When family members (in romance books!) stomp on boundaries but the characters in the book shrug it off…that's not cute. But what's actually going on with these scenes?

Full show notes at smutreport.com/podcast

Tumblereads 23: That's Not Cute

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

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The Smut Report Podcast

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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