—any book, for any reason—and our discussion may be based on a specific idea or it may simply be a discussion of what the book is doing on its own merits. Our first book discussion is An Extraordi...

We cannot believe that we've been Smut Reporting for 8(!) years on the blog, and 2 years on the podcast!  Shownotes at smutreport.com/podcast.

In which Ingrid embraces her brave side and leads the Smut Report team in a conversation about the words we use to talk about those parts of our bodies. NSFW. Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast .

It’s a new year, which means it’s time to look back on the past year. We were tired and found comfort in books. We were tired and struggled to read books. But no matter what, we reaffirmed how much we love to read and talk about books. So instead of a best-of list, we bring you without further ado: The Sixth Annual Smut Report Superlatives. Superlatives in list form can be found at smutreport.com/...

Isn't it amazing how some people are good at making and analyzing art?!? Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast