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 ourselves corporeal on a whim and have a go at rewriting the Bible, so you just know that this one's a banger! Book Description Welcome to the Camden Inn. Famous for their beautiful snowy mountains, the world's best peppermint hot chocolate...and oh yeah, being haunted.Inn manager Tana thinks it's all bullshit, no matter how many bumps in the night she heard. After an awful experience with a ghost hunter, she’s sworn off ghosts and lovers. Until the day she gets snowed in with a very alluring new guest.But what secrets is this new guy hiding?Amon is very real. Though he isn’t a ghost, but a demon, feeding off the fear of others. And he’s been trying to scare the Inn manager since she started working there. Everything changes when he finally scares her and finds her fear is delicious, and he knows he must scare her again… And what better way than becoming a guest at the inn? CONTENT WARNINGS: primal play, tail play, impact play, and light BDSM. TROPES: strong and independent woman, snowed in, and fated mates. So...What Are You Into? Katie: Dimension 20: Burrow's End Carl: Barbie BONUS: The "Zero Ghost Tolerance Policy" scene from Community LE's Linktree Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats freemusicarchive.org

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 comparing theatre backgrounds, talking about her wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for her Gilded Blood Complete Series Omnibus, and reveling in the best DM's that she's gotten. Rachel's Website Rachel on TikTok Rachel on Instagram Arcane: Relics of Legend and Lore Anthology Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

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 you like your smut with a dash of cozy vibes, put Goat Girl at the top of your TBR! Book Description He said he’d never met a mashie until he fell for me.Superheroes are real. Unfortunately, so are supervillains, and one turned me into a goat girl.Since The Big Mash-Up things have been pretty tough for us mashies, or those who got stuck being half animal. I lost my home and my dreams. Now I’m working minimum wage, dealing with a public that sometimes wishes I didn’t exist.And then he walks into my life.The sexiest man who’s ever ordered a drink from me.Liam Jemison.An entomologist working to help solve lingering issues from The Mash-Up, he tells me I’m the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. His kisses make me feel like I’m on fire and every touch has me aching for more. He says he wants me and likes everything about me. It feels real but can I risk trust in a world like this?Can I believe in heroes when the world treats me like a villain? CONTENT WARNINGS: being stuck inside someone else's body, goats, outright bigoted behavior, food, mental/spiritual/sexual abuse and cheating in a relationship mentioned that is not the relationship between the main characters, outdoor sex, poverty, talk of bugs. So...What Are You Into? Katie: Cross stitching again! Carl: God of War (2018) BONUS VIDEO: Shoresy Season 1: "Meet the Jims" Author's Website Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

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 had to cover the second book, Gentlemen Prefer Villains. We even brought friend of the pod (and guest from the NAHWC episode) Josh Fekete back because he wanted to hear what happened next. Dear listener, none of us were disappointed! Book Description  Simon I needed to get the hell out of Big City. The only reason I was living in this American wasteland was because my mother insisted I reconcile with my estranged father. That the idea came to her while drunk on the French bubbly should have been my sign to stay right where I belonged. Anywhere but here. Certainly somewhere more fabulous. When an international job opportunity arises, I jump on board. It’s just a bonus that I’ll be traveling with the epitome of tall, dark, and handsome. Make that muscular, morally gray, and hopefully, my next conquest. What’s a casual fling between coworkers, after all? I’m ready for my next big adventure—far from Big City—so if whatever we’re up to is vaguely illegal, I’ll simply turn the other cheek. It’s not like some superhero is going to swoop in and stop a couple of humans like us. Wolfgang I may have orchestrated my villainous parents’ deaths, but that doesn’t mean the crushing weight of my responsibilities is easy to bear. My sister was the only one of my siblings who knew how badly they treated me. The only one I told how much I despise my powers. Now she’s on the run—leaving me to carry this alone. But then I meet him. I may have hired Simon Alarie as my assistant, but it’s instantly apparent he’s much more than that. He’s not only intelligent and business savvy, but fiercely loyal, and the tastiest—most forbidden—little thing I’ve ever seen. Nothing can come of it. Because if I touch him, he dies. That doesn’t stop me from claiming him as mine. Whether or not this normie knows it, every inch of him—every breath he takes—belongs to me. And anyone who thinks otherwise will meet the Hand of Death. CONTENT WARNINGS: violent battle scenes and gore, life-threatening situations and death, mentions of past parental abuse (including superpowered abuse), and sexual assault (on page). TROPES: Achillian romance, anal, rimming, frotting, (debatable) felching, fated mates, hurt/comfort, size difference, leather kink, exorbitant gifts (bordering on financial domination), biting, marking, bruising, hand necklaces, primal play, spit kink, consensual non-consent, and two psychopaths in love. So...What Are You Into? Josh: "Goliathette" by Crime In Stereo Katie: The Midnight Club (Netflix) Carl: Welcome to Detroit, Jason Benetti! "Conscious Club" by Vulfpeck "X-Men Theme Redux" by Ron Wasserman Author's Website Our Linktree Join Our Discord! Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

