Cheap Smut

Episode 115 - Defined and Defiled

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

"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...

Episode 114: The Totally Typical Tale of Mappy McMapface/Hello Nurse

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Nico...

Episode 113 - Close Encounters of the Ghostlight Falls Kind

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 celebra...

Bonus Mini Episode - Maxx Joy Live at Crunchy's

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 perfor...

Episode 112 - The Flower Queen

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 (cons...

Episode 111 - MILF: A Holiday Romance

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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: ...

Episode 110 - My Billionaire Boss Is A Vampire

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ma...

Episode 109 - Ready For Her Alien Husband

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 108 - Taking The Step

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

Sinful Signings Recap, A Soft Reboot, And A Giveaway!

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 107 - Wicked Games (Cheap Smut Live at Sinful Signings 2025)

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. Fo...

Episode 106 - Only Her (wsg/ Kelly and Branden of Blush Podcast)

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 105 - The Three Ring Scavenger

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

Episode 104 - Their Goddess

23 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Katie caught Carl slipping and forgetting what Sinful Signings is all about. (Spoiler: the dark stuff.) Luckily, Katie read Their Goddess b...

Episode 103 - Concussion Protocol

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 102 - Draga & the Savage: Dragobete

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 101 - Cold Nights In A Warm Cave

26 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Trailer

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 the...

Episode 100 - Pounded By The Classics

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 on...

Episode 99 - Spread Offense

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 N...

Episode 98 - Blood Moon

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 fr...

Episode 97 - The Curious Incident of the Great Cookie Snackcident of 979

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 96 - Stiff

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 95 - Shoulda Swiped Left

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 att...

Episode 94 - Gotten By The Gator

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 93 - How to Land an Alien Boyfriend

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Boyfrien...

Episode 92 - Howls and Home Runs

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When Katie told Carl that this week's book was not so much ABOUT baseball as it was baseball-adjacent, he was undeterred. When he found out what it wa...

Episode 91 - Portal to Pleasure

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nothing I can type here will prepare you for the spicy blast that is Portal to Pleasure by Viano Oniomoh, so go ahead and smash the heck out of that "...

Episode 90 - Butcher & Blackbird (Patreon Bonus Episode #1)

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We're working overtime here at Smutco Industries and didn't have time to record a new episode, so as a special lil' treat, we're giving everyone a cha...

Episode 89 - The Spacetacular Holiday Novellas

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week's vibes are immaculate and light as we cozy up with Lindsay Reign's Spacetacular Holiday Novellas! You get two novellas in this episode, and...

Episode 88 - My AI

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sure, the rise of AI could give us Skynet, but what if it gave us knee-buckling orgasms instead? Only one author is brave enough to ask that hard-hitt...

Episode 87 - Bowling With Bigfoot

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

WE'RE BACK, BABY! Season three of Cheap Smut is kicking off with those cozy monster vibes we love and appreciate, and the object of our affection this...

Episode 86 - Mean One

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Season two comes to a close in spectacular fashion, as Katie was thrilled to present Mean One by Ab. Cynthe. Yes, it's a Grinch-fucker book, and yes, ...

Author Profile - Sara Furlong Burr

27 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

(Producer's Note: We had technical difficulties at the outset of our recording, so this profile is shorter than our typical Author Profile episodes.) ...

Episode 85 - Accidentally Under Your Tree

23 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's an all-Michigan episode this week, as your Michigan-based hosts are proud to present Accidentally Under Your Tree by fellow Michigander Marty Vee...

Episode 84 - S.I.L.F.

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie is spreading holiday cheer with the a steamy office romance this week, courtesy of Lana Love! Give us a listen as Katie walks us through S.I.L.F...

Episode 83 - A Court-Ordered Romance

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The holidays roll on at Smutco Industries with A Court -Ordered Romance by Lark Green. Not even the heavy use of arousal-smelling could make Katie say...

