This week, Katie and Carl were joined by author Ivy M. Young mere days before the release of her debut novel, and she took us on a wild ride through Mustang's Torment by Misty Walker! Give the episode a listen, and then immediately go buy Ivy's book! Book Description: Mike “Mustang” Cohen has come a long way from the scrawny, emo kid who was constantly bullied at the private schools he attended on scholarship. He’s gained muscle, confidence, a job at an autobody shop, and he’s earned a role as S...
Jul 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 82
The Summer of Friendship rolls on this week, as Katie and Carl get cozy with Snuggle by Sabrina Cross! Despite Carl's reservations about a sentient, 5-foot (1.5m) tall teddy bear, your favorite degenerate duo had a blast with this tale of a demon-filled teddy bear and his efforts to help a friend find love lest the devil snatch her soul! Book Description: Jasmine is too busy to go to Hell and she's definitely too busy for demon antics. But when her demon "fairy godmother" shows up, everything is...
Jul 22, 2024•57 min•Ep. 81
DISCLAIMER: the audio quality of this episode is not up to our usual standards due to technical difficulties, but we had too much fun making it to not release it. We hope that the reduced audio quality does not reduce your enjoyment of the episode. The Summer of Friendship rolls merrily along as we are joined by the fabulous Gwendolyn Harper, who blew our minds with her recounting of Lyonne Riley's My Minotaur Husband ! Give it a listen and enjoy the tale of a girl finding her minotaur in a worl...
Jul 15, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 80
The 1st Annual Smutco Industries Summer of Friendship officially kicks off this week with April D. Berry's cozy romcom, Cut to The Heart of It . Join Katie and Carl for a "snowed in"-adjacent tale full of sexy lumberjacks, silver foxes, and steamy sex! Book Description Writers live in a fantasy world, but CJ tries to keep a good head on her shoulders: a steady job, close to her mom, and only uses her free time to work on her dream of being a full-time author. After a weekend with a love interest...
Jul 08, 2024•57 min•Ep. 79
Katie and Carl are in New Orleans this week, but that didn't stop them from curling up with a good book in their hotel room! This week, they read Hard Bubbles by Leah Legend, and we are proud to announce that this is the book that may have finally broken Carl. Book Description "You can't just randomly waltz into my life, stake a claim and tear down my walls all in one night." "I can, and I will." + + + + When a sexy as hell mershifter has the audacity to tell me that I’m the one he’s been waitin...
Jul 01, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 78
This month, we had the privilege of chatting with Evie Black and learning all about this multifaceted author. We chat about her military service, her love of DnD, and how she came to discover her love of writing. Author's Website Our Linktree ★ Support this podcast ★
Jun 28, 2024•53 min•Ep. 77
After a much-needed week off, we're back with a sweet slice of sexy sapphic fun with Heather Nix's Mixing Up Mayhem ! Give us a listen as Katie geeks out over her favorite FMC of the year (so far) and Carl asks the question everyone's dying to know: who is Joanna Gaines? Book Description Things are finally looking up for thirty-five year old Jackie Miller. She’s scored her dream job as head pâtissier at the top restaurant in the country, she’s going to propose to her girlfriend, and she’s flexin...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 76
Katie called an audible this week and opted to break out a space-faring insta-love courtesy of Naomi Lucas. Join us this week for Cyborg Pool Boy and ponder the vastness of space, where no on can hear you scream. Or moan. Book Description What could a fabulously wealthy heiress possibly do when an alien monster takes up residence in her pool? Call a Cyborg Monster Hunter, obviously. OBVIOUSLY. Little did she know that she just hired a monster to take out another monster. CONTENT WARNING: sci-fi ...
Jun 10, 2024•51 min•Ep. 75
We're back from our week off with Dana Sweeney's sexy sci-fi scorcher Lust For Tomorrow ! If you think that there's no time to bone down in a zombie apocalypse, please let the characters in this book swiftly and frequently disabuse you of that notion. Book Description Submission is freeing… Love is a trap. Pacific Northwest Writers Association Finalist for Best Romance, 2023 I’ve never seen his face. But I ache to feel his body. My fellow soldiers call him Alpha. It’s an insult, mocking his mach...
Jun 03, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 74
Join us for this month's Author Profile and get to know the delightful Bjorn Wilde! We discuss the origins of his pen name, his unique approach to first drafts, and his long-gestating desire to drive a bus! Bjorn's Website Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats freemusicarchive.org ★ Support this podcast ★...
