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Alex Vance in Amsterdam, 2007

Alex Vance, aka Osfer, is a furry author, founder of the Bad Dog Books anthropomorphic publishing house and the furry fiction archive FurRag.

Alex has been in the furry fandom since early 1999, originally active in the FurNation talker until its closure, then transitioning to the Yiffnet channel to which most of the original FurNation talker population had moved.

Later he began to frequent Tapestries MUCK where he would develop several characters which later found their way into the very long and as yet unfinished serial Maranatha.

Bad Dog Books and FurRag

Logo designed by Kamui

In 2005, his frustration at the death of furry fiction periodicals of significance led him to found a publishing operation and its flagship product, the periodical erotic furry fiction anthology FANG, and later that year, with the aid of a friend, set up a furry fiction archive intended as a more general-purpose counterpart to Yiffstar. Yiffstar's admin Toumal provided some coding assistance.

RSI

In early 2006, he began suffering from repetitive strain injury, causing him pain in his fingers which required him to substantially moderate his typing. He announced his intention to put FANG on indefinite hiatus in order to let his fingers heal. With the help of Ben Goodridge, he founded Bad Dog Books in July 2006 and resumed development of FANG, which also made its publishing services available to third-party authors interested in bringing their works to print.

Bibliography

Until the deterioration of his fingers, Alex was an avid writer. Between 2004 and 2005, he wrote nineteen chapters of a serial story called Maranatha, totalling nearly two hundred thousand words. Besides occasionally contributing stories of his own to FANG, his fiction has appeared in FurNation Magazine issues 9 & 10 and Heat volume 4 from Sofawolf Press. His new graphic novel Heathen City, illustrated by Ayato, Distasty, Krahnos, Charha and Fel, is scheduled for release on June 26 2008, to coincide with Anthrocon.

Appearances

So far, Alex has attended Further Confusion in January of 2008, where he gave a series of four writing panels, continuing the Bad Dog Boot Camp panel started by Ben Goodridge at Anthrocon '07.

External links

This person is a WikiFur user: Osfer's user page Osfer's talk page

• Bad Dog Books, home of FANG, the FANG Presents line of novels and Bad Dog Books' publishing services.
• Heathen City homepage
• FurRag Fiction Archive
• Osfer's writings on VCL
• Osfer's writings on AnthroArchives
• Osfer's writings on Yiffstar
• Heat Volume 4
• FurNation Magazine 9