Episode 82 - Stormbound

02 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The holidays are upon us, so you know what that means! It's time for Katie to break out the cozy (but still VERY sexy) vibes, and what better way to k...

Author Profile - Samantha Moran

29 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For our November Author Profile, we had the pleasure of chatting with fellow Michigander Samantha Moran, author of Without You and Wicked Little Rabbi...

Episode 81 - Once Ghosted, Twice Shy

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we have a sexy, Sapphic romance courtesy of Alyssa Cole! Join us as Katie takes us through Once Ghosted, Twice Shy and swoon as two dapper l...

Episode 80 - The Fuckboy Karma Series

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's a "Why Choose?" week here at Smutco Industries! Katie couldn't pick just one of the books in Darling Day's Fuckboy Karma series, so she read all ...

Episode 79 - Sins and Secrets

11 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're back! After our impromptu week off, we're back! And as a "thank you" for your patience, we brought a banger of a book: Sins and Secrets, the sec...

Episode 78 - Little Spark of Flame

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have a Spooky Smuttober audible this week, as Katie decided to move back Arsyn Quinn's book one week and go withLittle Spark of Flame by Clio Evans...

Author Profile - Latrexa Nova

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The halls of Smutco Industries were abuzz this month in anticipation of our conversation with the Quing of Halloween, Latrexa Nova! They were kind eno...

Episode 77 - Wed to the Lich

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie and Carl were on the road again this week and recording in the finest hotel northwest Indiana has to offer, and they had a blast recording their...

Episode 76 - The Spooky Smuttober Funbag!

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We here at Smutco Industries are on the record as being big fans of funbags, so we're kicking off Spook Smuttober with a funbag full of spooky, sexy s...

Episode 75 - Our Darling Isabelle

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Katie and Carl are wrapping up Sinful September by recapping their time at Sinful Signings 2024 before jumping into Our Darling Isabelle By...

A Conversation With Brynne Weaver at Sinful Signings 2024

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're proud to present our conversation with Brynne Weaver, New York Times bestselling author of The Ruinous Love Trilogy. Recorded on Sep...

Bonus Episode: Glitch (Sinful Signings 2024 Re-Release)

24 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As a special addition to Sinful September, we are pleased to re-release our episode covering Glitch by Briana Michaels. We covered Glitch way back on ...

Episode 74 - Little Red and Her Creatures of Chaos

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

As noted shifter enthusiasts, what kind of podcasters would we be if we didn't include a shifter romance for Sinful September? Luckily, Ames Mills had...

Episode 73 - Touch Me

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sinful September rolls on this week, as Katie was thrilled to finally tuck into a book by Smutco Industries favorite Andi McClane! Join us as we take ...

Author Profile - Brian Scala

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For Sinful September, we're dropping our Author Profile a few weeks early so we can share our conversation with Sinful Signings attending author Brian...

Episode 72 - Sinful Signings 2023 Sinthology

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Smutco Industries is kicking off Sinful September with a selection of stories from the 2023 Sinful Signings Sinthology, featuring authors who will be ...

Episode 71 - Bloody Sunset

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hot on the heels of Katie flying out to Massachusetts to meet Gwendolyn Harper for the first time IRL, we're wrapping up the Summer of Friendship with...

Episode 70 - The Unfortunate Reads Funbag!

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For the penultimate episode of the Summer of Friendship, Katie and Carl were joined by their favorite smutty polymath, Cassie, aka Unfortunate Reads! ...

Episode 69 - The Spellbroken King

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In a break from the ordinary, Katie tucked into a physical book this week and read The Spellbroken King by friend-of-the-show J.A. Keeton! This one's ...

Episode 68 - Sinful Demands

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we get a little help from our friends thanks to Sinful Signings "Sinfluencer" Katie Hurd! She joined Katie and Carl to guide them through a ...

Episode 67 - Love Laugh Lich

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Katie first pitched Carl the idea for Cheap Smut nearly three years ago, one of the first books she mentioned wanting to cover was Love Laugh Lic...

