What in the Smut? Podcast

Welcome back and Happy New Year WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Space Vampire by the alien romance queen herself, Ruby Dixon. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle found the best book news for this week's smutverse- if you have any suggestions for the Hay Festival Pleasure List submissions, fill out the form here ! With our book this week, both Kay and Elle love the new trend of...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Midnight Drop by Lee Jacquot. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start this week with another disappointing smutverse update regarding the new "Ask this Book" feature on Amazon. Our take: Don't ask Amazon. Ask your friends, booktokers, book influencers, your librarian, us... you don't need AI for this, we promise! We were unaware goin...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss The Naughty List by Ellie Mae MacGregor. WITS Smut Rating: 🐙 Despite the fact that this is only a level one on the smut scale, this week's book brings the heat. Kay found herself relating way too much with the FMC to the point where she almost wanted to put the book down, but oh boy is she glad she didn't! Elle also pictur...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Tinsel and Tentacles by Kate McDarris WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week, the smut verse makes both Kay and Elle mad with the age old audiobook debate. Consuming books in any medium is reading, ok? They questioned how a book with tentacles and a throuple didn't automatically get a rating of "icky sticky tangle of tentacles" w...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Elf'd by Ginger Kane. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Elle and Kay discuss how its ok for there to not be a grocery list of trigger warnings, and question if "too many arms" is a content warning or a good thing. Kay recalls a time that she opened a "Santa's little helper" in a Christmas swap, though she didn't end up leaving with it that...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join Elle and Kay this week as they discuss Frisky the Snowman by Lauren Biel. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We are back on our sentient object romance bullshit this week, with a welcomed palate cleanser after the Thanksgiving and Halloween smut of late. Kay introduces Elle to a necessary pop culture SNL character moment, though Elle may disagree... Superstar anyone? For...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay are joined by Jayce from Jayce Reads Romance to discuss Back for Seconds by J.L. Logosz and Vera Valentine. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 In this episode, Kay uncovers the plot hole of the wishbone not having the time to dry before snapping, and both Elle and Jayce had chalked it up to something thats only been done on movies and in books. We all stru...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! Join us as we continue the Thanksgiving theme and discuss this week's book, Home for the Gobble Days by Latrexa Nova. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week, Elle and Kay debate whether ghost sex is a real kink but agree that one of the opening scenes of this book would put someone firmly in whether or not they are into exhibitionism. A few of the plot holes in timing ma...

Welcome back WITS Listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss a new kink in Freeuse Thanksgiving by April Cross and Matt Lake. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 The reviews get us going this week, with a mention of AI narration for the audiobook, and boy do we have thoughts. The book being written by two different authors also gives an interesting perspective, but we can tell that the MMC is written by a man...

Welcome back WITS listeners. Halloween is over, its time to get grateful. Are we grateful that we read this book... you be the judge of that one. This week, Elle and Kay discussed Basted by Abby Hunter. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week, Elle has some "what not to do" financial advice in the first year of a relationship, and Kay gets to the root of where her hopeless romantic ideals come from....

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay are joined by a very special guest, Nik the Forge Bear to discuss Corny by Sabrina Cross. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 Get ready for growls, laughs, and all the soapbox talks from Nik. Somehow, in a book about a succubus possessed crocheted candy corn, we discuss dating apps, utilizing toys with a partner, and of course, the age old debate of whether o...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Hallowpeen by Holly Wilde WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week, Kay and Elle were both not expecting really any of what went on in this book, but in true Holly Wilde fashion, we were taken on a ride. Kay related quite a bit to one of the main characters, as someone who tends to get herself into uncomfortable conversations with crying stran...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay read yet another spinoff of a headless horseman tale in Jack's Head by Siggy Shade. Quite honestly, we're not sure how we went 30 books before a Siggy Shade story!! WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We start off this book with green flags from the FMC's fiance... roleplaying from a smutty book? Yes, please! Unfortunately we get immediately smacked in th...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Pumpkin Smash by Darva Green. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 We start off this week with a little update from our time at the Smut Lovers Conference in Orlando! This week's book has us discussing unsafe first date behavior (hello, meeting in secret at midnight is never going to be a good idea) which ultimately gives us a morally grey meet cute. W...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Riding the Headless Horseman by Molly Likovich. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This week's kicks off a month of Halloween themed books! Elle takes issue with the fact that the FMC doesn't believe in the entity of Death when she herself is a witch. Both Kay and Elle agree that the fact that he removes the pumpkin head is way cree...