With Spooky Smuttober in the rear view, Smutco Industries is jumping right into Horny Holidays, and they're getting things started with Frostbitten by Violet Taylor! Maybe you've lusted after a snowman or two, but you've never been thirsty for a snowman like Frost! Book Description The stories of Jack Frost meet the tales of Persephone and Hades in this steamy reimagining! When Mara falls into a mysterious pool at the base of a mountain cave, she finds herself far from home, and in the frozen wastelands of the underworld. A monster rules this place. He craves her warmth and flesh, and will do anything to keep her in his icy realm. As her feelings begin to change, she is forced to choose between the life she had up above, or the one being offered to her down below. As time passes by it becomes clear that neither may be a choice. Can she save herself and those she loves before it’s too late? Frost has waited centuries for a willing vessel to fall through the pool above. When a living woman lands in his domain, things take an unexpected turn. His cold and loveless kingdom is filled with a heat he could never imagine while Mara is there, and feelings he didn’t believe he could possess. He wants to keep her in his kingdom of ice. But the clock is ticking up above. Can he stop the inevitable from taking Mara away from him? Or will he lose the only warmth his heart has ever known? CONTENT WARNING: dubious consent, restraints, spanking, brief descriptions of physical trauma and injury (caused by a natural disaster). So...What Are You Into? Katie: Vampire Survivors Carl: Control Author's Website Our Linktree Join Our Discord! Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

We're closing out our first annual Spooky Smuttober with a WORLD PREMIERE EVENT! This week we are covering Till Death Do Us Part by RE Johnson, which is set to release on Halloween! This is by far the darkest book that we have ever covered on the show, but RE managed to turn Katie on LET ME FINISH...to the joys of dark romance. This is a VERY dark romance book, and we discuss the following trigger warnings in the episode. Please review the "Content Warning" section below before listening. Book Description When you find out your new husband has been alive for centuries unaliving people, you should probably run. But I've always identified as the final girl, and I'm looking to woo myself a monster.Getting engaged is a big deal in my family, and I'm only doing it because my dad insisted. Big money has big responsibilities.And, you know, I'm willing to keep up appearances to get them off my back so I can focus on more important things- namely ridding this planet of some scum.The guy's hot, has a huge, spooky mansion, and keeps to himself. So what's the harm in playing along?Trouble is I had no idea when we said "till death do us part," he'd take it so literally.Good thing I'm not your typical bride. CONTENT WARNING: graphic violence, graphic sex, graphic sexual violence, graphically violent sex, sexual assault, non-consensual sex, dubious consent, blood and gore, Saw-like torture elements, Bluebeard-inspired wife-murder, religious extremism, religious trauma, murder of religious authority, fratricide, matricide, magical uterine ablation for the purposes of sterilization, extreme monster f***ing, BDSM, pain play, knife play, cum/saliva/blood play, tail restraint, tail play, and a very creative monster d*ck. So...What Are You Into? Katie: Totally Killer Carl: Shoresy Season 2 Author's Website Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

