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The Public Access Era at Smutco Industries starts NOW! We are now both an audio and a video podcast, and we celebrated by hosting magnificent multihyphenate THOT SQUAD for a Funbag featuring three sentient object books: S/layed in the Woods by Latrexa Nova, Cold Sweat by Vera Valentine, and Getting Railed by Sabrina Cross.
 
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So...What Are You Into?

It's the end of an era here at Smutco Industries! This week's episode marks our last audio-only episode, and Katie couldn't have picked a higher note to go out on than I Fell Into A Pumpkin And Now I Have A Monster Harem by Kelsey Soliz. One woman, four monster husbands, and and a "woo-woo" girlfriend with an eye for spotting pumpkin-fuckers...what's not to love?

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When my aunt's girlfriend tells...

We're going through a bit of a "second summer" this week at Smutco Industries, so it is the perfect time for a book about a hot alien plant-man! Join us for Rooting For Kiran by Meghan Monarch and watch as our MCs get to it faster than one of those time-lapse plant-growing videos!

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Another week, another massive upheaval in the Smutco Industries household (not to mention Maxx's allergies...sorry for the coughing), but we're soldiering on! We're revisiting a favorite author of ours (Petra Palerno) for another one of her delightfully unhinged monsterfucker tales; this time, it's Abducted by Moonlight, the perfect confluence of werewolves, aliens, and Omega vibes!

This episode marks the introduction of chapters (hopefully...let me know if they don't work), because we spend 20 minutes spilling tea and giving life updates at the top of the show, but if that's not your vibe, skip right ahead to...

We have a very special episode for everyone this week, because LAST weekend, Katie and Maxx hung out in Portland, Oregon and did a live episode at Romancing Portland 2026! They were joined by authors Emily Rath (Pucking Around), S.A. MacLean (Beasts of the Void duology), and honorary Smutco Industries Intern, Lauren Devora (who is not only an author, but a co-host of the In Our Ears podcast, a show about the world of audio erotica).

No book descriptions or Triple T's for this one, because Katie presented a Funbag of three short stories, but with a...

This week, Katie and Maxx overcome some technical difficulties to deliver a sweet tale of sapphic love, and this book was worth the (second) effort! Join us for This One Time at Band Camp by B.L. Brown, and you'll also get a Crown and Quill recap, a Romancing Portland sneak peek, and a glimpse at our plans for 2027!

(Jump ahead to 28:51 if you want to skip the recap/preview portion...we won't be offended, we promise!)

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For weeks, Mac has s...

When we covered Eden Crowe's Bowling With Bigfoot way back on episode 87, Maxx told a story of his youthful, small-town hijinks. Edwn was so tickled that she wrote an ENTIRE BOOK about the hilarious tale!

Okay...she briefly mentions it in Mingling With Mothman, her latest adorable slice-of-small-town-life tale in her Monsters of Mistwood series. It is still very cool, and the book is another Eden Crowe banger!

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If you like your murderers to be hot and principled but still a bit awkward, then have we got the book for you! Join us this week as Katie shares Meat Cute by Millie St. Graves!

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Dean Campbell is reformed.

He hasn’t killed anyone in years.

He keeps his head down, drinks his coffee black, and follows the rules. The Butcher of Black Lake is old news, and Dean plans to keep it that way.

Then June Whitmore moves to town.

June is a l...

We here at Smutco Industries are unabashed lovers of sentient object smut, so we were thrilled to dive into Scrub Me, Daddy by April Showers! It's a filthy tale about a sentient sponge who'll do anything to make you clean! (After making you FILTHY, of course!)

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My entire life is a mess.

My ex cheated. My job sucks. And my apartment smells like old takeout and despair.

Enter: a 3 A.M. infomercial promising the Scrubbie Dubbie will change my life.
Desperate and half-delirious, I order it.

Remember how we couldn't shut up about how much fun Monsterotica Book Con 2025 was? Well, Keri Boberry took it a step further and wrote a damn BOOK set there! Well, not THERE there, but...oh, just read it, okay! Join us this week for The Reader and the Wolf; It's a sweet slice-of-life inspired by one of our community's most beloved events, and there's even a friend of the show who is a character in the book!

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Iris came to Baltimore to attend the most anticipated event in the bookish community. In...

For our season four opener, we are finally taking on a long-requested book: Morning Glory Milking Farm by C.M. Nascosta. Listeners have wanted to hear Katie lay this one on Maxx, and needless to say, he was not ready.