Welcome back WITS listeners! Join us this week as Elle and Kay discuss Gaga for the Gargoyle by Settle Myer. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 This week was a fun one, as Elle really felt the nostalgia from the Gargoyles show during her youth. We discovered that even 999 year old Gargoyles struggle with conversations on the dating apps, and think that a monster dating app sounds like a ton of fun. As always...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, Elle and Kay discuss Little Slice of Hell by Clio Evans WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 This book is a lot darker than some of our other books, which was just fine with Kay, who loves a dark romance. Elle and Kay were both surprised that we somehow managed to do the first book in a series, and are both interested in reading the books that follow. As with any darke...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss Seduced by the Pumpkin Spice Latte by Evelyn Cloves. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙 (this was a compromise- the spice is low, but there's 3 people so listen at your own discretion) This book sends us back to 2015 in so many ways, and honestly times were simpler back then. Elle is shocked to find out that Kay still uses pinterest, but...

Welcome back WITS Listeners!! This week, we read Forked by Ruth Cardello WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 (1.5?) extra .5 for the fork maybe? This week, Kay and Elle discuss meeting your neighbors in apartment living, and how sometimes putting yourself out there can end up with embarrassing mistakes and petty theft. Elle definitely has a favorite fork, but definitely not the same kind of fork as our main chara...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! Oh boy do we have a special one for you today. This week, in honor of the upcoming fall season, we read Corn Daddy by Helena Woodcock. WITS Smut Scale Rating: 🐙🐙🐙🐙 We weren't really prepared for all of the dark romance elements in this book, which we really should have, considering the shopping list of trigger warnings. Elle and Kay discuss whether or not we would...

Welcome back WITS listeners! This week, we're discussing Squeak by Vera Valentine. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 We are back with a bit of a darker story from of our favorite authors, Vera Valentine. Another week, another Google search for Kay... who is going to volunteer to delete her browser history if anything happens? They discuss yet another sentient object/shifter romance, with yet another food fl...

Welcome back WITS listeners!! This week, we read Pounded by the Pommel Horse by Sabrina Cross. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙 (1.5?) Ladies and Gentlemen, we are back on our bullshit! This book had us back to feeling the way we were a la Unhinged. To start- Kay gives Elle a bit of an education on the difference between Men's and Women's gymnastics (with the limited knowledge that she has). Kay has her own li...

Welcome back WITS listeners. As promised, this week we read Double Stuffed by Derek Masters. WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Elle and Kay are slowly coming back to life after never wanting to hear the word basilisk ever again, and finally got to read about a threesome that we feel we were owed with the last book. Kay was momentarily (actually, it was several hours) left without power after speaking it int...

Welcome back WITS Listeners. If you listened to part one, and you're back for part two, you're one of the real ones! This week, Elle and Kay discuss the ritual that Tem needs to go through in order to be accepted by her basilisk boyfriend's father. We continue to be disappointed that this love triangle never turns into a why choose, and we question if we've reached our limit of how much smut is to...

Welcome back WITS listeners! We've been talking about it for weeks, and it's finally here.... well, part one at least! We know we're yappers, but we really did try to keep it to the important info for this episode! This week, join Elle and Kay as they discuss the first part of Kiss of the Basilisk by Lindsay Straube WITS Smut Scale: 🐙🐙🐙 Kay and Elle discuss the fine line of having a book with n...