September 2023
Coming to Orlando on September 21st – September 24th, 2023 is the largest educational event for romance authors and readers you have ever seen. This multi day event will be filled with workshops, panels, demonstrations all about Kink and BDSM. Our goal is to bring together the lovers of all things smutty, in a safe and loving environment to learn from each other and share what we know.
Schedule of Events
Thursday, September 21st
5:00 PM Happy Hour and Meet Up
Friday, September 22nd
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks: USA Today Best-Selling Author Nikki Rome, Director of Smut Lovers: The Conference
9:10 AM – 9:30 AM Keynote Speaker: Whitni Miller, Pleasure Coach and Owner of BDEmoves
9:30 AM – 10:15 AM Reality vs. Fiction Panel: Scene Set Up, Consent, Before Care, After Care and other things that are different in fiction than they are in real life.
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM BDSM 101: Presented by The Woodshed Orlando
Lunch on your own
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM Rope Basics Demonstration: Presented by The Woodshed Orlando
1:30 PM – 2:15 PM The Art of the Mindfuck: Presented by NY Times Best Selling Author and Kink Educator, Eden Bradley and USA Today Best-Selling Author, Shane Starrett
2:30 PM – 3:15 PM Knife Play, Blood Play, Needles, Sharps and other high-risk kinks – Presented by Princess Rara of The Pink Kink Podcast and The Pink Kink Institute
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM Sub Panel: Littles, Critters, Subspace, and Acts of Service
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Roundtables: Sex Workers, Sadists, BDSM Dungeons: Reality vs. Fantasy, Writing Alpha’s in PNR, Masochists, Polyam, Inclusion in Writing Kink, Erotic Hypnosis, Writing Realistic Kink When You Have None
Saturday, September 23rd
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Author Only Panel, Writing Kink & BDSM
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Author Only Panel, Marketing Kink & BDSM
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM VIP Reader Entrance to Book Signing Event
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Book Signing Event
7:00 PM Closing Ceremonies, Dark Romance All Black Party and Performance
Sunday, September 24th
9:00 AM Author/Influencer Farwell Breakfast
We are proud to announce our partnership with The Woodshed Orlando, Orlando’s Premier Playspace for many of our educational needs.
Whitni Miller is a sex educator and pleasure coach specializing in queer sex and relational communication. She uses Instagram and TikTok to disseminate pleasure centered, sex education to the general population. Additionally, she offers coaching 1:1 or couples to help reach their pleasure goals.
To Whitni, pleasure is not one size fits all. She sees pleasure as a subjective experience that can only be defined by the individual. Her main goal in working with clients is to help them find their way home to themselves. Because truth is something that can only be defined within.
Whitni is trauma-informed, kink-informed, and utilizes her yoga philosophy background to facilitate healing that empowers the client to own their pleasure.
Links: patreon.com/bdemoves
Instagram: bde.moves
TikTok: bdemoves
Additional Presenters…
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“Why are you so determined to keep your wild silently inside you? Let it breathe. Give it a voice. Let it roll out of you on the wide open waves. Set it free.”
— Jeanette LeBlanc, “Raging Rhetoric”