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Violet is a typical, down-on-her-luck millennial: mid-twenties, over-educated and drowning in debt, on the verge of moving into her parents' basement. When a lifeline appears in the form of a very unconventional job in neighboring Cambric Creek, she has no choice but to grab at it with both hands.

Morning G...

We have a VERY special surprise for our listeners this week! During our hiatus, we had the opportunity to chat with actor/author Lauren Carter Reilly, aka Glamour Possum! She is the creator of the popular Sunday O'Rorden character on TikTok, and now Sunday is getting the literary treatment with All We Have Is Money! We also talked about her previous novels, how she made the jump from the stage to the page, and how she relishes being able to tell her stories across a variety of mediums.

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Season four is here! After a longer-than-anticipated hiatus, Katie and Maxx are back! Tune in to hear what's been going on during hiatus, where we'll be appearing this year, and some new projects in the works! Oh, and we have thoughts on Emerald Fennell's adaptation of Wuthering Heights!

So...What Are You Into?

Katie: The Wandering Village and "Miyazaki" by Paris Paloma
Maxx: "Fabienk" by Angine de Poitrine

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After a much-needed hiatus, Katie and Maxx are back with their holiday episode! Yes, we know that the holidays are technically behind us, but that doesn't mean that we can't keep celebrating! Join us as Katie and Maxx marvel at My Boyfriend Has a Christmas Train Peen (and Other Holiday Classics) by Smutco Industries' favorite mad genius, Holly Wilde!

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When Fa-La-La brings the WTF, you know you’ve stumbled into a Holly Wilde Holiday!

If you’re craving a holiday read that’s completely unserious, Holly Wilde’s latest collection delivers...

"Ghostlight Fall" rolls on, and we're stoked to feature an author new to the show: Elsie LePlant! We've never covered her work before, but we'll never forget our first encounter with her! Give us a listen as Katie recaps Defined and Defiled. You may think you love books, but not like this tome's FMC loves them!

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Shirley would do anything for her students. Even flirt her way into the closed off basement of her school.

But her students might not be the only ones learning a thing or two when sh...

Week two of Ghostlight Fall features two books from show favorite Nicole Parker! We kind of knew what we were in for with Nicole, but in classic Nicole fashion, she still found ways to surprise us! Give us a listen as Katie blasts through The Totally Typical Tale of Mappy McMapface and Hello, Nurse, Nicole's contribution to the Ghostlight Falls series.

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Mappy McMapface takes pride in being Ghostlight Falls’ very own himbo. Who needs brains with wings like those?

Carter regrets giving Mappy the spotlight. His bitterness and quest for r...

On the one hand, this week's episode is a few days late. On the other hand, for the month of November, Cheap Smut is going weekly again as we celebrate the release of Ghostlight Falls, a 13-book series co-created by some of our favorite authors: Dakota Cockaday, Nicole Parker, Thea Masen, G.M. Fairy, Sabrina Cross, Sylvia Morrow, Luna Cantrip, Clover Holloway, Elsie LePlant, Kenzie James, and Latrexa Nova.

All month, we're covering books from the interconnected world of Ghostlight Falls, a creepy town in the Pacific Northwest that isn't too creepy to keep the citizens from g...

On this week's episode, Maxx mentioned that he would be making his return to stand-up comedy. Like any good comic, he recorded the seven-minute performance, and now he would like to share it with all of you!

Prior to the set, Katie and Maxx talk briefly about Maxx's history with stand-up comedy, his inspirations, and his plans going forward.

(Audio recorded 13 October 2025 at Crunchie's in East Lansing, Michigan.)

Music: "Storytime" by Maxx Joy

It's a race against the clock this week, as Katie and Maxx barrel through The Flower Queen by Phenix Lynn, each with a heroic amount of edibles (consumed right before Maxx hit "Record") slowly kicking in. Whether they won or lost depends on how you feel about a married couple giddily recounting a smutty Thumbelina retelling!

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Leena is a day away from marrying her best friend, King Obe. When she is kidnapped the night before the wedding, she must face her fears and remember the survival skills she learned as a child t...

A while back, Katie put the word out on Bluesky asking for book recs, and AS Adams said, "Hey, check this shit out!" and suggested their book "MILF: A Holiday Romance." We are grateful for their boldness, as this episode was a sexy and hilarious blast from start to finish!

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After six months of late night feedings, dirty diapers, and a baby who’d rather be held than sleep in his crib, Daphne and Cooper Jones need a break. So when he books a romantic stay-cation at a luxury hotel for Mother’s Day...

