Up the Smut Podcast

In this episode Kate and Mikayla talk about their regretful bookish choices (centaurs, really?), their reads from this week, and then have a heated discussion about the pros and cons of having to give birth to a hooved baby. Trigger warnings: during the Hoofbeats discussion we talk about SA. List of books discussed at @upthesmutpod in Instagram.

In which Kate and Mikayla talk about hyped books (the good and the bad) and then make judgement calls about the books our followers voted as the books they think have been over-hyped in the book world.

In which Kate interviews the amazingly talented and spectacularly kind and brilliantly accented Talia Hibbert about her books. If you're interested in diverse Own Voices characters, Talia should be the next author you pick up. I have adored each and every book I've read over the years. They're very spicy (The Roommate Risk has squirting, oh my) and absolutely delightful. She also has a new, and completely adorable, YA book recently pubbed called Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute. Give it a look!

In this episode, Kate mostly talks AT Mikayla about her favorite MM romance recommendations and occasionally Mikayla gets a word or fire rec in. Don't worry, there are plenty of random tangents but mostly there are fabulous MM recommendations covering a plethora of subgenres and tropes.

In this episode Kate interviews audiobook narrator, Connor Crais, who has worked with authors such as AL Jackson, Mariana Zapata, Meghan Quinn, Serena Akeroyd, and so many others (over 200 books!). He is also a co-author with Kayley Loring on a sports romance series & an holiday series.  We talk about behind-the-scenes of audiobook narrating, his journey to romance narration, his work as an author, and so much more. Kate also, maybe, possibly, wrote down some sexy phrases and made him whisper them to her, but it's totally not weird. You can check out his work at ConnorCrais.com.

In this episode Mikayla breaks down her reading trends from 2016-2022 and identifies common slump trends while Kate battles her own on-going, unending book slump and tries to give advice she isn't taking herself. And also Kate embarrasses herself with her lack of Ice Planet Barbarians knowledge which Mikayla is quick to point out and capitalize on.

We read ogre smut and regretted every second of it. Listen to us recount these bizarre and not-so-good stories in this rant masquerading as a podcast episode. Negative vibes inside.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla discuss the romantic suspense genres (their likes, their dislikes, the tropes that drive them crazy) and then dish about their all-time favorite romantic suspense romances (that they've read so far...). There's also, of course, some weird discussions about surviving the apocalypse and the appropriate time to bone when you're being chased by bad guys.

In this episode Kate and Mikayla talk about their most anticipated reads of 2023, their bookish goals, and their trend predictions for the romance genre as we enter the new year.

In the first episode of Up the Smut, Kate and Mikayla talk favorite and least favorite tropes, their Zodiac signs, and whether they can keep a plant alive.