Episode 66 - Mustang's Torment

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Katie and Carl were joined by author Ivy M. Young mere days before the release of her debut novel, and she took us on a wild ride through M...

Episode 65 - Snuggle

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Summer of Friendship rolls on this week, as Katie and Carl get cozy with Snuggle by Sabrina Cross! Despite Carl's reservations about a sentient, 5...

Episode 64 - My Minotaur Husband

15 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

DISCLAIMER: the audio quality of this episode is not up to our usual standards due to technical difficulties, but we had too much fun making it to not...

Episode 63 - Cut to The Heart of It

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The 1st Annual Smutco Industries Summer of Friendship officially kicks off this week with April D. Berry's cozy romcom, Cut to The Heart of It. Join K...

Episode 62 - Hard Bubbles

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie and Carl are in New Orleans this week, but that didn't stop them from curling up with a good book in their hotel room! This week, they read Hard...

Author Profile - Evie Black

28 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This month, we had the privilege of chatting with Evie Black and learning all about this multifaceted author. We chat about her military service, her ...

Episode 61 - Mixing Up Mayhem

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a much-needed week off, we're back with a sweet slice of sexy sapphic fun with Heather Nix's Mixing Up Mayhem! Give us a listen as Katie geeks o...

Episode 60 - Cyborg Pool Boy

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie called an audible this week and opted to break out a space-faring insta-love courtesy of Naomi Lucas. Join us this week for Cyborg Pool Boy and ...

Episode 59 - Lust For Tomorrow

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We're back from our week off with Dana Sweeney's sexy sci-fi scorcher Lust For Tomorrow! If you think that there's no time to bone down in a zombie ap...

Author Profile - Bjorn Wilde

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for this month's Author Profile and get to know the delightful Bjorn Wilde! We discuss the origins of his pen name, his unique approach to fir...

Episode 58 - Puck and Plume

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks to another great recommendation (this time courtesy of friend of the show Gwendolyn Harper), this week we're mixing two of our favorite tropes:...

Episode 57 - Nora's Kraken

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our listeners make the best recommendations! Listener Tia E. recommended Leigh Miller's Nora's Kraken to Katie, and it immediately checked all of her ...

Episode 56 - Earthed

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At the end of last week's episode, Katie refrained from giving us the name of this week's book, lest she spoil anything. In retrospect, she made the r...

Episode 55 - Scared Stiff

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie thought she'd just be able to dip her toe into Bjorn Wilde's Scared Stiff series, but she ended up getting hooked and reading all four books! We...

Author Profile - RE Johnson

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last October, we had the pleasure to discuss Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson before it was released; this month we had the pleasure of talking to ...

Episode 54 - The Frog Prince

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listener (can we call you "listener"?), when we tell you that neither of us were prepared for The Frog Prince, we are telling you that even in recount...

Episode 53 - Stripped Raw

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for a spicy book that'll get your engine revving? Katie has just the book for you this week, 'cause she read Stripped Raw by Miss Merican, a t...

Episode 52 - Railed By the Easter Bunny

08 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen...by now, you what this show is about. We're obviously going to do a book about railing the Easter Bunny for the holiday weekend, so why not co...

Episode 51 - One True Outcome

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In honor of the start of baseball season, Carl takes the reins this week and tells Katie the tale of two ballplayers in love! Join us for One True Out...

Author Profile - Shannon Elliot

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For this month's Author Profile, we chatted with the magnificent Shannon Elliot! Give us a listen as we dive into her latest release (Bound), the work...

Episode 50 - Putting Out For a Hero (wsg/ Josh Fekete)

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're celebrating fifty episodes of Cheap Smut by bringing Josh Fekete back for book three in C. Rochelle's Villainous Things series, Puttin...

Episode 49 - Claimed by the Cthulhu

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Katie's back this week, and she comes bearing a doozy of a tale about Cthulhus and the women who love them and also unknowingly jerk them off in tide ...