A certain neurodivergent producer/husband has an affinity for truth in advertising, so it should come as no surprise that Katie had a blast telling Maxx all about My Billionaire Boss Is A Vampire by Kate McDarris. All that was missing in the title was a "But" and then a comically long list of things they wanted to do to their boss.

(Producer's note: Oh, just you wait...)

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"My boss is worth $42 billion. I just found out he’s a vampire...
and I'm about to be his next snack."

Katie opted to keep things light and the stakes low this week, and you won't hear Maxx complaining! Join us this week for Ready For Her Alien Husband by Marian Pattechat and snuggle up with the cozy, "slice of life" vibes!

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Trixie’s dream has come true: she has been identified as the fated mate of a Gaenthian. He’s handsome, buff, winged, and horned. It’s just what she’s been fantasizing about ever since his warrior race came to Earth’s assistance two years ago. The trip to her new home on a...

To Maxx's delight, the darkness of Sinful Signings is behind us (Producer's Note: LOVE YOU, SINFUL BESTIES!!!), and now things can get back to normal, with "normal" meaning "the weird and goofy stuff," and few do weird and goofy like Bjorn Wilde! This week, Katie covers books 1-5 of Bjorn's stepparent taboo series, Taking The Step, and we lose our collective minds at the notion of an 18-year-old with a penis who's barely touched the darn thing!

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Shy eighteen-year-old Cam is ready to be a man…he just doesn’t know how. One...

Producer's Note: we understand that this isn't a normal episode, and that you may not be interested in hearing us talk about Sinful Signings again. If you would like to hear about the giveaway, jump ahead to the 24:50 mark.

No book this week as we're blasting this one out far and wide for patrons and main liners alike! This week we're recapping Sinful Signings 2025, looking ahead to BOTH Sinful Signings events next year, talking about the future of the show, and we're hosting our first-ever giveaway!

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Producer's Note: given the difficult nature of capturing live sound, this episode's volume levels are going to be higher than what you are used to.

For our first Sinful Signings in 2024, we interviewed New York Times bestselling author Brynne Weaver and had no idea how we could top that. Well, thanks to the amazing Sinful Signings team (thank you, Autumn, Desi, and David!), we were able to top it and then some with our first-ever LIVE episode! Katie and Carl were joined by narrator Lizzie Heard and a room full of smut lovers as Katie told the...

Our last pre-Sinful Signings episode is here and it is a WILD one! This week, Katie and Carl are joined by fellow Sinful Signings attendees Kelly and Branden of Blush Podcast, and they were game for Only Her by N. Slater. After the traumas inflicted upon Carl by last week's book (Producer's note: Still love you, Burd!), Katie felt like something sweet and sapphic was in order!

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Daniela has stolen my heart, my body, and my soul.
She’s mine.
Even if she’s the soon-to-be Queen of Kusovania.
Unfortunately, as a...

We are SO. CLOSE. To Sinful Signings 2025 (July 19-20 in Roanoke, Virginia), and the dark parade of attending authors covered on our show marches on with The Three Ring Scavenger by S. A. Burd. Katie has longed to cover one of of Burd's books on the show, and the wait paid off big time, as it led her to this bonkers tale of demons, gods, and vampires getting up to no good.

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A vampire and demon walk into a brothel, but they’re not looking for services. They’re looking for HER.
B...

This week, Katie caught Carl slipping and forgetting what Sinful Signings is all about. (Spoiler: the dark stuff.) Luckily, Katie read Their Goddess by Sabrina G. this week, and that was all the reminding that Carl needed! Tune in and you'll almost literally HEAR a man get whiplash from the tone shift!

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Ethan and Syrus met online. Their true identities hidden behind a mask, but the chemistry they feel cannot be denied. What started as a few collaboration videos turned into lives together and spiraled into an in-person meet-up at a coffee shop.

We know that Sinful Signings celebrates the darker side of the romance world, but sometimes you gotta lighten up and let a little sunshine in! That's exactly what we're doing this week with Concussion Protocol by Sinful Signings attending author Rebecca Rathe! Join us for this breezy and sexy tale of a hot nurse and his hunky, rugby-playing patient!

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A sweet and spicy short story by Rebecca Rathe

He's a ten, but he's my ex-boyfriend's straight teammate and my patient.

Rugby Player & Nurse
Ex Boyfriend's Friend
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Sinful Signings 2025 is on the horizon (July 19th-20th in Roanoke, Virginia), so things are getting dark here at Smutco Industries! We're kicking off our coverage of the dark romance genre with a book that came highly recommended by patron/dear friend Katie Hurd; Draga & the Savage: Dragobete by Jenny Allen. The spice may be on the low end, but the passion is INTENSE!