May 31, 2024•48 min•Ep. 73
Thanks to another great recommendation (this time courtesy of friend of the show Gwendolyn Harper ), this week we're mixing two of our favorite tropes: gay hockey players and monstrous main characters! Join us as we revel in the sexy fun of Puck and Plume by Rhea Fox, the first book on the show to make Carl openly declare that he would eat one of the main characters. Book Description NATE I could've done without falling asleep in the middle of a Bavarian forest and being startled awake by a mass...
May 20, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 72
Our listeners make the best recommendations! Listener Tia E. recommended Leigh Miller's Nora's Kraken to Katie, and it immediately checked all of her favorite boxes: monster smut, cozy vibes, and a sweet cinnamon roll of an MMC. Oh, and the opportunity to make Carl squirm with tentacle talk! Book Description: I didn’t flee one monster just to be claimed by another. When the Monster Relations Bureau tells me I've been identified as a kraken shifter's mate, my first instinct is to run. I learned t...
May 13, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 71
At the end of last week's episode, Katie refrained from giving us the name of this week's book, lest she spoil anything. In retrospect, she made the right call, because going blind into Holly Wilde's Earthed really is the best way to experience this absolutely bananas book! Hell, I'd even recommend blowing right past the book description below! Book Description Meet Celeste, the brilliant anthropologist who discovers that our planet is in trouble. The world isn't what it seems, in fact, it's big...
May 06, 2024•52 min•Ep. 70
Katie thought she'd just be able to dip her toe into Bjorn Wilde's Scared Stiff series, but she ended up getting hooked and reading all four books! We originally set out to just cover the first two books (which make up the bulk of the episode), but since the books were so breezy and fun, we opted to cover almost the entire series! (Can't spoil the ending!) Book Description For a gay trio camping in the woods, an escaped ax murderer really kills the mood. It’s been years since best friends Nick, ...
Apr 29, 2024•45 min•Ep. 69
Last October, we had the pleasure to discuss Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson before it was released; this month we had the pleasure of talking to them IRL! Join us as we discuss RE's peen design process, where they pull inspiration from, and what life is like when you're secretly three kobolds in a trench coat. Author's Website Our Linktree ★ Support this podcast ★...
Apr 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 68
Listener (can we call you "listener"?), when we tell you that neither of us were prepared for The Frog Prince , we are telling you that even in recounting this book to Carl, Katie was not ready to REVISIT it. With the fourth book of The Darvel Exploratory Systems series, SJ Sanders has crafted a smutty speculative sci-fi slice-of-life novella that is (sometimes almost literally) overflowing with originality! Thank you to listener Seneca O. for this recommendation! Book Description No one ever sa...
Apr 22, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 67
Looking for a spicy book that'll get your engine revving? Katie has just the book for you this week, 'cause she read Stripped Raw by Miss Merican, a tale full of bad boys, big bikes, and questionable choices! Book Description --- What’s left when you strip away the lies? --- Sam. Loyal to the Coffin Nails MC. Lives by his own rules. Weakness: Damsels in distress. Jolie. In a deeply ambiguous relationship with the Coffin Nails MC. Lives from paycheck to paycheck. Weakness: Bad boys. As a patched ...
Apr 15, 2024•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 66
Listen...by now, you what this show is about. We're obviously going to do a book about railing the Easter Bunny for the holiday weekend, so why not cover a book whose title is literally that? This week, we're covering Railed By the Easter Bunny by Dalia Davies, and it made for a perfect quickie of an episode for this busy holiday weekend! CONTENT WARNING: implied domestic abuse (off-page). So...What Are You Into? Katie: Wildcat Carl: The Barkley Marathons: the Race That Eats Its Young (link is f...
Apr 08, 2024•46 min•Ep. 65
In honor of the start of baseball season, Carl takes the reins this week and tells Katie the tale of two ballplayers in love! Join us for One True Outcome by KD Casey and bask in the heat of summer days at the park and summer nights with one very sexy pair of teammates! Book Description: A veteran player on a new team. The rookie who hero-worshiped him growing up. The unwritten rule they're about to break. Everyone knows you don't fall for a teammate. Especially the rookie you're supposed to men...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 64
For this month's Author Profile, we chatted with the magnificent Shannon Elliot! Give us a listen as we dive into her latest release ( Bound ), the work she puts into writing queer, "quinky" books, and how her theatre background informs her approach to writing. She even drops some details from her works-in-progress! Shannon's Website Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats freemusicarchive.org ★ Support this podcast ★...