Episode 48 - Frankie's Funhouse (wsg/ Gwendolyn Harper)

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When we realized that Katie would be out of commission for a week, we knew immediately who we had to call to cover for her: Gwendolyn Harper! And woul...

Episode 47 - Bro and the Beast (Book One)

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

By listener request, this week we're consuming Bro and the Beast (Book One) by L.C. Davis (penname of Joel Abernathy), a book so good that Katie immed...

Episode 46 - Honey White and the 69 Dwarves

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, the mere mention of this book's title broke Carl, so it should come as no surprise Katie's synopsis of Honey White and the 69 Dwarves had a...

Episode 45 - By The Horns

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Salutations, smut denizens! Waaaaaaay back in episode one Katie promised Carl she'd read him a minotaur book, and that time is NOW! This week we're in...

Episode 44 - Initiation

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

WE'RE BACK, BABY! After a much-needed hiatus, Katie and Carl are back, and they're kicking off season two with an absolute banger of a book: Initiatio...

Unhinged (Smutco Vault Re-release)

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For our final vault re-release, we went back to our episode on the book that took the weirdest (and therefore, best) corners of BookTok by storm: Vera...

Stepbrother Summer (Smutco Vault Re-release)

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our penultimate Smutco Vault release comes courtesy of Olivia T. Turner and her wild instalove novella, Stepbrother Summer! If you missed this one whe...

Moshe: Kosher Nostra (Smutco Vault Re-Release)

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When friend of the show Josh Fekete told us that a friend of his had a sister who wrote smutty books, we were intrigued. When we sat down and read Mos...

The Pitcher's Assistant wsg/ Matt Coggins (Smutco Vault Re-Release)

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're revisiting our episode on The Pitcher's Assistant by Jessa Kane! Our first episode featuring a guest (Carl's co-host on Put Me In, Coa...

A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor (Smutco Vault Re-Release)

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our first foray into the vault has unearthed our very first episode, A Lady of Rooksgrave Manor by Kathryn Moon! If you're new to the show and wanna h...

Episode 43 - Trick Shot

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Horny Holidays celebration wraps up with Kayla Grosse's Trick Shot, and we really could not have picked a better book to end Year One of Cheap Smu...

Author Profile - Opal Reyne

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our final Author Profile of 2023 features the creator of the Duskwalker Brides series, Opal Reyne! Join us as we pick her brain on "dark romance" vers...

Episode 42 - Not Alone On Christmas

25 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you asked Santa for a sweet slice of sapphic smut for Christmas but he didn't deliver, don't worry! Smutco Industries has you covered, because this...

Episode 41 - Birched By The Krampus

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

If you've found a severe lack of "horny for Krampus" smut in your life, then may we here at Smutco Industries present to you Birched By The Krampus by...

Episode 40 - Snow King Catches His Snowflake

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Horny Holidays roll on this week as we take on Snow King Catches His Snowflake by A.E. Valdez! This book blew Katie's doors off, and she could not...

Episode 39 - Mistlefoe

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Horny Holidays roll on here at Smutco Industries with Kimberly Lemming's Mistlefoe: a Mead Realm Tale. There's a ton of spice baked into this 60-p...

Episode 38 - Snowed Inn (With a Demon)

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We're keeping the cozy winter vibes going this week with Snowed Inn (With a Demon) by LE Eldridge! We contemplate having the ability to render ourselv...

Author Profile - Rachel Rener

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In our third installment of our Author Profiles, we were joined by award-winning and best-selling romantasy author Rachel Rener! We had a total blast ...

Episode 37 - Goat Girl

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Settle in with Katie and Carl as they snuggle up with Sylvia Morrow's Goat Girl, a cozy slice of smut that delighted their collective pants off! If yo...

Episode 36 - Gentlemen Prefer Villains (wsg/ Josh Fekete)

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We here at Smutco Industries were so taken with Not All Himbos Wear Capes by C. Rochelle (the first book in her Villainous Things series) that we just...