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As a woman in medieval Romania, the inability to control my fate quickly grew from annoyance to a festering wound. Even as a Durand, who can...

This week, Katie and Carl continue to gush about their time at Monsterotica Book Con, including how delighted they were to meet B.C. King and Phantom Dame, co-creators of Cold Nights In A Warm Cave, the book we are covering this week. Join us and marvel at how quickly this book goes from sweet to silly to spicy in the blink of an eye!

Producer's Note: there is a tone at the 29:55 mark to indicate this week's Brief Descriptions of Long Books.

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Olivia, a fearless homesteader on the edge of...

Katie Mizell and her husband Maxx Joy are Smutco Industries. Together, they create Cheap Smut, a podcast for people who would never let anyone see their Kindle library. Each week, Katie explains the plot of a cheap, smutty book ($4.99 or less) to her husband Maxx, who has little to no idea what the book is about.

When we debuted Cheap Smut in February of 2023, there was no way we could have imagined that we would make it to one hundred episodes. And yet, not only did we make it to one hundred episodes, the stars aligned and we ended up recording it in Baltimore because we were influencer guests at the first-ever Monsterotica Book Con.

In celebration of our centennial episode, we're honoring the works of Dr. Chuck Tingle, because were it not for his groundbreaking works, Cheap Smut would not be here today. We also chat about the new theme...

Things are hectic at Smutco Industries as we prepare for Monsterotica Book Con, so this week we're letting off some steam and revisiting our beloved New York Nighthawks! Join us as Katie quarterbacks us through Spread Offense by Fiona Davenport, and find out if our running back of an MMC fumbles his dream girl!

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Gage Ledger didn’t know Rory Abernathy beyond her online gamer tag, but he still couldn’t get her off his mind. Although he’d never met her in real life, he had a feeling he’d finall...

Monsterotica Book Con is right around the corner (DO NOT REMIND US WE ARE NOT READY!!!), but we had time to get one more attending author's book in front of Katie! And what a book it was, 'cause we were sweating by the end of Blood Moon by Jillian Graves! The spice is as high as the stakes are in this one!

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Hazel knows exactly how to get over her bar's troubles: getting under something big, hairy, and monstrous at her coven's supernatural mixer. The hottest club in Los Angeles...

Katie has never hidden her love for the cozier books we cover, and this week the cozy gets cute with Kass O'Shire's The Curious Incident of the Great Cookie Snackcident of 979!

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The Curious Incident of the Great Cookie Snackcident of 979 is a cozy, slower burn workplace romance with two MCs who connect over a shared passion for their calling. It features a demi heroine, a non-binary shadow monster, wooing with snacks, footnotes from an in world narrator, and shadow tentacle play!

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Katie was such a fan of Thea Masen's My Date With a Rubber Duckie (which we covered in our March Patreon bonus episode) that she wanted to do ANOTHER Thea Masen book! And that is why this week, we're talking about Stiff, the book that dares to ask the question, "What's the worst way to get punished when you pull a 'Rail n' Bail' on a witch expecting reciprocal cunnilingus?"

Also: we're trying out a new segment this week where we briefly highlight a second book for your consideration. This week's book: Disadvantage by...

Were K.L. Hiers still able to attend Monsterotica Book Con, we would lay upon them the biggest of hugs for Shoulda Swiped Left. They can no longer attend, so instead we will heap praise upon their retelling of a classic myth for your listening pleasure.

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Joseph Abrams can't believe he's found his perfect match through online dating. Zale Petropoulos is hot, charming, and just the right amount of mysterious.

They meet for their first date and the sparks fly all the way through dinner and right through...

We're gearing up for Monsterotica Book Con here at Smutco Industries, and this week we're featuring another MBC author: Lizzie Strong! Katie could not stop gushing about Gotten By The Gator, a book she described as "like reading a cloud." Tune in and see why that is the highest form of compliment coming from the Smutco CEO!

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Aurora's ex-husband got everything in the divorce—the dog, the house, the car, everything—and she's left to pick up the pieces. Crawling back home to her mother with her tail between her legs...

Spring Break at Smutco Industries brought in some bad vibes, but we're shaking them off and going out of this world with How to Land an Alien Boyfriend by Cassie O. Peia, better known to you smut lovers as Dakota Cockaday! Join us as we ponder the great mysteries of the universe, like how can one MMC be so oily, yet so dry!

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It was just another day at work when Araceli Martinez met her fated mate. Okay, so “met” might not be the right word... more like she tried to h...