Up the Smut Podcast

In which Kate interviews her own mother about her reading habits, book recommendations, and what it's like being the mother of a proud, shameless smut-fluencer.

In which Kate and Mikayla talk about their favorite and most absurd dark romance recommendations. Kate also provides a very personal and very elaborate scale with which to rank dark romance and Mikayla talks about her COVID experience and the 5 dinner rolls her father brought her to survive (it was 6 but he ate one on the way).

In this episode Kate lets you in on all the secrets of the life of a book reviewer including: how to start and grow your bookstagram account, how to stand out from the crowd, getting those advanced readers copies, and keeping track of what you're reading.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla reconnect after a week of mundane messaging and illness, talking about cat's middle names, how many times is too many times to say "brother" during sex, and why 30 year olds make terrible romance heroes.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla rattle off their top recommendations for hockey romances (MM and MF), discuss the popularity of the subgenre, and make general conversation about random shit.

In this episode Kate (AND MIKAYLA) interview Why Choose Hockey Romance author Emily Rath about her book Pucking Around in which three NHL hockey players get absolutely filthy with a sex-positive heroine who never tires. Mad respect.

In which Mikayla goes on an expected and welcome anti-billionaire tirade and then we bring you our favorite and most tolerable billionaire romance recommendations. From contemporary to sci-fi to fantasy and more. We've got the recommendations you need.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla discuss heroines who get a lot of hate but who we absolutely adore. And go off on like 15 different tangents per usual. Fuck you, Gwyneth Paltrow.

In which Kate interviews her obsession Cate C Wells, an author who writes whatever the fuck she wants including psychopathic mafia books, rejected mate shifter books, motorcycle club books, small town romance books, and more. We're all over the place and we're loving every minute of it.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla discuss their love of Praise Kink and shove one million recommendations down your throat. Have a pen ready. Or check our Instagram @UpTheSmutPod for a list of everything we talk about this episode.