For our second author profile, we sat down and chatted with Gwendolyn Harper! We discussed the bleak horniness of her Zombie Apocalypse Romance series, her latest release and its upcoming follow-up (Black and Silver and Green and Gold, respectively), and the horrors of your mom wanting to read the smutty book that you wrote! Gwendolyn's Amazon Author Profile Follow Gwendolyn on TikTok and Instagram Listen to The Speakeasy with Lauren and Eric Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

If you were worried that there wasn't enough smut in our Spooky Smuttober, please allow Latrexa Nova's Monster Mash to disabuse you of that foolish notion! This week Katie and Carl are joined by actor/comedian Erin Callahan, and none of them are truly prepared for the insane and sexy yarn spun by Latrexa! Book Description I was decorating my house on Halloween nightWhen my eyes beheld an eerily sexy sightFor my monsters decorations were aroused and began to riseAnd suddenly, to my surpriseWe all mashed. With monsters I mashed.Who'd have thought monsters would trick or treat me so well? Soon I'm being passed around like a party favor. They creep the excitement--and me--coming. That is, until the one person I forgot to invite shows up.The Devil is in the details, and he's intent on teaching me a lesson about forgetting him.I may be the witch, but all these monsters have me under their spell, showing me I'm bone to be wild.Monster Mash is a scorching hot erotic merry-go-round of classic Halloween monsters with very explicit sex scenes, a lust for the macabre, and a witch who is desperate to enjoy Halloween to the fullest. CONTENT WARNING: magic and the use of magic, sentient objects, multiple partners, a massive orgy, cum-play, pain-play, flogging, BDSM, emission control, and bukkake. Author's Website Our Linktree Follow Erin on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok! So...What Are You Into? Erin: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Katie: HALLOWEEN!!! Carl: Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

Spooky Smuttober shambles on as Katie and Carl fortify their emotional fortresses against the zombie nightmare of Blood Moon by Gwendolyn Harper! Katie loved Book 1 in the Zombie Apocalypse Romance series so much that we had to dig up Book 2 for our October smut-tacular! Book Description When the apocalypse hit and Caitlin Meadows found herself surviving on the run with Jack Booker, she never expected they'd last a week without tearing each other's heads off, let alone that they'd fall for one another. But now she can't imagine a life without him, and she's willing to do whatever it takes to keep her lover alive in a zombie infested world. In an attempt to find more of their friends, Caitlin and Booker must traverse a bleak landscape in search of a secretive group of survivors who may hold the answers they need. But threats of the undead, desperate scavengers, and illness aren't the only dangers in this new, brutal reality. The clock is ticking. Will their time run out? So...What Are You Into? Katie: "Camp" by Childish Gambino Carl: Immaculate Grid Get Yourself a Glove Mallet! Gwendolyn on TikTok Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org

It's week two of Spooky Smuttober here at Smutco Industries, and this week we're celebrating with Hallows Grove by Lee Jacquot! Tune in to find out if this week's MMC can redeem himself in Carl's eyes after he (allegedly) sullies an entire batch of Clearly Canadians with his evil expectorations. CONTENT WARNING: bullying, practical jokes, jump scares, fear play, and a dash of (almost) exhibitionism. Book Description My best friend’s brother is the most infuriating person to walk this planet.Since the day I met him, he’s made it his mission in life to make mine hell. If he’s not hiding behind the nearest dark corner, he's plotting his next trick.That’s Dorian Davis, and nothing about him has changed in the two decades that I’ve known him.I should be used to it by now. Immune to his antics. I even considered myself prepared when his sister coerced us into helping her host a Halloween party for her company.I wasn’t.Turns out, Dorian didn’t want to scare me. He wanted to hear me scream.To hear me beg.He wanted to show me that everything I thought I knew was wrong, and that everything I thought I wanted wasn’t enough.Maybe if I weren’t wearing a maid outfit, playing a real-life murder mystery game, and running through a hedge maze for my life, I’d appreciate the sentiment. But I’m currently doing all of those things, and if he catches me, I don’t think I’ll survive.Because as he said... this isn’t a game anymore. So...What Are You Into? Katie: seeing friends after a long time and joyful, happy teenage experiences! Carl: "After Destruction" by Descartes a Kant Author's Website Our Linktree Music: "Nostalgia" by Makaih Beats www.freemusicarchive.org