Smart Podcast, Trashy Books: A Romance Novel Podcast: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Often has guests

60% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

76 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Weekly+

342 episodes · last 2026-08-28

Language

English

The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.

Where it's from

Not established

No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.

Reach

85

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.

Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

What the show says about itself

Each week on Smart Podcast, Trashy Books, Sarah Wendell interviews authors, readers, reviewers, bloggers, publishing professionals, editors, and librarians about romance novels, which are among the most popular genres in fiction worldwide. Popular guests include: Ilona Andrews, Robin Bradford, NPR's Barrie Hardymon, Chuck Tingle, Sarah J. Maas, and Rachel Aaron. Amanda Diehl, co-pilot of the SS Smart Bitches, makes regular appearances with maximum silliness, especially during our Romantic Times Rewind episodes, where we take a look at old issues of Romantic Times Magazine (1981-2018). Frequent

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

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731. RT Rewind: July 1992 Reviews - The 100th Issue Special!
730. Still the Luckiest Lady in London with Sherry Thomas
729. RT Rewind: March 2009 Ads & Features
728. The Parisian Heist with Jo Piazza

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