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 [https://bookshop.org/a/9436/9781968767006].

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/22/tsr-book-club-rears-vices-by-e-m-caro/]

TSR Book Club: Rears & Vices by E.M. Caro

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 [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/15/tumblereads-22-whatchu-reading/]

Tumblereads 22: Whatchu Reading?

Ingrid challenges the Smut Report team to come up with 10 ways authors can ruin a kiss.

Show notes at smutreport.com/podcast [https://smutreport.com/2026/03/08/tumblereads-how-to-ruin-a-kiss-in-10-ways/].

Tumblereads 21: How to Ruin a Kiss in 10 Ways

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

Call us Smut Enthusiasts.

Call us Smut Scholars.

Call us Smut Evangelists.

We are The Smut Report: Let’s talk dirty books.

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

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