Mar 29, 2024•54 min•Ep. 63
This week we're celebrating fifty episodes of Cheap Smut by bringing Josh Fekete back for book three in C. Rochelle's Villainous Things series, Putting Out For a Hero , and good god was it ever a blast! Tune in as all three of us nearly hyperventilate from laughter and marvel at the machinations of the magnificent Suarez clan! Book Description: Baltasar It’s time for me to start pulling my weight in the Suarez clan—to prove I’m worth more than the plays I make on the field or the dirt I dig up o...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 62
Katie's back this week, and she comes bearing a doozy of a tale about Cthulhus and the women who love them and also unknowingly jerk them off in tide pools! Join us as Katie walks us through Claimed By the Cthulhu by Wendi Gogh, and you'll all about that horny misadventure, as well as the perils of having a detachable penis. Book Description: MONSTER SPEED DATING—sounds fun, right? Except my life as a marine biologist takes a slippery turn when I mistake a cthulhu for an octopus, only to find hi...
Mar 18, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 61
When we realized that Katie would be out of commission for a week, we knew immediately who we had to call to cover for her: Gwendolyn Harper! And wouldn't you know it, she absolutely crushed it! Give us a listen as Gwendolyn and Carl cruise the Creepy Court Mall on a nostalgic trip through the 80's and ponder the mechanics of f*cking a hot coyote animatronic courtesy of Beatrix Hollow's Frankie's Funhouse ! (Note: this story originally appeared in Creepy Court, Volume 1: a Monster Mall Anthology...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 60
By listener request, this week we're consuming Bro and the Beast (Book One) by L.C. Davis (penname of Joel Abernathy), a book so good that Katie immediately started book two just 'cause! Give us a listen as we try to unravel the mystery of how certified Bro Brad Miller has found himself in the world of his brother's favorite Shifter romance while also fanning ourselves from the heat of this unconventional Omegaverse smut-fest! Book Description: When musclebound frat bro Brad gets run off the roa...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 59
Last week, the mere mention of this book's title broke Carl, so it should come as no surprise Katie's synopsis of Honey White and the 69 Dwarves had a similar effect. Has Honey walked into the world's most specific kink? Or will she find love amongst the Dvergar? Book Description: Honey White is up to her eyeballs in college loan debt when a random stint as an escort lands her on the doorstep of the Dvergar Mining Company for a summer-long contract. Does she want to be an escort? No. Does she ha...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 58
Salutations, smut denizens! Waaaaaaay back in episode one Katie promised Carl she'd read him a minotaur book, and that time is NOW! This week we're indulging in Jemma Croft's By The Horns , so if you have any burning questions about minotaurs fuck, this episode should answer at least a few of those questions!Book Description: When she stumbled into the wrong classroom at night school, she never expected to find love. Especially not with a minotaur. Joey Silver likes things fast. Life, relationsh...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 57
WE'RE BACK, BABY! After a much-needed hiatus, Katie and Carl are back, and they're kicking off season two with an absolute banger of a book: Initiation by Alethea Faust! Come for Katie recounting her time in the Smut Wars, but stay for a tale of polyamorous sex wizards! Book Description: Magic is a rare gift that only exists in the bloodlines of the rich, the royal, and the reputable. Dominai of Airedale, a poor hunter and forest guide, is barely one of those things. But after a moonlit encounte...
Feb 12, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 56
For our final vault re-release, we went back to our episode on the book that took the weirdest (and therefore, best) corners of BookTok by storm: Vera Valentine's Unhinged ! Give it a listen to hear Katie's joyful squeal when she reveals the big surprise to Carl, and revel in the book that lives up to its title! New episodes return February 12th! Book Description: Danger’s Come A-Knocking…. Someone’s been watching Tana closely, but he’s a lot closer than she realizes. From intimate moments to la...
Feb 05, 2024•54 min•Ep. 55
Our penultimate Smutco Vault release comes courtesy of Olivia T. Turner and her wild instalove novella, Stepbrother Summer ! If you missed this one when it dropped in July, we've gone ahead and dropped it right at the top of the feed for your listening pleasure! New episodes of Cheap Smut return on Monday, February 12th! Book Description: Summer in The Hamptons? Yes, please! Hold on. There’s one catch… My new stepmother is coming and she’s bringing my new stepbrother along. He’s the worst. Ollie...
Jan 29, 2024•55 min•Ep. 54
When friend of the show Josh Fekete told us that a friend of his had a sister who wrote smutty books, we were intrigued. When we sat down and read Moshe: Kosher Nostra , we were wildly impressed and knew that it needed to be an episode, and what an episode it was! Book Description: As the Avraham Avinu, or father of the Jewish Mafia, my shoulders bear a heavy burden. The safety of not only my family, but those that have pledged their allegiance to me, is only the tip of the iceberg. I work hard,...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 53
