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 [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/01/tumblereads-the-fanfic-to-romance-pipeline/]

Tumblereads 20: The Fanfic to Romance Pipeline

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 [https://smutreport.com/2026/02/22/tsr-book-club-swordheart-by-t-kingfisher/].

TSR Book Club: Swordheart

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 [https://smutreport.com/2026/02/15/tumblereads-identifying-with-the-characters/]

Tumblereads 19: Identifying with the Characters

In which the team comes up with 10 ways to ruin a black moment.

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/02/08/tumblereads-how-to-ruin-a-black-moment-in-10-ways/]

Tumblereads 18: How to Ruin a Black Moment in 10 Ways

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

Tumblereads 17: Snowstorms and Thunderbangs

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 Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole [https://amzn.to/49X2ybl].

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/01/25/tsr-book-club-an-extraordinary-union-by-alyssa-cole/]

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole

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.

Tumblereads 16: A Moment of Reflection

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 [https://smutreport.com/2026/01/11/tumblereads-euphemistic-bits/].

Tumblereads 15: Euphemistic Bits

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/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/12/31/now-presentingthe-fifth-annual-smut-report-superlatives-2/]

6th Annual Smut Report Superlatives

Isn't it amazing how some people are good at making and analyzing art?!?

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2025/12/21/tumblereads-the-subtleties-of-artistry-and-expertise/]

Tumblereads 14: The Subtleties of Artistry and Expertise

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Erin, Holly, and Ingrid have been reading romance novels together for 20 years—and we love talking about them.

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