The Smut Report Podcast

This week on Tumblereads, we're talking about what we're reading and how we're feeling about those books. Honestly, the conversation went all over the place. And ended with madlibs. Our current reading, all the show notes, and a link to the madlibs can be found at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/09/14/tumblereads-extremely-problematic-but-so-fun-dating-advice-from-romance-books-the-physics-is-the-problem/]. If you like what we're doing, please rate or recommend us to a friend.

We're Tumblereading again, and this time we started talking about those things that just pull us out of books when we read—and also about AI (and reader responses to it). Some links to things we talked about at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/09/08/discussion-those-things-that-are-like-buckets-of-cold-water/]. Have a question or a discussion point for us? Leave us a comment [https://smutreport.com/2025/09/08/discussion-those-things-that-are-like-buckets-of-cold-water/]!

We're trying something a little different here at The Smut Report Pod, where we just talk about whatever we're reading and see where it takes us. What we got was 30 minutes of unedited chit chat, mostly about Romantasy. For a list of all the books we talked about, go to smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/08/31/introducing-tumblereads/]. Like the format? Hate it? Have a question you'd like us to answer? Leave us a comment here [https://smutreport.com/2025/08/31/introducing-tumblereads/].

The Smut Report Team is back, and this month we're talking about the criminal archetype in romance books. What characteristics does a criminal love interest have—and what makes them so dang sexy? For our conversation, we read Hard Time by Cara McKenna [https://amzn.to/3UQ3abj]. Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/08/04/lets-talk-archetypes-criminals/]

This month, the Smut Report team is talking Metaromance. Not romances that take place at Facebook, but romance books that are talking about romance books. To prepare, we all read Unromance by Erin Connor [https://amzn.to/4kEX0pN]. Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/06/13/lets-talk-about-metaromance/].